[nabs-l] I clicker

bookwormahb at earthlink.net bookwormahb at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 10 23:38:11 UTC 2011


If these are touch screen devices where you type the letter of your answer, 
how are they accessible? If you have a classmate help you, I'm surprised the 
professor lets the classmate see your answers.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 3:47 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I clicker

Is that like the Active Expression remote that I use in school,
where the teacher puts a multiple-choice question on the board
and you type in your answer on the remote and hit send? For
fill-in-the-blank or short answers, you can also text in your
answer, like you're texting on a phone.  It's part of the
Permethian Education software.  Is the iClicker something like
that?

Chris

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----- Original Message -----
From: Kirt Manwaring <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
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Date sent: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:52:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I clicker

For me it was multiple-choice quizzes in class.

On 6/2/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
wrote:
Are these used to give answers for tests?  Or just assignments?
Ashley

-----Original Message-----
From: Kirt Manwaring
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 12:14 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I clicker

Darian,
   I'd echo what Joseph said-I had to use them a lot last year.
It's
easier just to have a sighted friend help set up the frequency
and,
when in a class, just ask the person next to you if the iclicker
sent
the answer ok or, in some cases, they may have to read the
questions
if the instructor's lazy like that.  But from my experience,
people in
classes are usually cool with that sort of thing...I've made
some new
friends that way.  *grin*
   Warmly,
Kirt

On 6/2/11, Joseph C.  Lininger <jbahm at pcdesk.net> wrote:
I have used one.  The device itself is mostly useable.  It has 5
buttons
labeled A through E, and a power button.  What it's generally
used for
are in class questions and that sort of thing.

There are a couple things that can be difficult.  Setting the
frequency
the device communicates on requires you look at the lights on
the
device, but a person could just memorize the sequence or else
have
someone help them do it.  It's not something you have to do
often, and I
could talk a person through setting the right frequency without
sight if
necessary since I've done it myself a time or ten.

The only other potential difficulty would be that the device
indicates a
successful transmission with a green light and an unsuccessful
one with
a blinking red light.  That may or may not be a problem for your
friend
depending on the situation.  Usually the unsuccessful
transmission thing
doesn't happen if the device is set to the right frequency and
registered with the base the instructor is using, and the
instructor has
the base set up to receive transmissions.
--
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." George E.  P.  Box
Joseph C.  Lininger, <jbahm at pcdesk.net

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