[nabs-l] Animal observation and experiment for biology class

[Suzanne Germano]

Our clicker questions are every lecture and count toward our grade. She has
read the questions out loud but quickly and they are biology genetics stuff
so I usually need to reread and make sure I have all the data right before
doing my punnet squares or come up with the answer.

Most of the time the questions were not super long so I had time to reread
and calculate.

There have been several times I enter my answer and my screen says change
channel? I need to get out magnifier which takes a few seconds to turn on
then go through the menu on the clicker o make sure the channel is still
right, get back to the place ot answer then answer. The channel is often
wrong because it took my answer entry as my input for new channel.

I have 2 days with no answers registered when got all four each day correct.


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 2:26 PM, Elizabeth Mohnke <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Suzanne,
>
> I am not sure if each college or university uses the clicker questions in
> the same manner, but I can describe how I have been able to use them while
> attending a community college.
>
> The professor who uses the clicker questions only uses them for review
> questions and poll questions. Therefore, if a student is not able to
> participate, or does not wish to participate, it does not effect their
> grade.
>
> In the past, the professor handed out the clickers during class. They were
> not all that complicated as they had a layout similar to a telephone
> keypad. However, this semester students can use either a cell phone to text
> the answer, or log into the survey website with their laptop computers.
>
> In either case, the professor reads both the question and the answers
> aloud so I can follow along with what the rest of the class is doing. When
> the professor used the clickers, all I had to do was press the button that
> corresponded with the answer while pointing it in the direction of my
> professor.
>
> I do not know if every school uses the clickers in this same manner, but
> this is how I was able to deal with the situation. Alternative methods may
> be to ask a student sitting next to you to read the question and the
> answers, or perhaps a reader from the disabilities office if they provide
> such a service.
>
> Even though I have had usable vision for most of my life, I have found
> non-visual techniques to be the most effective and efficient for me.
> Perhaps you may wish to give some of them a try.
>
> Warm regards,
> Elizabeth
>
> ------------------------------**--------------------
> From: "Suzanne Germano" <sgermano at asu.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 4:03 PM
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> Subject: [nabs-l] Animal observation and experiment for biology class
>
>  I am taking general biology as a lab science requirement. We have to
>> observe an animal then design and experiment and then perform the
>> experiment. An example that one person is doing is what percentage of time
>> do duck go in the water based on temperature. We cannot do pets.
>>
>> I don't have people sitting around doing nothing waiting drive me
>> somewhere
>> and to be my eyes and observe and animal several times.
>>
>> Have any of you had to do something like this? What did you find the best
>> solution to be?
>>
>> Also clicker questions. How do you deal with them? I use a cctv to see the
>> board and even with that I can't read long questions fast enough. And
>> there
>> have been several times my clicker goes into change channel mode when I
>> select an answer. I can't read the clicker display or the buttons. I have
>> to get out my hand held cctv to read the screen and get it out of change
>> channel mode by the time I fix it time is up.
>>
>> Suzanne
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