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Greetings!
Well, hopefully your classroom has settled into some form of normalcy.
One of the ever growing popular uses of CPS that I've seen in training recently is the use of CPS for bell ringers or bell work. Imagine your classroom as students walk into the room, pick up a remote. When the bell rings, they immediately get started on 3-5 CPS questions while you, the teacher, take care of your administrative duties.
What are those questions the students are working on? The could be review from last nights homework, anticipatory set questions for the day's lesson, or they could even be a standards practice that you do 2-3 times per week to help check where your students need more preparation for upcoming assessments.
I've seen lots of creative ideas for using clickers in the classroom as I've traveled throughout Kansas and Nebraska in the last month, and I would love to hear your ideas as well. Please share any ideas you may have on our website at www.engaging-technologies.com.
I hope your school year is "clickin" right along! Let us know how we can be of help to make your classroom a success.
Sincerely,
Dustin Frank
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Get Back to School Pricing Before It's Gone!
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 Buy one 'Back to School Package' -- ExamView, Learning Series, Workspace, an Interwrite Pad and 32-pad CPS RF for $2495, or 32-pad CPS IR for $1495. Save up to $1400!
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Win an eInstruction Makeover!
 Collaborate with your class to produce a music video demonstrating how technology can and is being used in the classroom
and you can win an eI Makeover for your classroom worth over $25,000.
Visit www.eimakeover.com to check
out the details, so that you are ready for the start of this contest on September 15th! While you're there, you can view last year's winning videos, which are SUPER! The K-5 winner had me a little teary-eyed, the 9-12 winner had me laughing out loud, and the 6-8 winner had me singing along!
Feel free to download this printable flyer to share with your staff or hang in your teachers' lounge!
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Grant & Funding Opportunities Available
We've added some great opportunities to our website for grants and funding. Included are details about the new eInstruction Makeover competition and the Best Buy Teach Awards. The deadline for the Best Buy Teach Awards is October 12, 2008, so print your application today!
Also included in our grants opportunities is a link to Grant Wrangler, a website that provides to links to hundreds of K-12 grant opportunities. There are several whose application deadline is coming up soon, so check it out!
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Big Whopper Liar Day
You have to admit, there are some really fun "special holidays" that can make for a great fun at school. Big Whopper Liar Day is definitely one of them! No, we're not encouraging lying. However, Big Whopper Liar Day is "officially observed" on September 20th, and what a better way to "officially observe" this day than to play a Big Whopper Liar clicker game!
You might have heard of the game 2 Truths and a Lie, a very fun game often used as an icebreaker or as a "get acquainted" game. In fact, as our eInstruction colleague Amy Jones details on her blog, The Clicker Chronicles, it is a great game to play with clickers in the beginning days of school. However, Two Truths and a Lie (or the Big Whopper Liar game, as we like to call it) is a great review game for any topic that you are covering.
The Big Whopper Liar Game essentially requires students to review information in their notes or that they remember from the unit and come up with their own True/False questions. They must come up with 2 truths and 1 lie.
If you don't trust the students to make up the questions, you can already have prepared the questions in advance. Using verbal mode, students choose A, B, or C as the lie.
This isn't a game to play everyday, but it is a fun change of pace and most definitely a fantastic way to observe Big Whopper Liar Day on September 20th!
Check out more clicker review game ideas like one here.
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