I listen to a couple of technology podcasts on a fairly regular basis. One of my favorites is Leo LaPorte's Tech Guy. On my way back from Albany tonight I was listening to a recent broadcast on my Droid and heard about Pupil Picker a program that according to one website, " is a simple but very powerful app that can be used by any teacher, kindergarten through college to increase student engagement and provides valuable feedback.
Pupil Picker uses your iPhone's Address Book to randomly select students while you ask your students questions or check answers. You then can record correct and incorrect responses. After you have finished the lesson you can quickly send yourself an e-mail to view the results for later use.
Pupil Picker uses your iPhone's Address Book to randomly select students while you ask your students questions or check answers. You then can record correct and incorrect responses. After you have finished the lesson you can quickly send yourself an e-mail to view the results for later use.
Pupil Picker will dramatically increase your students' engagement because they know that they may be called on at any time and you are recording their responses. Use the Student Repeat setting to control how quickly a student can be called on again. Set all the way to the right and every student will be called on before any students are repeated. Pull it all the way back to the left so that a student can be called at any time. Even if he/she was just called. I like to set it in the middle to keep the students on their toes"
I can't really vouch for it because I have never used it but I was intrigued by the concept. It is also has a great backstory of how the program was developed. The Kindergarten teacher who developed it taught himself programing in a short amount of time and then created the program. Let me know if you use it and and how you like it.
I can't really vouch for it because I have never used it but I was intrigued by the concept. It is also has a great backstory of how the program was developed. The Kindergarten teacher who developed it taught himself programing in a short amount of time and then created the program. Let me know if you use it and and how you like it.
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