InterWrite Schoolpad and TurningPoint System

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InterWrite SchoolpadandTurningPoint System
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• Lynnie Brooke Taylor
• Bryan County Elementary

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What is it?
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• Bluetooth wireless device that enables you to
  teach anywhere in the classroom... or pass it to
  a student and let them contribute from their
  desk. 
• Use with to project computer images on any
  surface to create an interactive whiteboard. 
• InterWrite Software included to make your lessons
  fully interactive. 

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InterWrite Schoolpad Uses
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• Demonstration
• Can enhance any lesson
• Display and add to any created text
• Add information to textbook scanned images
• Any website can become interactive
• Use with review games
• Works well with TurningPoint System

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TurningPoint System
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• Transforms PowerPoint into a data collection and
  assessment tool through the use of the
  interactivity keypad technology
• Ask any question, get immediate responses
• Use toolbar button to view data in MS Excel or
  MS Word

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TurningPoint Uses
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• Create a dynamic, interactive, classroom
  student response system
• Identify and confirm student understanding of
  curriculum 
• Increase student attentiveness and comprehension
• Seamlessly combine instruction with student
  assessment
• Track individual classroom composite and student
  results

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Getting Started with TurningPoint

• Create/open existing PowerPoint presentation
• Create new question slide with Insert Slide
  button on TurningPoint toolbar
• Choose type of slide (most frequently use is
  Generic Slide)

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Getting Started with TurningPoint

• Format slide to fit needs
• After creating slide, choose eyeglasses icon
  from TurningPoint toolbar
• Click on slide with question
• Click on correct answer
• Right-click on Value and choose
• Correct

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Getting Started with TurningPoint

• Click on Participants on TurningPoint toolbar
• Choose Creates Participant List
• Branches of Government BrainPop

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Group Response Session

• Open the PowerPoint presentation
• Click on No Participant List and choose your
  class from the pull-down menu
• Pass out response keypads according to each
  students assigned number
• Begin presentation and students
• respond by pressing the answer of
  choice when a question is asked

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After Response Session

• Collect keypads in order
• Choose graph icon from TurningPoint toolbar
• Select desired report (most often
  Correct/Incorrect Response report)
• View and print report for grades

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Tips

• Plan ahead
• Pass out keypads when ready to use and take up
  after assessment
• Fully exit program after each use
• Read each question and response aloud as they are
  presented for quicker response time
• Give correct response after response time is up

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Tips

• Be sure each student knows personal number
• Stress importance of learning environment
• Hang response sensor in central location in
  classroom
• Select the Print Area on the report you wish to
  print

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In Our Room
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• Weekly spelling test
• Vocabulary quizzes
• Multiple choice test
• Review Questions

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References
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• http//www.gtcocalcomp.com/interwriteschoolpad.htm
  
• On-line tutorials, downloadable guides, and
  answers to frequently asked questions
• www.turningrechnologies.com
• Answers to frequently asked questions, has
  downloadable video demonstrations and user
  guides, shares techniques and tips for use
• http//www.mightycoach.com/articles/ powerpoint/
• Interactive tutorial for creating a PowerPoint
  presentation