I am in the middle (well, not true actually… at the start of) writing an article on the use of electronic voting systems for use in large undergraduate lectures. There’s a ton of stuff out there at the moment about the application of this type of technique in HE.
Steve Draper’s page has a ton of information on it. Everytime I go there I find I read something new. I think I will just use his references page as my one reference….. http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/ Plus it has a photo of him and Jim Boyle with a lobster….
I came across a useful article from Falkirk council on the various hardware that is available from Andy Watson’s edublog: http://andywatson.edublogs.org/2006/03/27/voting-systems/
So why did I bother starting this blog?
Well, for a start, I have a web page that is massively out of date that I just never seem to get arond to updating these days. So eventually, this might just supercede this…. who knows…
If you want to see just how bad that is, you can find it …. http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~spb01, though I cannot imagine why you would.
I also wanted somewhere to be able to put some thoughts, links, ideas and conversations (… hmm, that relies on you, I suppose) regarding this part of my job.
I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University in Edinburgh. I teach a large first year undergraduate course, the development of which is one of the main reasons for wanting to create this blog.
I am getting slightly better pictures taken as time goes on (matter of opinion: this one has been described as making me look “like a psychopath”)
Pyscho or no, it is now all over everywhere because of this http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/060804chancellorawards.html
