{"id":1427,"date":"2003-09-13T10:24:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T14:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/13\/handhelds-replacing-upheld-hands\/"},"modified":"2003-09-13T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T14:24:48","slug":"handhelds-replacing-upheld-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/13\/handhelds-replacing-upheld-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Handhelds Replacing Upheld Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1085'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest innovation on college campuses is the use of small handheld Personal Response System transmitters.  Especially popular at State schools with large-enrollment classes &#8211; where it is hard for a professor or TA to keep track of hundreds of undergraduates &#8211; the devices can take attendance electronically, allow students to request the floor for questions or comments, and measure audience interest.  Especially useful, according to professors &#8211; sprinkling their lectures with multiple-choice questions students must answer via PRS.  The results appear instantly on the professors laptop, telling her what percentage of the class &#8220;gets it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2003\/09\/13\/on_campuses_handhelds_replacing_raised_hands\/\">from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest innovation on college campuses is the use of small handheld Personal Response System transmitters. Especially popular at State schools with large-enrollment classes &#8211; where it is hard for a professor or TA to keep track of hundreds of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/13\/handhelds-replacing-upheld-hands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}