[Building Sakai] rudimentary clicker device using report in email archive

[Matthew Jones]

I was talking with Botimer, and it seemed like you might have better
luck with SMS than with email via cell phone. You'd have to do a
pretty decent extension to email archive to make the result reporting
useful.

I know that UCT had worked on an SMS tool for Sakai but didn't know
they had a Questions and Answers component. It seems like a slight
modification of this might better fit your needs than email archive
would.

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SMS/Home
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QNA/Home

You could write a new tool/extension that could do it via email but it
seems like it would be more useful at that point to have students
either buy $30 clickers to interface with your clicker system or
$150-$200 ipod touches/netbooks to interact with a simple webpage (or
https://www.lecturetools.com/) which could provide them feedback.

-Matthew

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Luke Fernandez<luke.fernandez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone in the Sakai community thinking of ways that the email
> archive could be leveraged as a rudimentary clicker device?
>
> I'm thinking:
>
> 1) In class instructor displays a poll question. For example it could
> be the following:
>
> I am most concerned about:
> a) Unemployment
> b) National security
> c) Health care reform
> d) National Debt
>
> 2) After displaying the question the instructor instructs students to
> use their cell phones to email the course site with an email
> indicating their answer.  For example, a student is worried they won't
> get a job when they graduate.  So using their cell phone they email
> the site "Sociology1100 at sakai.weber.edu" with an email message with
> the following letter in the body of the email: "a"
>
> 3) Within the email archive tool the instructor runs a report that
> parses through the emails that were received in the last couple of
> minutes and then displays the distribution of answers.
>
> I didn't find anything with the keyword "Clickers" in Jira.  But maybe
> something already exists?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luke
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