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Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Creating Active Learning Environments

By: Derek Bruff

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Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Creating Active Learning Environments

By: Derek Bruff

There is a need in the higher education arena for a book that responds to the need for using technology in a classroom of tech-savvy students. This book is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines (with a discipline index). The book also incorporates results from research on the effectiveness of the technology for teaching. Written for instructional designers and re-designers as well as faculty across disciplines. A must-read for anyone interested in interactive teaching and the use of clickers. This book draws on the experiences of countless instructors across a wide range of disciplines to provide both novice and experienced teachers with practical advice on how to make classes more fun and more effective.”--Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University, and author, Peer Instruction: A User’s Manual “Those who come to this book needing practical advice on using ‘clickers’ in the classroom will be richly rewarded: with case studies, a refreshing historical perspective, and much pedagogical ingenuity. Those who seek a deep, thoughtful examination of strategies for active learning will find that here as well—in abundance. Dr. Bruff achieves a marvelous synthesis of the pragmatic and the philosophical that will be useful far beyond the life span of any single technology.” --Gardner Campbell, Director, Academy for Teaching and Learning, and Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Learning, Honors College, Baylor University

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John Wiley & Sons

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ISBN 10

0470596619

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9780470596616

Edge of England

Landfall in Lincolnshire

By: Derek Turner

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Edge of England

Landfall in Lincolnshire

By: Derek Turner

Lincolnshire is England’s second-largest county–and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to Brexit, this marginal county is central to England’s identity. Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and reformers–Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John Wesley–as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have been inspired–including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and Tennyson–while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest, from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the little-known land itself–an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.

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Hurst Publishers

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1787388875

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9781787388871

In the Lion's Mouth

Hood's Tragic Retreat from Nashville, 1864

By: Derek Smith

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In the Lion's Mouth

Hood's Tragic Retreat from Nashville, 1864

By: Derek Smith

Spellbinding account of the Confederates' retreat after their crushing defeat at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.

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370

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Stackpole Books

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0811744965

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9780811744966

Ireland for Kids

By: Derek MacKenzie-Hook

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Ireland for Kids

By: Derek MacKenzie-Hook

This guide book is designed to help visitors make the most of all that Ireland has to offer children, with ideas for the family's free time. Covering every part of the country, it contains sections on where to eat and stay, how to get there, and what not to miss. All sorts of sights and experiences are included such as: Clara Lara Fun Park in the Wicklow Mountains with the largest aqua slide in Ireland; Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge which crosses an 80-foot gorge; and the famous Giant's Causeway with its legendary tales.

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Mainstream Publishing Company

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1851589201

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9781851589203

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Creating Active Learning Environments

By: Derek Bruff

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Creating Active Learning Environments

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Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Edge of England

Edge of England

In the Lion's Mouth

In the Lion's Mouth

Ireland for Kids

Ireland for Kids

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

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