{"id":14,"date":"2020-05-08T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T03:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/?p=14"},"modified":"2020-07-02T10:18:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T22:18:30","slug":"towards-greater-interactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/towards-greater-interactivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards greater interactivity in large lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a couple of semesters teaching our very large introductory statistics course, I was given the &#8220;privilege&#8221; of teaching in the Fisher &amp; Paykel lecture theatre &#8211; which holds over 600 students. I quickly realised I needed a way to interact with all these hundreds of students in such a large space!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/f-p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/f-p.jpg 923w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/f-p-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/f-p-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><figcaption>The Fisher &amp; Paykel lecture theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I found I could set a discussion-based problem and that one loop around the lecture theatre, stopping in to listen and participate in a few conversations, was a good amount of time to give students to engage. To encourage contributions, I would summarise one conversation (yes, a sample of one!) and then target another group I had engaged with &#8220;on my travels&#8221; to share what they had discussed in front of the whole lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This approach worked well for encouraging discussion in such a large teaching space but I wanted more! We already used the &#8220;clicker&#8221; system Quizdom, but I wanted to make more use of student&#8217;s mobile phones and devices. I wanted them interacting with each other and with me. And I wanted a system to facilitate these interactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first &#8220;large scale interactive&#8221; involved getting students to tap their phones as many times as they could during one minute, using an app I developed. My initial approach for encouraging large-scale interactivity is shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/teaching_symposium_2017_latest.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/teaching_symposium_2017_latest.png 960w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/teaching_symposium_2017_latest-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/teaching_symposium_2017_latest-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Initial approach for encouraging large-scale interactivity<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I shared my ideas and experimentation with interactives at Department of Statistics (University of Auckland) teaching symposium in September 2017. The video below is a screen recording of the talk and covers the foundational ideas for the project, shows an example of a large scale interactive, and includes department discussion about these ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Towards greater interactivity in large lectures - Anna Fergusson (2017)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bj4oqH0PAW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some foundational ideas for the &#8220;Go big or go home&#8221; project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teaching.statistics-is-awesome.org\/go-big-or-go-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}