Team building often gets neglected – even in larger organizations. The usual perception is that team building can only happen one time per month when our employees are taken out for a nice dinner or a day of fun.
Student engagement is a priority for teachers who work hard to enrich the lives of their students through high-quality education. Today’s children have been raised with technology in all aspects of their lives, and the use of student response systems in the classroom can enhance learning and student engagement while erasing issues of peer pressure, shyness or embarrassment.
We don’t often think twice about the check-in process when organizing an event, do we? It’s all about coming up with ways to engage the audience, setting up the Wi-Fi connection, goodie bags, big screen and many other issues that seem more essential.
How important is the check-in process at events, though? Very.
Employee training is one of the most essential aspects of running a business. While companies spend valuable time training employees, studies show that employees are more disengaged than ever before.
The good news is that there are several things that companies can do to turn disengaged employees around; one is find ways to increase real and perceived value through training programs that are effective and engaging. This is one area that technology for education (i.e. audience response system) can help.
As a teacher or trainer, you often have a classroom full of students or trainees who you need to be ‘on the same page’ with. The problem is that many times, you’re on page 1, while some of the adventurous ones are already on page 3. Another time, you’re way ahead on page 7, while some people are lagging behind on #4.
We have been to a few events and have heard our technology being called a variety of different names. So we thought that these common misconceptions and funny terms that people use, would make for a great learning lesson.
The traditional approach to learning what is on the minds of trade show or conference attendee is to simply ask them. Audience response systems make it possible to ask these questions and gather the answers from large groups while sharing the responses.
Sean McPeak, Chief Executive Officer for Meridia Interactive Solutions, states that his company’s products “give our clients, across varying industries, a way to effectively gauge the attitudes and/or knowledge of their stakeholders. Audience response polling presents a series of questions to groups of individuals which profile issues that are both relevant and important to them personally and as an industry as a whole.”
