Turn your lectures into an interactive learning environment that promotes conceptual understanding

Available exclusively for higher education from our partnership with Turning Technologies, JoinIn™ is the easiest way to turn your lecture hall into a personal, fully interactive experience for your students! JoinIn on TurningPoint is simply the easiest, most powerful, completely interactive Microsoft® PowerPoint® tool available today. By using JoinIn, you can pose text-specific questions to a large group, gather results, and display students’ answers seamlessly within the PowerPoint slides of your own lecture—in conjunction with the “clicker” hardware of your choice. JoinIn is now being used at many universities across the U.S., including Notre Dame University, Columbia Medical School, and Ohio State University.

Enhance how your students interact with you, your lecture, and each other
JoinIn gives you the ability to reach out to all of your students—even in 400- to 800-seat lecture halls—because they become actively engaged in the learning experience. Whether they are involved in confidential peer reviews or polls or group activities or are taking part in question-and-answer sessions, quizzes, or tests, students become active participants rather than passive recipients of lecture content.

A time-saving way to get perspective on your course!
JoinIn also saves you time with its ability to instantly generate pre-formatted Excel spreadsheets of student results that can be combined easily with WebCT, Blackboard, or iLrn™ grade reports. Plus, the data you collect will help you help your students—it allows you to validate your connection to your students and assess where real learning is taking place. You can see the percentage of the class that has answered a question correctly or incorrectly. This tells you if a sufficient amount of the class understands the material before moving on.

Text-specific content that involves students in the lecture
Quick Quiz questions from Serway texts are included in the program, providing you with the opportunity to quickly test students’ basic understanding of physics concepts and principles. Each Quick Quiz is cast in an objective format, including multiple choice, true/false, and ranking.

Hundreds of Conceptual Questions from Serway texts are also included in the program, allowing you to quickly assess students’ conceptual understanding of the physical world. The Conceptual Questions are ideal for initiating classroom discussions.

Also available—Assessing to Learn in the Classroom (A2LC)
With A2LC, you have access to hundreds of carefully crafted questions for Audience Response Systems. Over the last decade the University of Massachusetts Physics Education Research Group (UMPERG) has tested and refined Audience Response System content that allows instructors to pinpoint exactly where their students are facing challenges in logic. These questions focus on the most important and challenging concepts in physics, and unlike most clicker content, A2LC's questions offer up to 10 answers from which students can select. Contact your Thomson Brooks/Cole representative for details!