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WebAssign JoinIn
PhysicsNow Multimedia Manager Instructor's Resource
vMentor WebTutor

 


WebAssign is the most utilized, most user-friendly homework management system in physics. Designed by physicists for physicists, this system is a trusted teaching companion. And now, enrich your students' visualization skills and enhance their understanding of concepts with the enhanced WebAssign Homework Management System, packaged with a new copy of any Serway physics title at no additional charge. WebAssign's integrated Homework Management System enables you and your students to work as partners in the teaching and learning process. The WebAssign Homework Management System uses pedagogy and content found in the best-selling Serway physics books to help your students see physics in action. When you assign homework using WebAssign, your students are able to interact with the very concepts they are learning about!

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PhysicsNow is one of the most powerful online tutorial and homework systems available, and with the iLrn™ course management option it provides testing and course management tools. The PhysicsNow with iLrn integrated course management system enables students and instructors to work as partners in the teaching and learning process. Our completely integrated suite of course management tools and courseware, testing and diagnostic capabilities, web quizzes, homework, and self-paced tutorials transforms the teaching and learning experience.

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Available FREE to your students when you adopt select physics texts. vMentor is text-specific one-to-one online tutoring help with a subject area expert who has a copy of the text you are using in class. vMentor features two-way audio, an interactive whiteboard for displaying presentation materials, and instant messaging. With vMentor, students interact with the tutor and other students using standard microphones and speakers. Inside the vMentor virtual classroom, icons indicate who is in the class and who is speaking, sending a message, or using the whiteboard. To ask a question, students simply click on the "hand" icon. For more information on vMentor (including hours the virtual classroom is open), please contact your Thomson representative.

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Transform any lecture into a truly interactive student experience with JoinIn on TurningPoint®. Combined with your choice of several leading keypad systems, JoinIn™ on TurningPoint® turns your ordinary PowerPoint® application into powerful audience response software. We provide interactive text-specific slide sets that you can modify and merge with any existing PowerPoint lecture slides for a seamless classroom presentation.
JoinIn on TurningPoint® allows you to:

  • Take polls - and instantly show results
  • Quiz - to get an instant read on class progress
  • Give exams - and easily export results to your grade book
  • Facilitate peer review - makes it easy for students to comment candidly and anonymously
  • Facilitate group work - each group can click in their answers
  • Create student teams or individual competitions that reinforce content in exciting ways
  • Take attendance in seconds

Please contact your local Thomson Representative for information on Personal Response System content as well as hardware options.

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This one-stop lecture and class preparation tool makes it easy for you to assemble, edit, publish, and present custom lectures for your course, using Microsoft PowerPoint. The Multimedia Manager lets you bring together text-specific lecture outlines and art from the text book, along with video and animations from the Web or your own materials—culminating in a powerful, personalized, media-enhanced presentation. The CD-ROM also contains a full Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and other instructor resources.

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The latest online learning tool from Thomson Learning is designed to help your students grasp even the most complex topics in physics. Instructors using WebTutor™ have access to premium online content and powerful customization, class management, and communication tools. Content available in the following platforms: WebCT, Blackboard, eCollege, Desire2Learn, Angel.

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