<p>i have a large lecture class and i don't know how to find out if i need a clicker or not</p>
<p>It would be listed with the textbook requirements.</p>
<p>can you buy them at liebermans? and are they sometimes included in textbook bundles? because i have a 300 person lecture class and it doesnt say anything about needing a clicker and i thought you needed them for most classes that size</p>
<p>Yes you can buy them at Lieberman.</p>
<p>No they are not included in textbook bundles.</p>
<p>Just because you have a 300 person class doesn’t mean you need a clicker. To say “most classes that size require them” is totally incorrect, I would say very few classes require them, though SOME do.</p>
<p>As handemon said, if you needed one, it would be listed with your required textbooks.</p>
<p>I’ve never needed one.</p>
<p>ok thank you. it was just that how the clicker was explained to me made it seem like almost all large classes needed them…</p>
<p>What’s a clicker???</p>
<p>I’m not sure what they use them for specifically at UDel, but I saw these demonstrated at a parent council meeting at my S’s high school last year. It’s a handheld device that looks like a small phone with a num pad and other input buttons. Professors with large lecture classes can ask for responses during the lecture and said responses are then displayed on a computer screen. The professor can alter his/her lecture accordingly. It’s a way of knowing if that sea of faces out there actually understands what he/she is talking about. Not a bad idea when there’s a very large audience. (It was kind of silly at our high school that they would even consider them given class sizes vary from 17-30 at most. Seriously, how can a teacher not interact directly with a group that small? But alas, they were given a technology grant and that’s how the spent it.)</p>