Turning Announces Social Learning Community and New Release of Products

Poll in ANY Application with TurningPoint AnyWhere^™ 2.0 for PC and Mac^®; Response Technology Users Communicate, Collaborate and Connect with TurningTalk

To accommodate various presentation styles and technology integrations, TurningPoint AnyWhere combined with Turning’s ResponseCard^® keypads or ResponseWare^™, a web-based polling application, creates a wireless response and voting system allowing presenters to ask interactive questions within their preferred presentation application –PowerPoint^® or Mac^® Keynote^® presentations, Word documents, Excel^® spreadsheets, PDF content, web pages, multimedia, and more. Originally developed to accommodate users interested in a polling option that didn’t require PowerPoint, TurningPoint AnyWhere uses a floating toolbar to poll participants or students at anytime using any type of digital content. Results can be collected anonymously or tracked by individual with the use of a participant list. Educators also benefit from integration with popular LMS systems, including Blackboard and WebCT, that supports the ability to import class rosters and upload session results into a gradebook.

The 2.0 release of TurningPoint AnyWhere provides increased functionality and improved interface design to both PC and Mac users including:

• Question Lists – Presenters can create and store interactive questions in advance.
• Dynamic Charts – Real-time results during polling.
• Screen Shot Report – Automatic screen shots capture question content in other digital applications and correlate results on a question-by-question basis.
• Enhanced ResponseWare Support – Participants can respond to interactive polling questions using their web-enabled devices including iPod touch^®, iPhone^™, BlackBerry^® smartphones, laptops, or desktop computers.

"TurningPoint AnyWhere 2.0 provides any presenter with extraordinary ease-of-use. Using any presentation application, presenters can engage participants, track results, and improve outcomes for any meeting or classroom environment with little to no learning curve," said Turning's CEO Mike Broderick. "TurningPoint AnyWhere is one of the simplest polling solutions in the response industry. I believe response technology users will be impressed with both its flexibility and powerful functionality."

Turning Technologies also launched TurningTalk, a new social learning community to provide its users with an open forum for the discussion and sharing of ideas and teaching strategies. To help customers improve the quality and effectiveness of learning as well as successfully integrate response technology, registered users can participate in forums, build their own blog, and download valuable content. TurningTalk can be found at www.Turning-Talk.com.

Dr. Eric Mazur, Harvard professor and the author of Peer Instruction: A User's Manual (Prentice Hall, 1997), a book that explains how to teach large lecture classes interactively, is a featured TurningTalk contributor. As Chairman of Turning Technologies' Instructional Strategy Advisory Group, Dr. Mazur will be posting a series of articles related to his Peer Instruction technique and its effectiveness in the classroom.

Brad Gant, Vice President of Turning’s Education Division commented, “TurningTalk is a community that helps educators create active learning environments using our interactive tools. Through sharing best practices and lesson plans, members help each other create significant gains in learning outcomes for their students.”

About Turning Technologies:
Turning Technologies, LLC develops interactive response systems utilizing the latest software and hardware tools available and transforms them into state-of-the-art applications for audience and student response. The company’s flagship product, TurningPoint^® software and ResponseCard^® keypads, integrate with Microsoft’s PowerPoint^®, providing the most advanced combination of knowledge and technology currently available in the field of audience and student assessment.

Visit www.TurningTechnologies.com.