Case Studies
More effective meetings, better-attended lectures and greater participation - these are just some of the things possible with TurningPoint audience response technology.
To promote innovation and outstanding success with Turning Technologies' products, we are committed to sharing with the TurningPoint community our customers' experiences integrating audience response technology for more effective presentations.
The case studies below demonstrate the dramatic difference TurningPoint audience response systems can make to any type of presentation, resulting in increased learning, increased attentiveness, and increased productivity.
If you have implemented TurningPoint interactive presentations in your environment and would like to participate in our TurningPoint Case Study Program, please contact info@turningtechnologies.com for further information.
K-12 Education
Campbell County School District
TurningPoint gives added insight into student learning
Campbell County Schools strive to provide their students with the latest educational technology offerings. So it was no surprise when the district purchased TurningPoint student response systems. Teachers have begun using TurningPoint to decrease grading time, increase student participation and even in preparation for the state's Predictive Assessment Series (PAS).
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Doherty Elementary School, West Bloomfield, MI
Interactive presentations create instant feedback
Cindy Carson, a third grade teacher at Doherty Elementary School in West Bloomfield, Michigan, has been teaching early elementary students for 10 years. Combining a master's degree in teaching from Marygrove College in Detroit and a second master's in educational technology from Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan, Cindy has crafted a fresh approach to classroom teaching from two divergent disciplines—the art of education and the technology of teaching.
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Fremont High School
Maintaining student engagement in specialty trade courses
Arne Erisoty, a Shop Instructor, is always looking for ways to keep his students engaged. After being introduced to TurningPoint by a colleague, Arne chose to use TurningPoint to prepare students for their yearly state and national examinations. TurningPoint's implementation led to a near 20% increase in student performance, results which Arne claims speak volumes to the credibility of the TurningPoint student response system.
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Hillsdale Local Schools
Engaging students in a digital age
Krista Fitch is a District Technology Coordinator for Hillsdale Local Schools in Ashland County, Ohio. The Hillsdale district is dedicated to innovative ways to elevate educational methods, but must be cognizant of tight budgets and utilization of technology that can be shared across the district.
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Lisbon High School
Assessing learning with interactive PowerPoint presentations
Jodi McCullough is a physics, chemistry, astronomy, and geometry teacher at Lisbon High School in Columbiana County, Ohio. About three years ago, Jodi applied for an AYP (annual yearly progress) grant and purchased TurningPoint software, 32 ResponseCard IR keypads and an IR receiver for her classroom. She has found that TurningPoint interactive PowerPoint presentations make it easy to determine if her students really understand a lesson.
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Medina County Career Center
Building student confidence
Dan Ciofani is a high school teacher at the Medina County Career Center. He entered the Medina County Career Center as a passionate champion of what student response technology could accomplish: encourages student assessment, supports an interactive methodology of teaching, instigates contemplations, heightens responsibility, and builds a comfortable environment for learning.
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Walhalla High School Choral Class
Interactivity improves retention
John Fallon has been the Choral Director at Walhalla High School in Walhalla, South Carolina for the past 27 years. Always looking for new ways to engage his students, John has discovered that his students are more excited about his lectures when he uses the TurningPoint system and that his more effective presentations improve learning.
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Wichita High School East Mathematics Department
Adapting the pace of learning
Wichita High School East is located in Wichita, Kansas with a student population of over 2,000 in grades 9-12. Its student body is extremely diverse, representing a wide variety of ethnic, academic and economic backgrounds. The mathematics department at WHSE was looking for a student response system to make the classrooms more interactive and simultaneously introduce a methodology that would track student proficiency.
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Zionsville Community Schools
TurningPoint aids in school's decision making process
Zionsville Community Schools implemented TurningPoint to help educate and assess the overall standpoint of concerned community members on a proposal for the building of a new school. Additionally, TurningPoint is being used to address student specific issues that require anonymity to obtain accurate feedback.
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Higher Education
California Polytechnic State University
TurningPoint engages students and sustains motivation
Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics, Roxy Peck, found TurningPoint to be the ideal solution for classroom instruction. TurningPoint allows Roxy to check whether or not her students have learned concepts at the point they are being discussed. This advanced knowledge helps Roxy better direct discussions as well as set the pace for the rest of the course.
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Cleveland State University
Facilitating in-class participation and increasing grades
With a reputation of "engaged learning," Cleveland State University continually seeks ways to make classes more dynamic and reach its approximately 16,000 students. Instead of lecturing to a classroom of blank stares, Dr. Connor McLennan, Assistant Professor of Psychology at CSU, wanted to engage his class and confirm their comprehension of course material. He thought that a TurningPoint® student response system would be a welcome addition to his teaching. During the course, Dr. McLennan discovered that not only did the system facilitate in-class participation and assessment, but grades also noticeably increased.
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Leeward Community College, Educational Media Center
Increasing student participation with interactive seminars
The University of Hawaii-Leeward Community College's Educational Media Center (EMC) supports teaching and learning through the integration and use of technology. Its strategic objective is to encourage the application of technology and enhance the quality of instruction and services delivered to students both on and off campus. Leanne Chun, the EMC Coordinator and the Educational Technology Developer, was in search of tools
that would not only promote active learning and discussion in the classroom but also have the ability to enhance student retention of information.
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Ohio State University Physics Department
Sequencing review questions to gage retention
Bill Reay, a veteran professor with decades of experience at Ohio State University and Kansas State University, that is compelled to change the landscape of education for lecture classrooms through the usage of audience response systems. Because lectures are "not necessarily learning efficient," Bill has spent years researching active learning techniques for the lecture hall. With over six years of experience using response systems in the classroom, Bill became increasingly convinced that their usage could have a major impact on students' education.
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Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Making complex subjects more accessible with interactive PowerPoint presentations
Dr. Archana Pradhan is an assistant professor and director of undergraduate education for the OB/GYN program at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. TurningPoint helps Dr. Pradhan meet the ongoing challenge of efficient teaching. With immediate student feedback, she spends extra time reviewing only on sections that students haven't mastered.
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Rochester Institute of Technology
Bringing interactive learning on campus to improve teaching
Katie McDonald is an Instructional Technologist at Rochester Institute of Technology's Online Learning Department. Founded in 1829, RIT is an internationally recognized leader in professional and career-oriented education enrolling more than 15,000 students in eight colleges. One of the many roles the Online Learning Department plays on RIT's campus is to assist faculty in their use of technology to enhance teaching and learning across campus.
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Simmons College
TurningPoint creates effective interactive learning environments
Unhappy with their current student response system, Simmons College turned to Turning Technologies' response solution TurningPoint, as a replacement. It didn't take long for TurningPoint to peek the interest of educators from every department. With TurningPoint, ordinary courses were transformed into interactive and effective academic presentations.
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University of Maryland
Improving the learning experience in large lecture halls
Chris Higgins, the Manager of Instructional Design and Development at the University of Maryland, and his team is responsible for the instructional technology needs of faculty on campus. They handle the exploration of new tools and resources for the faculty to improve, enhance and support the teaching and learning process. Because of the considerable size of the university, a committee was assembled to explore ways to improve the experience for students in large classes.
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University of Washington
Using TurningPoint and peer interaction in the classroom
Scott Freeman is a lecturer in the biology department and works primarily with students in the first course of a year-long sequence for biology majors. His large course averages around 345 students per quarter. After seeing the chemistry department effectively using student response systems in their courses, he began a series of demonstrations and workshops with different vendors that offer radio frequency technology. After weighing the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of companies, he selected Turning Technologies becoming the first professor in the sequence to start using TurningPoint® in his classroom.
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Corporate
American Research Institute
TurningPoint enhances learning events
The American Research Institute specializes in unique learning events using game show formats. TurningPoint has been integrated into these events as a means of taking audience participation to a new level of interaction. TurningPoint is also used to help guide the direction of discussion topics as well as the pace of the event.
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Casino of the Sun
Improving employee training with interactive PowerPoint presentations
Marcus Diaz is the director of training and development for two Native American Casinos in Tucson, Arizona, Casino of the Sun and Casino Del Sol. His overall responsibility is to spearhead the training and development initiatives of over 1,300 staff members and to ensure that each employee receives the appropriate training. Marcus integrated TurningPoint in a variety of focus groups and interactive seminars, maximizing the efficient and effective collection of data for the casinos.
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CME Outfitters
Using TurningPoint to create interactive medical sessions
CME Outfitters, a professional development company specializing in services for the medical community, utilizes TurningPoint as a means of creating interactive PowerPoint® presentations to increase audience interaction. CME Outfitters found both TurningPoint and the Turning Technologies staff to be the perfect additions to their conference offerings.
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Everyday Edisons
TurningPoint simplifies voting process on reality television series
Everyday Edisons, a reality television program which follows the process of turning inventor's ideas into realities, found Turning Technologies' TurningPoint to be the ideal solution for their contestant selection process. With TurningPoint, panel judges were able to greatly decrease the time normally associated with tabulating paper based score cards, allowing for a more efficient and effective selection process.
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First Wellesley Consulting Group
Interactive tools enhance a public speaking engagement
First Wellesley Consulting Group is a national professional services firm that focuses on consulting, speaking and education. They work nationally with companies ranging from Fortune 100 corporations to local banks and credit unions. They focus on strategy, technology and business process re-engineering.
To distinguish themelves, First Wellesley strives to produce a session of value for attendees, collect data in an open, non-threatening forum, as well as share and analyze the results in a concise and effective manner.
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Forest City Enterprises, Inc.
Improving business decisions and strategic planning
Forest City Enterprises, Inc., www.forestcity.net, is a diversified real estate company that acquires, develops, owns and manages commercial and residential real estate properties throughout the United States. For the last three years, Forest City Enterprises, Inc. had rented an audience response system to capture the thoughts and opinions of conference attendees. However, the company wanted to find a "do-it-yourself" system.
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Institute 4 Priority Thinking
Discovering what an audience really thinks
Peter C. DeMarco is the president and founder of Institute 4 Priority Thinking, LLC, a consulting firm that devotes the majority of its client support between executive coaching and organizational development. Their consulting approach employs a strong economic platform to help clients improve their overall performance. Their goal is to "help organizations get their priorities straight and keep them straight." DeMarco used audience response systems in the past at other organizations and realized soon after he started his business that it was time to purchase a one for his company.
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MMT Solutions, Inc.
TurningPoint enhances pharmaceutical sales presentations
MMT Solutions, Inc., is an interactive marketing firm that implements technology-driven tactics to build brand and drive market share for their mainly medical clients. TurningPoint bundled kits were deployed to MMT's client, a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company, and used by sales force representatives. After positive results, the company partnered exclusively with Turning and now provides a turnkey solution complete with creative content and cutting-edge technology.
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PriSim Business War Games, Inc.
The tools for business simulations
PriSim Business War Games, Inc., co-founded by David Semb and Jeff Lefebvre, conducts innovative leadership and development training for its Fortune 500 clients. Trainings involve two-to three-days of onsite business simulations as well as lectures and discussions in multiple functional business areas. Both David and Jeff were looking for technology that would help assist in the delivery of their training programs. After being introduced to Turning Technologies' TurningPoint, David and Jeff purchased a 60 Seat system along with two receivers.
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Southern Colorado Family Medicine
Increasing participation with interactive seminars
Steven Milligan MD is a faculty member at Southern Colorado Family Medicine and was looking for a way to obtain "more resident participation during lectures with instantaneous feedback while also giving the residents anonymity when answering." After doing some research, he found the answer to his problem – TurningPoint interactive presentations.
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The Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation
The Colorado Springs Osteopathic Foundation coordinates a practice-based research network for residencies. The goal of the network is to promote the competency of professional development and to help residencies better deal with common clinical problems.
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Government & Nonprofit
Bible Extension Course Program
Creating more vibrant classes
The Bible Extension Course Program (BECP) provides a supplement of Bible Course Electives, offering students a variety of Bible studies conducted by qualified instructors. The Director, Clifton Carpenter, stated, "With the available technology, I wanted to present the Bible Study material in a fresh, new way." TurningPoint interactive presentations dramatically changed his courses by improving assessment and encouraging student participation and interaction.
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BIPAC
TurningPoint interactive presentations encourage voting in elections
The Business Industry Political Action Committee (BIPAC) is designed to encourage businesses and their employees to vote and become more involved in the election process. TurningPoint's ability to collect anonymous responses from interactive presentations helped BIPAC facilitate specialized discussions on critical and sometimes sensitive electoral subjects.
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Common Ground Church Community
Using interactive presentations to make sermons more meaningful
Common Ground Church Community in North Lima, Ohio is a recently established community of faith that seeks "to reach out to the next generation of believers." Pastor Steve Fortenberry wanted to increase interaction during his Sunday message and encourage the congregation members to give more thought to the points of the sermon.
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Youngstown Metro Church
Engaging a young audience with interactive PowerPoint presentations
Youngstown Metro Church and Pastor Shank's mission is worship outreach to the 104,000 18-34 year-olds in the greater Youngstown area. After incorporating a variety of multi-media into his sermons, including audio and video, Pastor Shank felt the communication was still too one-way. TurningPoint changed this by creating more effective presentations, bringing a higher level of interactivity and audience participation.
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Rentals
Clermont County Educational Service Center
Enhancing speaking engagements with interactive PowerPoint presentations
Cathy Macdonald is the Technology Supervisor for the Clermont County Educational Service Center (CCESC); CCESC provides professional development for all K-12 schools in Clermont County, Ohio and is among the largest educational service centers in the state. As a seasoned presenter with over 23 years of experience, Cathy was invited to speak at the eTech Ohio conference in Cincinnati on February 14, 2006. She is always looking for new, innovative ways to create more effective presentations that will educate and energize her audience during the learning process. The eTech Ohio presentation seemed an ideal opportunity to include state-of-the-art TurningPoint presentation technology and interactive seminars.
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Dartmouth AI Conference
Interactivity enhances a once-in-a-lifetime event
Dartmouth AI conference: The Next 50 Years, was a conference which allowed leaders in artificial intelligence research to assemble and examine how far AI has progressed in the past half-century and chart AI's research agenda for the future. Because it was a once-in-a-lifetime event, Carey Heckman chose to implement Turning Technologies' audience response system to create more effective presentations and gather a wide variety of data from a group of people that would not likely ever have the chance again to all be in one room.
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Eduventures Learning Collaborative
Making it easy to collaborate with industry leaders
Eduventures, the leading research and consulting firm for the education market, hosts annual membership meetings for their Learning Collaboratives. These collaboratives are research-driven membership groups of senior professionals from colleges and universities from around the country. Eduventures' Learning Collaboratives in Continuing and Professional Education hosted their annual membership meeting in Chicago in the spring of 2006. As part of the program, there was a desire to create an engaging presentation that could be delivered over dinner to approximately 90 attendees. Turning Technologies' TurningPoint was selected as the solution to this engagement dilemma.
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InfoComm
Three ways for more effective presentations
InfoComm International® is the internal trade association of the professional audiovisual and information communications industries. InfoComm International is the founder of InfoComm, the largest annual conference and exhibition for AV buyers and sellers worldwide. With a variety of industry specialists leading educational sessions, we met up with three thought leaders that used TurningPoint in their presentations, each with different objectives.
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The MASIE Center
TurningPoint delivers interactive experience for conference attendees
A frequent user of TurningPoint, the MASIE Center has found the TurningPoint audience response system to be the ideal addition to their learning conferences. The size of the radio frequency ResponseCards® allowed attendees to easily wear and use them throughout the conference. This mobility created a very natural setting for gathering audience information.
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MPI – World Education Congress
TurningPoint gathers valuable information from session attendees and presenters
MPI wanted a way to "Go Green" with their conferences. TurningPoint provide the perfect solution to eliminate their usual paper based attendee surveys. With TurningPoint's multiple reporting options they not only were able to save paper but also reduce evaluation time.
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Questionmark
Industry assessment through interactive presentations
Questionmark has been providing testing and assessment software since 1988, and around 2,500 customers in 50 countries now use their products. At Questionmark 2006 Annual Users Conference, executives wanted to incorporate technology that would engage their audience and also gather information about its users through more effective meetings. The conference was the ideal forum for collecting feedback with TurningPoint from a wide range of professionals who use Questionmark's products.
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Sherwin-Williams
TurningPoint enhances national sales meetings with interactivity
Sherwin-Williams' Training Manager, Chuck Mengel, needed a way to increase engagement and knowledge retention at their national sales meetings. TurningPoint's interactive audience response system proved to be the ideal rental solution. The event encouraged participation through friendly competition, which created a learning environment fitting for the Sherwin-Williams employees.
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