This posting on the Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List is an excerpt from a longer article, Teaching with Clickers, by Erping Zhu, coordinator of instructional technology at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT) at the University of Michigan. The full article can be found at
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/publinks/CRLT_no22.pdf. This summary highlights what students like about clickers and a variety of ways faculty use clickers in the classroom.