Running Head: Audience Response System Integration and Implementation of an Audience Response System

Audience response systems have been in use in the university arena for many years. The first classes to use them were science classes, physics in particular. As an undergraduate student at the University of Akron, I first used this technology when I took an astronomy course. The university was piloting audience response systems, and I was lucky enough to be in a class that used them. This turned out to be one of my favorite classes, and probably one that I learned the most from (although I am not sure if it was because of the teacher, the content, or the use of the audience response system). Using an audience response system (ARS) in my classroom has always been a goal of mine, but I was not sure if these systems were available in a small system. Imagine my surprise last year when my school announced that we had an ARS available for use. I was very excited to try it. The technology supervisor at school set the system up on one of the laptops, and announced to the staff that it was ready for use. He tried it out in his class and was the only one to use the system last year. This year, I was determined to use the system for my classes. An ARS is a system that allows the user to take a real-tine poll of students in