eInstruction Clicker misery

Almost everything can be brought into the millennium if you simply add an e to the beginning. Some of the eThings are good. For example, emacs have revolutionized education as a whole for the K-8th grade. Ebay has become the most viewed website in the world. However, a grand majority of these eObjects are simply the old, slow version that is failing that has been repackaged, renamed, resold at a “NEW AND EXCITING” price. eBooks, eLockers (presumably for all the eBooks), and even so much as an eCompass (maybe for if your are lost on the information superhighway). The eInstruction Clicker is no different. In a lecture class of 200 something kids, all of whom have purchased and registered the clicker, only about 40 kids will be able to get their answer in. This is simply because the people at eInstruction are trying to run an outdated source code on their program. They came up with the idea, bandaged an old program with the bare minimum to make it “work””, and put it in the classroom. Also, salesmen (bless their hearts) convinced the school we only needed TWO sensors. Take a lecture hall with stadium seating and fill it with 200+ kids, then have them all point IR transmitters at two little balls the size of a grapefruit, and try to convince ME that you won’t have any problems. Then, they have the audacity to blame it on the… FLUORESCENT LIGHTS!!! I have had eNough!