laptop computers are always nice

give laptops?

wow ... I usually give away cookbooks and highlights.

highlighters

got items. I need ways to choose who wins

I hide stickers in my handouts.

not doing handouts, all online

give them a little slip w/ a number on it and use some sort of online dice roller to generate your winning numbers?

I usually give randomly to active participants... "Great point - Have a prize!"

I also have been known to pick from order of entry using even or prime numbers if I want to truly be random.

Also multiples of a random number based on order of entry or participation.

well if you're not giving out laptops... I do birthdays. Ask 3 people for a number between 1 and 12 another 3 for 1-31. Factor out 12s & 31s

I like the bday idea. Thanks, I might try that next time. I love to mix things up.

2 ways I do it: Ask for a number from 1-100, ask someone "front or back", ask someone else "left or right"

then use their answers to count off to the winner

2nd way is when I have multiple prizes - put a bin in front of each prize and give tickets throughout preso for awesome questions, etc...

Participants put tickets in bins for the prizes they'd like to win. I give out tons of tickets which is fun...spawned a whole wiki thread..

dlsi.wetpaint.com/thread...

Another way is to give everyone 2 tickets - one for themselves and one that they have to write the name of another deserving participant.

These are great!! Keep them coming!!

That banana sums up the way my participants feel when we start handing out tickets!

gcwebster that is a good idea

or stickers under the chairs

I like stickers under chairs

Randomly pick someone posting in the back channel.

love the back channel idea!

in my classroom I give everyone a number and then use the random number generator on the graphing calculator to pick the "winning" people...

ok..the win the opportunity to answer a question...not quite the same as a door prize..but I am an Algebra teacher what do you expect...

www.random.org/

that was a random number generator website (make sure to ask for integers to be generated)

used DEN PPT Digital Scavenger Hunt by Matt Monjan. Gave prizes to the first one to get the answer. FUN!

liked what tammyw did at workshop...flip a coin, everyone hands on heads or hands on tails, sit down if wrong, and repeat until 1 standing