I went to a seminar recently on "Clickers in the classroom" and they were
doing things like this. Each student (or team in our case) would have a
"clicker" and respond to the question posted on the screen (often in power
point) in a set amount of time. The issue I see with this is that I like my
students to go through the quiz at their own pace and order - with the
clickers it seems that the whole class is on the same problem at a time.
Jessica McKinney Ketchum, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Virginia Commonwealth University
730 East Broad Street, Theater Row, 3006
P.O. Box 980032
Richmond, VA 23298-0032
Phone: 804-827-2057, Fax: 804-828-8900
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Subject: Web Software for Reporting Team Results?
As before, I'm new to TBL. In reading Ch. 3, "Creating Effective
Assignments," of Michaelsen's et al.'s book, much is made of reporting
results of team answers to group questions at once. It struck me that
software might be a useful way of doing this. I'm thinking of the following:
- most students have laptops and campuses have WiFi
- one team member logs into a web site
- I'd ask a complex question with a short answer (word, phrase,
sentence), as in Ch. 3., and each team would enter their answer
- I'd then lock students out of making a change in the answer
- I'd then show the class all answers from a web page that takes as
inputs each team's answer (our classroom projectors have a "video
mute").
It would be something like
TEAM ANSWER
1 no change
2 increase
3 decrease
I'd prefer this to a multiple choice system where teams select A, B, C,
and then they hold cards up when I ask. I'm not that fond of MC questions
as it gives them hints.
Anybody have thoughts on existing software that might accomplish this?
I've got a friend who likely could cobble something together, but I thought
I'd ask first.
Come to think of it, a low tech way to do this would be to have each team
send a member to the board and they'd write at the same time. But, a
software system seems more elegant.
- Bill
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