Awesome idea!
-M
Michael Sweet, Ph.D.
Director of Instructional Development
Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Texas, Austin
MAI 2206 | (512) 232-1775
On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:29 PM, "Jim Sibley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing
>
> jim
>
>
>> From: "Jackson, John Mark" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: "Jackson, John Mark" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:24:25 -0600
>> To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Sharing an idea
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Thanks so much for a great meeting in Vegas! I learned a great deal. I went
>> hoping to "tweak" how I was doing things with TBL in my class, and I came away
>> with almost too much information to process. Fabulous experience.
>>
>> So, a big concern of mine has been how I handle simultaneous reporting. Other
>> than doing multiple choice clicker questions, I was having a hard time with it
>> in my relatively large class (20 teams). I can't practically do gallery walks
>> in the space I have, and the stack transparency idea wasn't really applicable
>> to my content. I was trying to avoid make-a-list activities and I had
>> interpreted that as meaning pretty much anything they write (didn't want one
>> person doing all the writing). But I really liked the gallery walk idea.
>>
>> Someone in one of the meetings suggested having teams tweet their answer along
>> with a hashtag of your choosing so that you just search for the hashtag and
>> see all the submitted answers, which I thought was a good idea, but I decided
>> to try something else.
>>
>> We use moodle as our LMS. I set up a Question and Answer forum for the team
>> submissions. I named a thread "question 1" and had one team member from each
>> team Reply to my initial post with their team number and their answer. They
>> were told to "Submit" when I gave the signal but not before (so they couldn't
>> see other team answers before submitting theirs).
>>
>> in a few seconds, I had a scrollable list of all the answers, and I picked out
>> a couple that were interesting and called on those teams to begin the
>> discussion in class.
>>
>> I then had each team "reply" to the answer they thought was the best one,
>> similar to voting in a gallery walk.
>>
>> I think it worked pretty well! There was certainly more discussion during
>> class and I was able to write a more interesting team assignment when the
>> answer wasn't just MCQs. I also learned a lot by seeing what they thought was
>> the best answer (which wasn't close to the best answer in my mind!!).
>>
>> Sorry this was a long email. Just thought it might be helpful and I would
>> appreciate feedback on the idea.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John Mark
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>>
>> John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO
>> Southern College of Optometry
>> (901) 722-3314
>> Skype: jacksonsco
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