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Some people us a small whiteboard per group......there is a med school
on the east coast that uses these (can't remember name)......I got
little letter size whiteboards that were about 2 dollars each

If there is a tablet laptop per group.....look up ubiquitous presenter
out of the university of san diego....built university of Washington
universal presenter

If you get students to do short answers.....you might be able to collect
the answers electronically and do some kind of word cloud for reporting
(see www.wordle.com)

One of my instructors uses google docs with a table cell for each team
to report in.....they can simultaneous update this (we done it with up
to 24 groups).....he then pulls up the google doc and eyeballs it and
discusses

Jim

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Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 8:29 PM
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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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