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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