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An idea- 

Use of a SMRT board reporting system otherwise known as "clickers". There is
definitely software that does this. It is designed a classroom of
individuals. I would think that you just designate one of the team members
to be the responder and have the clicker.

Another way is to do it through the e-mail system of webct. Have one student
from each team log on  and at the same time send an e-mail with there answer
to the class - or post a discussion topic. If you were projecting from your
laptop then you could project the answers to the class. In some ways the
discussion would be better because you could have them threaded together and
the see the thread.

Karen


On 9/7/08 11:29 PM, "Bill Goffe" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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