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Jennifer,
Like your idea :) Having remote video conference sites geographically
counties apart, I have had to devise a way to do this to report group
results. Having similar uneven pc and connection access across the
sites, I have done the lowest common denominator of just having each
team text my cell phone. Then I hand enter each team's response onto a
powerpoint slide"offline" of the video signal I am sending out. When
ready, I switch over to my powerpoint. Not too slick but functional :D
But you may have finally given me a reason to look at becoming a
tweeter.
-Mike

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On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Jennifer Imazeki <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been pondering how to have groups simultaneously report responses
> to open-ended application questions. My class will be 75 students (13
> groups) and the classroom is much longer than it is wide. I was
> considering having students use whiteboards but depending on how the
> teams move their desks around, I'm not sure how easy it will be for
> everyone to see everyone else's answer. I am hoping there will be at
> least one laptop in each group but wifi in the building is sometimes
> iffy (gotta love old state schools). It just dawned on me that if I
> use Twitter or some other service that allows students to text to a
> website, I could show their responses with the computer projector (and
> the 160 character limit might actually be a good thing for keeping
> students, and myself, focused on a specific choices). Has anyone had
> students text their group responses in? Any suggestions on sites that
> would allow this, other than Twitter? I've always been a bit hesitant
> to do this in the past because I didn't want to require students be
> able to text (or have to pay for it) but these days, I can't imagine
> there won't be at least one person in each group who has unlimited
> texting on their phone. Thoughts?
>
> thanks!
> Jennifer
> ****************************
> Jennifer Imazeki
> Department of Economics
> San Diego State University
> homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/
> Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com
>