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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