Kathy, Thanks for your suggestion. Larry Michaelsen called me and we discussed how we could turn this into a team activity -- much like you are suggesting. He suggested that each individual create a poster - the posters would be placed in the room for the other teams to look at and comment on - using sticky notes. Then the teams would take their posters back to their work area, consider the suggestions, and choose the one they would develop for the tryout the next session. I will develop a poster of one of the sessions I already ran as a model for the poster activity, and for suggestions for improvement also. Already I really like this list-serve, and I will be sure my "students" (faculty in the workshop) sign on. Walt Dr. Walt Wager, Professor Coordinator of Teaching Enhancement Center for Teaching and Learning 4506 University Center, Bldg. C Tallahassee, FL 32306-2550 (850) 644 4452 -----Original Message----- From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ross, Kathy Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:26 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: TEAMLEARNING-L Digest - 15 May 2007 to 16 May 2007 (#2007-16) Walt, I thought I'd respond to your concern about the individual activity discussion not seeming like a team-based learning activity. Because you follow that with a plan for each team to decide on one of their activities to develop and try out on another team, this does seem you can use this as a team-based activity. It sounds like you will ask them to make a decision about what activity to select. They will need to explain to teammates what each one planned, come to some consensus about what criteria to use to select one to use with the other group, and make that decision as a team. Granted, they won't be competing with other teams for a "right" answer report-out. Instead you could ask them to identify and discuss what qualities (time duration, suitability for audience, ease of delivery, ease of explanation, adaptability, amount of active learning, use of critical thinking, solving a problem, etc.) they used to decide which activity to try. Kathy Ross Kathy Ross, Ph.D. Instructional Technologist Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Indiana University Kokomo 2300 South Washington PO Box 9003 Kokomo, IN 46904-9003 765-455-9392 [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: Team Learning Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Automatic digest processor Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 1:09 AM To: Recipients of TEAMLEARNING-L digests Subject: TEAMLEARNING-L Digest - 15 May 2007 to 16 May 2007 (#2007-16) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 13:25:52 -0400 From: "Wager, Walt" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: peer feedback Excerpt-- Following that, they would discuss what they came up with for their course, and get input from their team members. This is where I have a dilemma - It doesn't seem like a team-based learning activity. However, I can see that this might be a common type of thing instructors might want to do - that is have students work on individual projects that are meaningful to them - or that involve personal research. =20 The last day (second Thursday), Each team was to choose one of the activities from among those their team members developed and try it out with one of the other teams. Walt Wager, Professor Center for Teaching and Learning Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-2550 (850) 644-4452