Video-Conference Things

1) Make sure distant site is well microphoned....our medical program is distributed to three sites and the ability for the distant site to easily ask questions helps them feel engaged

2) As a presenter really work on including the remote site....it really helps to welcome them, look into the camera a lot and ask questions of both sites...I could get you in touch with the person here that does faculty training before they do a distributed lecture

There is a group of us that will be talking later this summer or early fall about TBL at a distance.....my early thoughts are at http://cis.apsc.ubc.ca/wiki/index.php/TBL_Online

1) Google Docs - requires one laptop per group, wireless networking

I have an instructor that has 24 teams in his class....he creates a table in Google docs with questions and a place for each team to put their responses....the teams work thru a typical TBL worksheet/Application Activity....he then shares the Google docs password....everyone simultaneously adds their response....he pulls up the completed doc and facilitates the discussion

2) Wimba Live Classroom (or similar - adobe connect, illuminate, webex)

I have tried live classroom and shared the screen with all the groups and they put a checkmark beside their team number and response to the application activity.....much like above solution

3) Web-Based Clickers

Some of the classroom response technology has a web version that allows multiple sites to respond to same poll....disadvantage is the anonimized version of the results....but does give you a point of departure for a discussion

4) If students have PDA's maybe Wake Forests "Class in Hand" or ETHs "Lecture Communicator" might be of use

5) I wonder if Dan Robinson (UTexas Austin) RAT software would support multi-site?.....http://tbl.apsc.ubc.ca/conferences/2007/#l

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I have been given a unique opportunity to deliver a clinical pathology course via distance education to a group of 25 veterinary students at the University of Nebraska next Spring. I cannot travel to Nebraska as I am also scheduled to teach a section to the 123 veterinary students at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University in Ames. The course meets at both sites every day that semester. I have used team based learning successfully at the ISU CVM for several years. In that course we do individual quizzes and exercises followed by team exercises almost daily, and then we meet as an entire class to debate the responses. Most of the exercises are based on clinical cases. I am such an advocate of TBL that it is difficult to even imagine going back to conventional methods. The current plan is to deliver a synchronous course by Polycom and computer desktop sharing to the UNL students from Ames. I am looking to recreate what I have done locally, but from a distance. Have any of you attempted a synchronous TBL course from a distance and if so, would you mind sharing your experiences? I would love to hear from you.

Holly Bender, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVP

Director, Biomedical Informatics Research Group

Room 2254 Veterinary Medicine

Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology

College of Veterinary Medicine

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50011-1250

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