Friends, There is a powerpoint jeopardy gameboard that you can download and add the questions to. You can easily change point values. There are several versions online that you can find by doing a google search for jeopardy online. The link for the one developed at JMU is: http://www.jmu.edu/madison/teacher/jeopardy/jeopardy.htm Dr. Karen Milligan Box 71874 Carson-Newman College Jefferson City, TN 37760 On 1/14/09 2:08 PM, "Thomas DeWitt" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Aloha, > > Here are a few successful things that I've done in the past: > > - Role Plays: Provide each team with a description of the characters that > they will portray and the objectives for each team. Then allow them a > specified time to interact and hold a debriefing after they've completed the > role play to discuss the interaction and their ability or inability to > complete their objectives. I've found this to work well in my international > business class (negotiations between groups from different cultures) and in my > personal selling class (group of salespeople and the customer, each of which > has different objectives to be achieved). > > - Jeopardy: I've put together a game board on a large poster board that allows > me to set 4 categories of questions with three different point values (12 > possible selections). The questions are based on the readings for the day. > Students get in their groups and the students that answer the question > correctly earn points for their group. The group that accumulates the most > points gets a prize. I usually give each student in the winning group a > lottery ticket. I tried candy as a prize once, but didn't like it nearly as > much as the lottery tickets. While this exercise doesn't facilitate > communication across groups, it doesn't help to foster team work and > competition. > > Cheers, Tom > > Tom DeWitt Ph.D. > Assistant Professor of Marketing > College of Business and Economics > University of Hawaii - Hilo > 200 W. Kawili St. > Hilo, HI 96720 > > Phone: (808) 974-7384 > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warner, Rosalind" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:48 > Subject: application exercises across and between teams > To: [log in to unmask] > >> > Hi - >> > >> > I was wondering if anyone had some ideas on good application >> > exercises that can be done between teams - I have, for example, >> > asked teams to develop questions that can then be answered by >> > the team next to them, etc. I would like to get some good >> > discussion and maybe even competition going between the teams as >> > well as team discussion within them. >> > >> > Thank you, >> > >> > Rosalind Warner