Hello Buddhi,

I teach a food science course using TBL, and Iıd love to chat about it.  The
website is 
http://comenius.susqu.edu/BIOL/010/Tobin-Janzen/spiceoflifehomefall2009.html

Cheers!

Tammy Tobin
Susquehanna University


On 7/13/10 4:23 PM, "Lamsal, Buddhi P [FSHNA]" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Has anyone tried TBL for food science? I teach a senior level course ŒFood
> Processingı and was thinking of using TBL; seems a bit too late for this fall.
> I would be interested in application questions (problems to solve), RAT
> questions (of course, content dependent) and like.
> thanks
> ---
> Buddhi Lamsal
> 515-294-8681 
>  
> 
> From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Lori Schirmer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:56 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: TBL Question: Mechanism for Recording Take-Away
> Points/Notetaking?
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> 
> Mike, 
> 
> That sounds really cool!
> 
> Eileen,
> 
> We also received similar feedback from students after their first TBL
> experience.  We developed a lower-tech way to address their concerns.  It also
> has been a nice way to ease faculty who were mostly lecturers into TBL.  We
> display in class (and post only after class, not before) the "summary slides".
> They are simply 1 or 2 ppt slides with the take home message (but not the
> details of the "answer") after each application exercise that visibly and
> explicitly link the exercise to the behavioral objectives.  I think it made a
> huge difference and students have responded very positively.  Students still
> take lots of notes in class but it helps them organize their notes and takes
> the pressure off if they happened to miss a part of the discussion.
> 
>  
> 
> Powerpoint slides are something of a security blanket to our students because
> that's the majority of their class materials prior to the course sequence
> where we use TBL.
> 
>  
> 
> Lori
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 12:15, Michael J. Welker <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> Eileen,
> A solution we are pursuing to this "capture" gap is to setup a new classroom
> utilizing Steelcase's LearnLab setup:
> http://www.steelcase.com/en/resources/overview/documents/learnlab.pdf
> 
> The overall setup is basically an excellent classroom setup to actually
> support TBL. I made the comment at the demo classroom we visited in Columbus
> that I had been fighting our classrooms to do TBL for two years now and this
> was like a dream come through.  The key pieces are the "Copycam"
> (http://www.electronic-whiteboard.net/index/product/id/4344/) and Steelcase's
> Huddleboard whiteboard system (
> http://www.steelcase.com/en/products/category/worktools/boards-and-easels/hudd
> leboard/documents/08-0001216_pdf.pdf ). With these, you can electronically
> capture and display team notes and doodles to print or post online.
> 
> Hope to have it up and running for Fall :)
> -Mike
> 
> Mike Welker
> History Adjunct Faculty
> & Interim Coordinator, Distance Learning
> North Central State College
> Mansfield, Ohio
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> "Remember, I'm pulling for you... we're all in this together. Keep your stick
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> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Scallen, Eileen
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all--
> 
>  
> 
> I used TBL in my Civil Procedure course this past spring.  As I expected, some
> students love it and some hate it and some are indifferent.  I am trying to
> revise and adjust the exercises to reduce the number of students who hate it.
> 
>  
> 
> I do not let students keep the multiple choice questions or exams after the
> IRAT/GRAT process (it is pretty hard to write new ones all the time).  The
> students complain that they don't have a way of recording the "take-away"
> points or lessons they've learned from the process b/c the process is so
> interactive and goes so quickly they don't have time to take notes.
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone addressed this problem?  If so, how?
> 
>  
> 
> Eileen A. Scallen
> 
> Professor of Law
> 
> William Mitchell College of Law
> 
> (651) 290-6323
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