Would be great to capture this on video! -M From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jim Sibley Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 11:36 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: TBL AppEX Reporting - Ping Pong Balls We have also used the ping pong balls and doc camera idea We had student decide on 8 - 25 gigaton wedges of CO2 mitigation....picking various possibilities......increasing car fuel efficiency, biomass, increasing building efficient standards, solar, nuclear, sequestration....the goal is to change the climbing atmospheric CO2 levels into a flat line We handed out graphs....colored wedges....and glue sticks....gave them 25 minutes to discuss and decide and then used the ping pong balls to get teams to come up and explain their choices Within about 5 team reports there was clear convergence....we where recording a lot of their points on the board while they reported....and then we used the board to recap This is based on a game developed at I believe Havard jim > From: Michael Sweet <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Michael Sweet <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:58:13 -0500 > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: ways to structure team based applications > > Dee, > > Yeah, these are not "holding up a card" kind of simultaneous reports. She > collects the argument template sheets and then puts them up on the document > camera / projector and facilitates discussion among teams as she moves through > the responses that groups wrote. > > It's not *truly* simultaneous report, although at this point, she has all > their papers so they can't change their answers. > > I like the pingpong ball idea! > > -M > > > > From: Dee Fink [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:07 AM > To: Sweet, Michael S; TBL Listserv > Subject: Re: ways to structure team based applications > > Michael, > > Wow, that is such a great example of a TBL application exercise in the > Humanities, where professors often have trouble thinking of ways to create > applications for TBL. Those questions are challenging and represent good > "history thinking." > > One Question: > These are mostly "short-essay" questions, meaning the teams cannot hold > up a number card to compare answers. > So, how do you get INTER-team dialogue going, about their respective > answers? > > My first thought is: Use Larry Michaelsen's "pingpong ball" procedure. > You may be familiar with that. If not, he puts the numbers of the teams > on pingpong balls, and puts them into a bowl. Then, in class on such > occasions, he picks one out, asks that team to read its answer to a question. > Then he tells the whole class that he will use their answer as "the" > correct answer and judge all other team answers in terms of that answer - > UNLESS that answer gets challenged, then and there. > As you can imagine, any team that has a different answer immediately > (and vociferously) challenges the original "answer." Eventually the class has > to choose which answer they collectively think is best. > > Are there other good ways to process short-answer team answers? > > Thanks, Dee > > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Sweet, Michael S <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > Duane, > > Basically, think in terms of case-based decisions. The basic template is > "Given THIS, students must decide THAT." > > There need not necessarily be a "right" answer, and therefore these don't > necessarily have to be graded. > > Don't know if you've seen the video in which the history teacher describes how > she has students make decisions to build arguments, but just in case, the > video is here: > http://magenta.cit.utexas.edu/largeclasses/#tbl > > . . .and I've attached the "template" she describes in the video for you to > must upon at your leisure. > > There's lots of ways to do build Application activities, and it is the most > creative part of implementing TBL, I think. > > As Jim likes to say "This is the part of TBL where you spend the most time > staring out the window. . . . " :-) > > -M > > > From: Team-Based Learning [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > Stock, Duane R. > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:34 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: ways to structure team based applications > > > I am looking for sources to help construct team based applications. (How to > word questions, etc.) > > I have read Chap. 3 in the book by Michaelsen,Fink, Knight. > > Advice such as > "Make-a-specific-choice" , do NOT just "make a list " are great. > But I am looking for further advice and examples. > Any articles or book chapters useful in this context? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > Duane R. 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