Jennifer... We use individual (students provide these) clickers for the iRATs, and, then, use Team clickers (we provide these) for the tRATs... the Teams designating one person to "click-in" the "first scratch" they chose on each question, as they work through the IF AT scratch-off form...
So, the Team responses come into the data base (we use the Response clicker system).... and we know how the Team responded relative to all other Teams, immediately, for further discussion in class, after they finish scratching the IF AT forms.
Just a thought...
Gary
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Jennifer Imazeki ---09/16/2010 03:50:37 PM---Hi all,
Hi all,
I use clickers to have teams submit their responses. After the
responses are in, I show the chart of responses. One challenge I've
had in a few cases is that when the large majority of teams select one
of the responses, then the few teams who select something else seem
quite reluctant to defend their choice. With the clickers, I can't
actually see who answered what (only the number selecting each
response) so I can't immediately call on the teams to explain their
choice. One thing in John's email yesterday caught my eye - he
mentioned having students hold up a colored card reflecting their
answers as well as submitting responses with clickers. But for some of
my questions, there are as many as 7 or 8 possible responses so I'd
have to make a lot of cards (and I worry a bit that reducing to just
four or five answer choices would make things too easy). My current
solution is to randomly select a team and ask them to say which
response they chose and explain why they thought that was the BEST
answer - and mostly, the other teams will then chime in. But if
anyone has other ideas, I'd appreciate hearing them...
Jennifer
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Jennifer Imazeki
Department of Economics
San Diego State University
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