We have had this problem.. went to "Desktags"... put their names on half-sheet of paper (lengthwise), fold it over: It stands on their desks. We require everyone to put them on their desks the first few weeks (which also expedites our getting to know them: We also take a digital picture of each student with their Desktag during the first class, tagging this to an "interests" survey, also facilitating us getting to know them better). After the first few weeks of doing this (we also collect the Tags and redistribute them the first few weeks, else they vanish!), they come to know their Team Member names. Cheers! Gary D. Lynne, Professor Department of Agricultural Economics and School of Natural Resources 103B Filley University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68583-0922 USA Website: http://www.agecon.unl.edu/facultystaff/directory/lynne.html Phone: 1-402-472-8281 Cell: 1-402-430-3100 This message and any attachments are confidential, may contain privileged information, and are intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivery to the named recipient, any review, distribution, dissemination or copying by you is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, you should notify the sender by return e-mail and delete the message from your computer system and destroy any copies in any form. "We are always only one failed generational transfer of knowledge away from darkest ignorance" (Herman Daly) "We do not just have our own interests. We share interests with others. Empathy ... exemplifies the implicit solidarity of human nature" (Robert Solomon) "Whoever frames the debate tends to win the debate" (George Lakoff) Jennifer Imazeki <[log in to unmask] OM> To Sent by: [log in to unmask] Team-Based cc Learning <TEAMLEARNING-L@L Subject IST.OLT.UBC.CA> question (or maybe just venting) 12/14/2010 10:15 PM Please respond to Jennifer Imazeki <[log in to unmask] OM> Hi everyone, I am having my students do their team evaluations online (using a form in Blackboard), due by midnight tonight. In the last few hours, there have been three emails from students, sent through Blackboard to the whole class, asking for their teammates to please respond with all their names! These are not students who have been absent a ton so I am bewildered how they went through the entire semester without learning their teammates names. Has anyone else seen this sort of thing, or are my students just bizarrely lacking in social skills?!? Jennifer **************************** Jennifer Imazeki Department of Economics San Diego State University homepage: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~jimazeki/ Economics for Teachers blog: http://economicsforteachers.blogspot.com