Thanks for sharing jim > From: "Jackson, John Mark" <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: "Jackson, John Mark" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:24:25 -0600 > To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Sharing an idea > > Hi all, > > Thanks so much for a great meeting in Vegas! I learned a great deal. I went > hoping to "tweak" how I was doing things with TBL in my class, and I came away > with almost too much information to process. Fabulous experience. > > So, a big concern of mine has been how I handle simultaneous reporting. Other > than doing multiple choice clicker questions, I was having a hard time with it > in my relatively large class (20 teams). I can't practically do gallery walks > in the space I have, and the stack transparency idea wasn't really applicable > to my content. I was trying to avoid make-a-list activities and I had > interpreted that as meaning pretty much anything they write (didn't want one > person doing all the writing). But I really liked the gallery walk idea. > > Someone in one of the meetings suggested having teams tweet their answer along > with a hashtag of your choosing so that you just search for the hashtag and > see all the submitted answers, which I thought was a good idea, but I decided > to try something else. > > We use moodle as our LMS. I set up a Question and Answer forum for the team > submissions. I named a thread "question 1" and had one team member from each > team Reply to my initial post with their team number and their answer. They > were told to "Submit" when I gave the signal but not before (so they couldn't > see other team answers before submitting theirs). > > in a few seconds, I had a scrollable list of all the answers, and I picked out > a couple that were interesting and called on those teams to begin the > discussion in class. > > I then had each team "reply" to the answer they thought was the best one, > similar to voting in a gallery walk. > > I think it worked pretty well! There was certainly more discussion during > class and I was able to write a more interesting team assignment when the > answer wasn't just MCQs. I also learned a lot by seeing what they thought was > the best answer (which wasn't close to the best answer in my mind!!). > > Sorry this was a long email. Just thought it might be helpful and I would > appreciate feedback on the idea. > > Thanks > > John Mark > --------------------------------- > > John Mark Jackson, OD, MS, FAAO > Southern College of Optometry > (901) 722-3314 > Skype: jacksonsco