Awesome idea! -M Michael Sweet, Ph.D. Director of Instructional Development Center for Teaching and Learning University of Texas, Austin MAI 2206 | (512) 232-1775 On Mar 7, 2011, at 1:29 PM, "Jim Sibley" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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