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Prompted Conversation · Relationship Mapping

QUE CARDS

QUE CARDS is a prompted conversation exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
Low cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Search thiagi.com Freebies Training Games QUESTION CARDS QUESTION CARDS Copyright © 1997, Sivasailam Thiagarajan.
  2. A textra game maximizes the learning from handouts and job aids.
  3. This type of game reinforces a reading assignment with peer pressure and peer support.
  4. QUESTION CARDS is a textra game that ensures that the participants read a handout for details and recall these details later.
  5. Distribute the handout and ask each participant to read it -- and prepare 10 question cards based on its content.
  6. Each card should have a closed question on one side and the single correct answer on the other.
  7. After a suitable pause for studying the handout and preparing the question cards, organize the participants into groups of four to seven.
  8. Ask each group to mix up the question cards from its members and exchange the whole pile with another group.
  9. After the exchange, ask the group to place the cards in the middle of the table, question side up.
  10. Within 10 seconds, this player gives an answer.
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Prompts to use +

QUESTION CARDS is a textra game that ensures that the participants read a handout for details and recall these details later.

Distribute the handout and ask each participant to read it -- and prepare 10 question cards based on its content.

Each card should have a closed question on one side and the single correct answer on the other.

After a suitable pause for studying the handout and preparing the question cards, organize the participants into groups of four to seven.

Ask each group to mix up the question cards from its members and exchange the whole pile with another group.

After the exchange, ask the group to place the cards in the middle of the table, question side up.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: QUE CARDS. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: QUESTION CARDS is a textra game that ensures that the participants read a handout for details and recall these details later.; Distribute the handout and ask each participant to read it -- and prepare 10 question cards based on its content.; Each card should have a closed question on one side and the single correct answer on the other.; After a suitable pause for studying the handout and preparing the question cards, organize the participants into groups of four to seven.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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