USING RESPONSE CARDS IN YOUR CLASSROOM: One of the simplest ways to engender thought and discussion is to ask participants to write a response on a blank index card. These cards, once written on, can be kept by the writer to ponder and to stimulate contributions to class-wide discussion. Or the cards can be collected, shuffled, and distributed to participants (each of whom then receives a card whose author is unknown). Finally, the cards can be passed around a group so that each participant can read what others have written. There are many things you can ask participants to write on their response cards. These include a question, an answer, an expectation, a solution, a definition, a belief, a fact, a hypothesis, a preference or even a proverb etc.