I love backchanneling! This is great! I can see so many ways to use this during presentations, for faculty meetings, for chatting when I don't want to listen--just kidding. This is one I'm going to explore quickly so that I can get permission right away.
I feel a WWI wiki coming on! I also read in one of the posts about using them as review tools. I think that is a wonderful idea. Thank you.
Google docs is a very interesting tool. I can see many applications for both faculty and students. This will be great to use with the curriculum committee--I can now avoid having to reformat every time a change is emailed. Talk about a time saver! I hope I can talk the Science teacher into using the forms for her Science Fair projects, I think it would really save her some time. My students complete National History Day projects each year. I can see all the aspects being useful in helping them create and work together on these projects. I've only gone to Nationals once and I'd really like to go again!
RE: backchanneling
ReplyDeleteDid you notice the one time in class when I was mentioning Stephen Wolfram's brother, and Kati did a quick search and provided that name for us? If we had a backchannel going then that url would have been put in there and we'd all have the link and could have bookmarked it.
the power of the back/sidechannel