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Backchannel in Education – Nine Uses | Teaching with Classroom Response Systems. I wanted to share some additional thoughts on Cliff Atkinson’s new book, The Backchannel, and its implications for higher education. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the first chapter of the book is available online and provides a very clear introduction to the logistics and possibilities of the backchannel. What might the backchannel look like in educational settings? Here are a couple of examples. “The Twitter Experiment,” a five-minute YouTube video, shows how UT-Dallas history professor Monica Rankin used Twitter to facilitate a backchannel discussion. In her case, she had a somewhat large class that she broke into smaller discussion groups. The students were encouraged to post their thoughts on Twitter during the small-group discussion time.

Purdue University has developed a system called Hotseat that facilitates backchannel discussion. (I’ve been meaning to talk about Hotseat here on the blog for a while now. That was fun thinking through these options! TodaysMeet. The challenge of visible twitter at conferences. Last week I gave a keynote at Web 2.0 expo NYC, and as you can see in the photo below, one of the interesting things this year was the twitter feed for the conference was placed on stage behind the keynote speakers.

Any tweet with #w2e was put up live, on stage, a few seconds later. The slides, if any, speakers used were placed on the large screens to the left and right of the stage. I’ve seen twitter on stage, and presented with it up before, but never right smack dab behind me on stage. I’ve spoken at Web 2.0 expo before, and as in the past, the event is well run. As a speaker I’m treated well, given a walkthrough of the stage, a microphone and slide run through.. a lot of stuff is done to help me do well up there and these guys spend money on things only speakers see. But the cognitive science here is simple: anything in motion on stage takes attention away from anything else. Now I’m all for snarks. Speaking in public is hard enough. What problem are you trying to solve? 8 Tips For Managing The Twitter Backchannel During Your Presentation.

Last week Social Times reported on the impact of the Twitter backchannel on dana boyd’s presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo. If you’re speaking to a tech or social media conference soon, you’re probably thinking how you can avoid getting roasted by the backchannel. Here are some tips: 1. Prepare for your audience Thoroughly prepare your presentation taking into account the specific needs of your audience. Audience members on Twitter no longer suffer in polite silence when they’re subjected to poorly thought-out presentations.

Examples or case studies which are out-of-dateThinly-veiled sales pitchesPoorly-designed slides. 2. Ask a colleague to be your Twitter moderator. So discuss with your moderator which issues you want to know about and the number of tweets on each issue that will trigger your moderator to let you know. 3. Set up a monitor on the stage exclusively for this purpose. 4. 5. It’s much easier to present when you can see people’s faces and talk to them. 6. 7. 8. Twitter. Twitter backchannel monitoring. In my eBook How to present with the Twitter backchannel I recommend that the first time you present with a Twitter backchannel, you shouldn’t try and monitor or respond to it in real-time (the term backchannel refers to an online conversation taking place at the same time as people are talking live).

I’ve changed my mind. The catalyst is danah boyd’s experience with the Twitter backchannel at the Web2.0 Expo in New York (the lack of capitalization is not a mistake – danah prefers her name to be written in lowercase and I’ve decided to respect that). Twitter backchannel disaster Danah had prepared a new presentation for the conference and she was working from a script. And then, within the first two minutes, I started hearing rumblings. Here’s what had happened. OMG, seriously? Danah was the only person in the room who didn’t know she was speaking too fast. Decide what backchannel feedback you can respond to Delivery issues For example: Understanding issues what does “xxxxx” mean?