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Using a Back channel in a Blended Classroom. Using Backchannel Tools in a Blended Classroom June is Tech Month at school. Colleagues are sharing the use of a web tool in a forum style CPD during this month. I'm currently Trialling "Titanpad" as a backchannel. The backchannel has been used as a supplement to a conference presentation. I first encountered it a couple of years ago at a 21st Century learning conference.
The presenter at the time Chris Smith, aka Shamblesguru used an etherpad pad as a backchannel for his session on Video Tools in the ESL classroom. Chris convinced me that this was far superior to a google document. What is a backchannel? A backchannel is an synchonous conversation that takes place before, during or after a meeting. Users then post content such as discussions, comments, resources, insights or observations directly onto the pad. Uses of Backchannel -A Faculty meeting decides to combine minutes on a Titan Pad. Key Questions to consider: Why is it better than a shared google document? Updated - A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment.
Home / Blended Learning. Technology Enhanced Learning Blog | eLearning, mLearning, Blackboard, Blogging, Social Media, and the stuff in between / David Hopkins. EDge21. In the 1984 film Teachers, Royal Dano played a teacher named Ditto Stiles. Ditto was known for having virtually no interactions with his students. He had established a system by which students automatically distributed "ditto" worksheets that would be collected at the end of the class by other students. Throughout the class, Ditto would hide behind a newspaper. Ultimately, Ditto dies in the classroom, but isn't discovered until the end of the day as his students continue to follow the standard routine.
In the following clip, Ditto gets into a confrontation with the school psychologist over the use of the Ditto machine. If you are an educator of a certain age (as am I), you likely have many memories, both good and maybe not so good, of the “Ditto machine. " In North America, "Ditto" is a brand name which was commonly used for a spirit duplicator (referred to as a Banda machine in the UK, a Roneo in France and Australia). More Ditto in Pop Culture. GENERAL RESOURCES: Educational Technologies and Tools | Zen Parry Educator. The Reed Diaries. Elearning | Your eLearning World. Learning & Collaboration Blog. E-Learning Infographics - The No.1 Source for the Best Education Infographics.
DynaMind eLearning – Tailoring eLearning solutions | DynaMind eLearning. We are currently working on an interesting e-learning development project for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It is a course to ensure IFRC staff and partners apply the IFRC Principles and Rules in their day-to-day work. Legal compliance courses are some of the most boring e-learning you will find out there. It’s a great challenge to make compliance training interesting and to get the learner hooked.
What’s so hard? The mistake most often made is to list and explain all the rules followed by a recall quiz. No need to do this. We need to have a much closer look at the root causes of the problem. Application is an even bigger problem. If there are just a couple of rules to comply with, it’s easy. But what do you do with over a hundred rules? We use the principle – borrowed from traditional distance learning design – that is called ‘wrap around’. This is some of the feedback we got from people who took the ACFID Code of Conduct course: Technology Enhanced Learning | Thoughts and ideas from the team at York St John University.