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Pages45-52_CA36.pdf (Objet application/pdf) TodaysMeet Wikis for Everyone - Wikispaces Backchannels and Microblogging Streams These two things are really kissing cousins. BackchannelThe backchannel has really become my favorite tool of choice when I'm presenting. I've purchased an inexpensive ad-free chat room at Chatzy that is password protected and use it for my backchannels when I present. I like to find two people to help: one to serve as Google Jockey (a/k/a Link dropper) and another to serve as a moderator -- posing questions to me when I take a breath and ask. Gomeric Hill talked about the backchannel on a blog post. "The WebEx interface they were using to present Vicki’s Flat Classroom project has a chat that was used throughout her presentation as a backchannel discussion. Here was my response: I think this is a great post for several reasons:1) It demonstrates HOW things are happening now. Microblogging streamsThese are RSS feeds or searches enabled by the use of a twitter search engine like Terraminds -- searching on a keyword. Aggregating ourselvesSo, let me pose these questions:

Tweet-conférence expérimentale Invité à faire une présentation sur l'impact de l'innovation sur le journalisme je me suis lancé dans une expérience consistant à tweeter ma propre présentation sans autre support visuel que la page de mon compte Twitter. C'était la semaine dernière dans le cadre du colloque 4M (Montpellier, Méditerranée, Médias, Mutations) organisé par le CFI (Canal France International). C'était sans filet car, le matin encore, je ne savais pas comment faire pour envoyer les tweets à mesure que je parlais et pour qu'ils apparaissent "en temps réel". C'est Damian Van Achter (@davanac) qui m'a donné le truc au petit déjeuner : l'application Twitter pour Mac (j'utilise HootSuite d'habitude) qui permet de préparer des tweets qui restent sur l'écran et qu'on envoie le moment venu. Premier exercice, extrêmement salutaire : transformer ma présentation en 29 messages d'environ 120 caractères chacun (de façon à ce qu'ils puissent être re-tweetés facilement). Reste à savoir si ça vaut la peine.

Make your meetings memorable Digital Natives » Backchannels and Mythbusting: DN at Berkman@10 As the school year winds to a close and the summer hovers ahead, things are about to switch up a bit at the Digital Natives Project. More on that soon, in a series of farewell-for-now posts from myself and the rest of the 2007-2008 interns. But before we switch things up completely, I wanted to spend a moment thinking about the fascinating Digital Natives Mythbusting discussion that took place at the Berkman@10 conference on May 16. Since I ended up running the question tool for the discussion, I got a first-hand peek into how “backchannels” can work in conference settings. The second backchannel was Twitter—a sort of all-purpose, soundbite-based, socially-oriented repository for quick “tweets” about conference proceedings. The third backchannel, though, was to me the most interesting of all. In the Digital Natives Mythbusting discussion, the irony was thick and delightful. The discussion provides a window into an alternate view of DN issues.

Twitter : les principaux hashtags de la communauté éducative mondiale Twitter connaît un véritable succès dans la communauté éducative francophone. Le nombre d’acteurs de l’éducation ayant un compte ne cesse de croître et les enseignants sont maintenant rejoints par les chefs d’établissements et les autres personnels d’encadrement. L’échange d’informations et les débats d’idées font partie des usages dominants. Les hashtags sont des mots-clés ajoutés par les twitterers dans leurs tweets afin de les rattacher à un flux d’échange spécifique. Les hashtags généralistes : trouver une aiguille dans une botte de tweets #claved : il est utilisé pour s’adresser à la communauté éducative francophone ou chercher des informations générales en relation avec l’enseignement dans la sphère francophone. #edchat : destiné aux enseignants qui souhaitent échanger sur des thématiques générales intéressant la communauté éducative dans son ensemble. #k12 : ce hashtag permet d’échanger sur des questions relatives à l’enseignement secondaire

for Skype – Call and video recording – easy and quick The Silent Room Tone I didn't actually get to see the now infamous Mark Zuckerberg interview yesterday at SXSW, but having read through about six thousand blog posts about it, I feel as though I've seen it. And, naturally, I have some thoughts about what happened, some of which connect to what happened the day before when I was on the same stage talking with Henry Jenkins. Most accounts of the interview have talked about the role that the Twitter "back channel" played in the event. I probably did more than fifty public appearances last year in front of crowds -- speeches, conversations, interviews, panel discussions, etc. This can be very hard to gauge, because the information channels that flow back from an audience to a speaker are very narrow ones. This is the main reason that I compulsively make jokes when I'm in front of a crowd. But most of the time the crowd is quiet and unknowable. But backchannels like Twitter change all that. I'm not sure what to make of this.