Twitter, Backchannel & Presenting

I have a philosophy, “Don’t reinvent the wheel, find the best resources then link and reference instead.” And I’ve just come across one.

I’m interested in using the backchannel within educational presentations and have written and vlogged about the concept here:

The Microblog Backchannel

The Twitter Experiment – Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas

Backchannel or Badchannel?

Well, Olivia Mitchell has written an excellent resource detailing the use of the backchannel and how to manage it as a presenter. She’s written about it in a post, and I’m including a link to the pdf ebook, “How to present with Twitter (and other backchannels)”.

 

 

The Twitter Experiment – Bringing Twitter to the Classroom at UT Dallas

Just found this video example of using Twitter for backchanel in class. It ties into one of my detailed posts on Never Mind the Pedagogy.

more about “Kesmit-ing: The Twitter Experiment – …“, posted with vodpod

10 Technologies for educators

It’s reassuring when you chance upon something that affirms what you’ve set out to do. That happened to me today when I came across “10 internet technologies that educators should be informed about“.Yep, this is part of what I’m doing, identifying the useful stuff for educators, and providing appropriate application with examples.

e.g.

Twitter & the backchannel

Etherpad & the whiteboard replacement

Vuvox / Glogster & visual presentation