11 janeiro 2010
Twitter in the Classroom
Publicado na newsletter do Elliott Masie.
Uma interessante experiência do uso do twitter na educação a distância.
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Software and Process for Back Channel: At Learning 2009, we experimented with a visible "Twitter Back Channel" at our General Sessions. A number of colleagues have asked about the process and learnings from this approach. Here are the details:
* Pick a # Tag for the event. For example, we used #L2009.
* Ask your participants who have Twitter access in the classroom or conference, to use that in all of their messages.
* We used a web based application called: SPY to display a real time display of these Tweets behind the speakers on a large screen and on a plasma display in front of the podium. SPY is at http://spy.appspot.com
* You just add a search term, eg. #L2009 and SPY will display, in full screen mode, a real time monitoring of the related messages.
* The impact is pretty different. For the speakers, they kept one eye on the display in front of us. I would use this to steer specific questions or comments that were posed by the participants.
* For the audience, they had a cable news like feed to watch in back of the speakers. Some loved it, some hated it. But, it was interesting.
* As a facilitator, I liked the experiment and it really pushed me to drive the conversation in new directions.
* For some speakers, I kept the monitor in front of us on and turned off the back display.
* And, we had one instance of someone who was flooding the screen with very commercial messages from another location. (I chose to turn off the feed for a while, until I could "coach" to them)
* One variation, is to just have a laptop near the instructor/speaker - with a switch to display messages from time to time.
We will see lots of experiments about the best use of a Back Channel in live events. I have seen parallel uses during webinars that often provide a rich flow of context to folks watching a seminar around the globe, even "translating" regional jargon or technical terms.
Uma interessante experiência do uso do twitter na educação a distância.
http://www.masie.com
Software and Process for Back Channel: At Learning 2009, we experimented with a visible "Twitter Back Channel" at our General Sessions. A number of colleagues have asked about the process and learnings from this approach. Here are the details:
* Pick a # Tag for the event. For example, we used #L2009.
* Ask your participants who have Twitter access in the classroom or conference, to use that in all of their messages.
* We used a web based application called: SPY to display a real time display of these Tweets behind the speakers on a large screen and on a plasma display in front of the podium. SPY is at http://spy.appspot.com
* You just add a search term, eg. #L2009 and SPY will display, in full screen mode, a real time monitoring of the related messages.
* The impact is pretty different. For the speakers, they kept one eye on the display in front of us. I would use this to steer specific questions or comments that were posed by the participants.
* For the audience, they had a cable news like feed to watch in back of the speakers. Some loved it, some hated it. But, it was interesting.
* As a facilitator, I liked the experiment and it really pushed me to drive the conversation in new directions.
* For some speakers, I kept the monitor in front of us on and turned off the back display.
* And, we had one instance of someone who was flooding the screen with very commercial messages from another location. (I chose to turn off the feed for a while, until I could "coach" to them)
* One variation, is to just have a laptop near the instructor/speaker - with a switch to display messages from time to time.
We will see lots of experiments about the best use of a Back Channel in live events. I have seen parallel uses during webinars that often provide a rich flow of context to folks watching a seminar around the globe, even "translating" regional jargon or technical terms.
# postado por Alexandre @ 14:50 
