Highlights from #NAIRTL11 (Part 3)
Here’s the long-delayed part three of my report from the the NAIRTL 5th Annual Conference & Galway Symposium on Higher Education, hosted …
The Twitter Backchannel at #CIRTLForum
Here’s a quick analysis of the Twitter backchannel at the CIRTL Network Forum. As of 10:10 am this morning, the #CIRTLForum Twitter …
Backchannel (and Me) in the New York Times
A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel for a story on the use of …
The Backchannel – Dealing with Distraction, Incivility, and Unfairness (#EDUSprint)
This week the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) is organizing a five-day “sprint” on mobile computing in higher education. Yesterday, I blogged about …
Article: Higdon et al. (2011) – Word Clouds for Free-Response Questions (#EDUSprint)
Reference: Higdon, J., Reyerson, K., McFadden, C., & Mummey, K. (2011). Twitter, Wordle, and ChimeIn as student response pedagogies. EDUCAUSE Quarterly 34(1). …
The Backchannel – Opening the Classroom, Managing the Stream
More thoughts on Cliff Atkinson’s The Backchannel… In Chapter 2, Atkinson walks the reader through the process of joining and getting started …
Back to the Backchannel
Twelve months ago, I read Cliff Atkinson’s then-new book, The Backchannel. I took about 15 pages of handwritten notes on the book …
Twitter at the 2010 Lilly Conference on College Teaching (#lilly10)
I was honored to give the opening keynote at the 2010 Lilly Conference on College Teaching at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, …
How to Deliver a Keynote While Sleeping (#estict)
As I mentioned earlier this month, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the 3rd ESTICT (Engaging Students Through In-Class Technologies) …
Clickers and Backchannel at the 2010 Lilly Conference (#lilly10)
I’m attending my very first Lilly Conference this weekend, and I’m pretty excited to be here. I’ve heard so many good things …