Part of this whole "backchannel" communication blitz is that its happening at UWM-- this is like the epicenter of the Twittering, Facebooking, and MySpacing for Education earthquake. There is a grant right now for research at UWM exploring how to use these social media for educational purposes.
This link is to a blog kept by one of the main people at UWM's Learning Technology Center-- about using Twitter in the classroom.
http://professorjoosten.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-can-twitter-be-used-in-blended-and.html
I'm curious about what all of you think about this.
In particular, the way Joosten describes the use of Twitter reminds of of exactly how section 25 was using this Blog the other day during the Library instruction session-- they were talking about the Librarian's demonstration while it was going on, complaining, asking questions, and working together to figure it out (or not, as the case may be). Here are the links to people's blog entries made during the Library Class session, from section 025:
Especially the last one-- in the Comments, was actually really productive. And because I saw it-- I was able to ask the Librarian to help people figure out how to export sources into RefWorks because I could see that not everybody was getting it. People very naturally used the blogging space for this "backchannel" communication because they had computers in front of them and *could*. And some of it was definitely "backchannel" communication. . .
But you can Tweet right from your cell phone-- all you need is txt messaging.
How useful do you think Twitter could be in an education setting? Even given that, like the blog postings during the Library session, it could also be a "distraction" . .?
-Adam
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