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Women and the backchannel on This is Rachel Andrew talks about the backchannel comments directed at female presenters at the recent 200th Boagworld podcast. A couple of good ideas were proposed to deal with the issues raised. The chatroom on the Boagworld show was essentially a backchannel, and similar issues have happened in conference backchannels … Continue reading “Backchannel thoughts”
Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome has some thoughts about Twitter in the backchannel at LeWeb 09 in Paris. His ideas are a little different from some of those I’ve mentioned previously in posts about the backchannel. Give a listen. There’s talking on the phone while driving, there’s texting while driving, and now there’s video while driving, … Continue reading “Useful Links: Backchannel, adoption rates, Scrunchup”
product A review by Web Teacher of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (rating: 4 stars) The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever by Cliff Atkinson is from New Riders (2010). Cliff Atkinson is telling stories. He takes real people, … Continue reading “Review: The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever”
Several Tech Blogs Worth Exploring. Oh Yeah, All by Women at JavaWorld is a good source of information for those looking for female tech bloggers, female conference speakers, and inspiration. Web Teacher has posted about using the backchannel in the past. An event at HighEdWeb in Milwaukee earlier this month resulted in a backchannel revolt … Continue reading “Useful Links: Tech blogs, the backchannel”
In apophenia: I want my cyborg life blogger zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) talks about a culture gap she experienced using the backchannel at a recent conference. One of the conference speakers pointed her out as “not paying attention” because she was using the backchannel. My frustration at the anti-computer attitude goes beyond the generational gap … Continue reading “Do You Backchannel?”
Diana Kimball, Alex Leavitt, Kabren Levinson, Archana Ramachandran, Kelly Sutton. All students. They talked about social networks in education. All are working on something as students that relates to technology in education. Ramachandran. It is possible to reach masses of people through systems available now. It can connect both faculty and students. Not all people … Continue reading “SXSW: Blackboards or Backchannels: The Techno-Induced Classroom of Tomorrow”
For a while lately I’ve been noticing that I’m getting search engine traffic from the phrase “backchannel adoption.” I’ve written about the backchannel several times, I’ve even reviewed a book about it. But I’ve not mentioned backchannel adoption. So what’s up with all the searchers who are coming here looking for info who probably aren’t … Continue reading “The importance of a URL”