Social Media & the Backchannel: Bringing Twitter and Hotseat to Class EDCI 575 Fall 2010...

Social Media & the Backchannel:

Bringing Twitter and Hotseat to Class

EDCI 575 Fall 2010EDCI 575 Fall 2010

Stephanie KrajicekStephanie Krajicek

By the end of this presentation, you should be able to:

1. Define and give examples of social media.

2. Define these terms: backchannel, snarky, netiquette, tweet, post, follow, hashtag.

3. Explain the purpose of Twitter and Hotseat.

4. Successfully log in and follow discussions in Hotseat.

5. Find a backchannel for a specific event using Twitter (and Hotseat).

6. Participate in a backchannel discussion.

7. List at least three ways backchannels can be used to engage students, deepen content learning, support students, encourage collaboration and create community.

Social media is:

Available to everyone

Web-based

Editable

Enables discussion

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So What?

Shift in paradigm

Publishing

• Lulu (https://www.lulu.com)

• SpoonFlower (http://www.spoonflower.com/)

• Moo (http://us.moo.com/)

• Ponoko (http://www.ponoko.com/)

#savechuck

http://mashable.com/2009/05/04/nbc-save-chuck/

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Dooce vs. Maytag

http://www.dooce.com/2009/08/28/containing-capital-letter-or-two

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What’s a backchannel?

Frontchannel vs. backchannel

sanctioned content and dialog

vs.

whispered conversations, note passing, Twitter comments, blog posts, chat

room discussions

Instructor Learners

Front channel

Backchannel

LearnersInstructor

LearnersInstructor

Instructor Learners

Instructor Learners

What Can Backchannels Bring to the Table?

• Student engagement

• Community building

• Collaboration

• Feedback and interaction

• Learning Support

• Deeper learning

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Common #hashtags for Educators

#edchat#edshare#teachertuesday#followfriday

#ff#comment4kids#lrnchat

Hotseat

“Hotseat, a social networking-powered mobile Web application, creates a collaborative classroom, allowing students to provide near real-time feedback during class and enabling professors to adjust the course content and improve the learning experience. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook or Twitter accounts, sending text messages, or logging in to the Hotseat Web site.”

Hands on HotseatHands on Hotseat

• Log in using your Log in using your career account career account username and username and passwordpassword

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Most discussed

Popular postsRecent posts

Discussion question

Favorite

Lock

Change view

Twitter hash tag

Interact via SMS

Interact via Facebook

Discussion

How can backchannels be used to:

engage?

deepen content learning?

support learning?

encourage collaboration?

create community?

Pros & Cons

• Interaction with content, peers, experts

• Split attention

• Extended classroom • Uncertainty about audience

• Dialogue about insights, opinions

• Opportunities to hijack class

• Ability to ask questions / clarify understanding

• Ability to enhance conversation through comments

• Dissemination of incorrect information

• Make connections • Mob mentality

• Revisit ideas from a new perspective

• Domination of discussion by a few

• Give voice to the wall flowers

• Lack of netiquette

Pros & Cons

Other Tools for Creating

Backchannels• Yammer (https://www.yammer.com/)• Status.net• Poll Everywhere (www.polleverywhere.com/)

• Chatzy (http://www.chatzy.com/)• Today’s Meet (http://todaysmeet.com/)

• Google docs• Zoho docs

Tips for Managing the Backchannel

• Define the role of social media in your classroom

• Give students specific tasks

• Allow students to participate in the manner that they choose

• Set clear expectations and consequences for failure to meet them for behavior, grades, and frequency of posts

• Use the technology that you have available

Tips for Managing the Backchannel

Can you...• Define and give Define and give examples of social examples of social media?media?

• Define: backchannel, Define: backchannel, snarky, netiquette, snarky, netiquette, tweet, post, follow, tweet, post, follow, hashtag?hashtag?

• Explain the purpose of Explain the purpose of Hotseat?Hotseat?

• Log in and follow Log in and follow discussions in Hotseat?discussions in Hotseat?

• Find a backchannel for a Find a backchannel for a specific event in specific event in Twitter and Hotseat?Twitter and Hotseat?

• Participate in a Participate in a backchannel discussion?backchannel discussion?

• List three ways List three ways backchannels engage backchannels engage students, deepen content students, deepen content learning, encourage learning, encourage collaboration, support collaboration, support learning, and / or learning, and / or create community.create community.

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McCarthy, J. & boyd, d. m. (2005). Digital backchannels in shared spaces: Experiences at an academic conference. ACM CHI 2005, April 2-7, 2005, Portland, OR

Social media. (2010, October 6). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 04:08, October 7, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_media&oldid=389142664

White, N. (2009, September 11). Backchannel resources [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://www.fullcirc.com/2009/09/11/backchannel-resources/ (2010. September 29)