Backchannel Hints

It has been interesting to read the blog posts about using the backchannel in classrooms. Here is an article How To Present While People Are Twittering with some insights and ideas on the backchannel. The article is from Pistachio, a consulting firm focused on "microsharing." You can read more here. Pistachio focuses on business, but there is much of interest to educators and librarians on their site and blog.

The Backchannel in Church

Amy from the Chaska MILI group blogs at One Foot in Front of the Other... Shes has a great post about the backchannel and using TodaysMeet in her German class (complete with German versions of "text speech"). Even more interesting is the discussion she had with her fellow congregants about the backchannel at church. The post is here.

It is a great example of what we were discussing--the prevalence of backchannel, how it is related to the presenter's content, and more. If her minister does set up Twitter or another backchannel in church, that will really take things to a different level! Hope she keeps us posted.