Backchannel Tips

(best viewed at 800 x 600)

http://www.shambles.net

Backchannel Tips

Add a link

Top of page

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels
http://
A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools by richardbyrne

Back-channeling in the Classroom : Webinar Archive
http://bit.ly/b1ScIo
Back-channeling in the Classroom : Webinar Archive
Back-talk in the classroom is not good, but back-channeling is great! In this session participants will learn about free micro-blogging services, polling services, and chat services that they can leverage to improve in-classroom conversations and extend those conversations beyond the physical classroom. These techniques will get even the most shy of students involved in classroom discussions.

Backchannels in the classroom
http://bit.ly/bAHf2W

Backchannels in the classroom

View more presentations from Richard Byrne.

Spectacle at Web2.0 Expo
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/11/24
Spectacle at Web2.0 Expo
Last week, I gave a talk at Web2.0 Expo. From my perspective, I did a dreadful job at delivering my message.
Yet, the context around my talk sparked a broad conversation about the implications of turning the backchannel into part of the frontchannel.

5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster
http://mashable.com/2010/03/07/twitter-backchannel/
5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster
What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notice that your audience is looking down, busily typing on their laptops and smartphones? And what about when you get the sense that they are turning against you?
This new dynamic has led to high-profile blowups between presenters and audiences, which makes it more important than ever for presenters to do the right things to avoid similar disasters.

Audiences Gone Wild
http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/07/audiences-gone-.html
"Audiences Gone Wild" [read "The Back Channel of Conference Presentations"]

Webinar : Back Channel Chat in the Classroom
http://bit.ly/adp9Zv
Webinar Archived: Back Channel Chat in the Classroom
Special Guest: Scott Snyder
One hour webinar part of the Classroom 2.0 series using Elluminate .. February 2010
Archived on this page in different formats.
Good introduction to uses in the classroom ... do and don't .. and tools with classroom examples.

10 Reasons to try Backchannel Chat
http://www.utechtips.com/10-reasons-to-try-backchannel-chat/
10 Reasons to try Backchannel Chat
What is Backchannel Chat? It’s like note-taking at a lecture, but notes are shared with anyone who has the URL. They might be people in the room with you, but they could also be anywhere in the world.
At ETC09, this meant that while the keynote speaker was presenting, a group of us were on our laptops, sharing notes about the presentation, though there were some people in different countries tuning in.
After a few minutes, I got the hang of it and managed to keep up enough to contribute to the discussion. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and now I’m completely sold.
So how does this relate to my class? ...

On BackChanneling with learners
http://bit.ly/9zOXG9
On BackChanneling with learners (and Tinychat and TodaysMeet)

The Backchannel Blues
http://bit.ly/bXae2t
The Backchannel Blues: what to do when you're on stage and the backchannel is blasting you.
... how a lively backchannel at a conference can (or should) influence and change the live event.
If the presenters had been privy to the waves of snark accosting them via Twitter, what would they have done?
Presenters in this instance have three basic options ....

Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces
http://interrelativity.com/joe/publications/DigitalBackchannels-CHI2005.pdf
Digital Backchannels in Shared Physical Spaces: Experiences at an Academic Conference
There are a variety of digital tools for enabling people who are physically separated by time and space to communicate and collaborate.
Widespread use of some of these tools, such as instant messaging and group chat, coupled with the increasingly availability of wireless Internet access, have created new opportunities for using these collaboration tools by people sharing physical spaces in real time.
Such ‘digital backchannels’ affect interactions and experiences in a variety of ways, depending on the spaces, the participants, and the relationships among them.

The Effect of Backchannel Interactions on Cognitive Load
http://bit.ly/bOHdCm
The Effect of Backchannel Interactions on Cognitive Load
The focus of this report is to review the literature for assessments of the effect of computer-mediated backchannel interaction during live instructional presentation.
The goal is to consider the i...

The Backchannel Agreement
http://backchannelbook.pbworks.com/backchannel_agreement
The Backchannel Agreement
For the audience and presenter

Backchannel Modes
http://bit.ly/dpMNPN
Backchannel Modes
So I’m one of those people that conference speakers hate. I sit in the audience, 17” Powerbook open in my lap, with IRC windows, AIM chats, blog entry screens, and web pages drawing my attention away from their faces.
The thing is, they really don’t have any less of my attention than they used to, before I started multitasking in meetings. It’s just more visually obvious now.
I can consistently identify three modes in a non-projected IRC channel—and a fourth that kicks in when the channel is public (or the hecklebot is in play).

Confessions of a backchannel queen
http://bit.ly/cPXTr6
Confessions of a backchannel queen
In a pre-WiFi world, I would have sat quietly at my table, listened a bit, doodled a bit more, maybe contemplated (but not acted on) introducing myself to some of the luminaries in the room during breaks
But today the room was laptop-enabled, with power and Wifi to spare...so I headed straight for IRC.

Bridging Diverse Groups
http://bit.ly/cwVlEH
Backchanneling. I finally realized why selective backchanneling irks me. One thing that i bank on at conferences is that the attendees create a cohesive view of being annoyed with the conference. This happens because no one attends a conference for the content; they attend to talk to people.
The thing about the IRC backchannel is that it's *obvious* that there is a second-place to the conference.

The Back Channel of Conference Presentations
http://bit.ly/adkXrS
The Back Channel of Conference Presentations
What was infinitely more compelling than our own presentation was the fact that throughout the room (and well beyond the 4 walls themselves) were a wide range of folks who were "deconstructing" the presentation in real time via Skype | Twitter | you name it.

How to Present While People are Twittering
http://pistachioconsulting.com/twitter-presentations/
How to Present While People are Twittering
People used to whisper to each other or pass hand-scribbled notes during presentations.
Now these notes are going digital on Twitter or via conference-provided chat rooms.
Up until now, this back-channel has been mainly confined to the Internet industry and technology conferences. However, a survey of leadership conferences from Weber Shandwick shows that there is a significant increase in blogging and twittering at conferences.

Backchannel Services
http://slandr.net/about.php
Backchannel Services
running live onscreen fed by im, twitter, jaiku, and plain old sms.
nice for your event? use it to stimulate interaction, start discussions, voting-rounds or for fun. send pictures directly from your phone* to the Backchannel(s).
A backchannel is a place where visitors come together in a digital manner to rant about their common subject which in most cases is a conference or presentation they are attending at that very moment'.

Using twitter as a participation tool
http://bit.ly/cQJG3b
8 things I learnt about using twitter as a participation tool
I presented a session remotely at the Presentation Camp at Stanford University, California.
My session was on “How to engage your audience with Twitter” and I tried to do exactly that during my presentation.
I used two strategies that took into account that my audience would be tweeting. These are the strategies ....

Backchannel bookmarked links on Delicious
http://bit.ly/aNzLN3
Backchannel bookmarked links on Delicious ... Social Bookmarks

Backchannel Tips
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/BCtips/
In Wikipedia "Backchannel" is defined as ...
... the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks. The term was coined in the field of Linguistics to describe listeners' behaviours during verbal communication, Victor Yngve 1970.
The term "backchannel" generally refers to online conversation about the topic or the speaker. Occasionally backchannel provides audience members a chance to fact-check the presentation. This area of Shambles lists some of the tools that can be used to Backchannel in a meeting, conference, talk .. or your classroom.
There is a related area on Shambles that lists tools for Backchannelling at http://bit.ly/backchanneltools