Fed up of not participating in lectures? Want to comment on the lecturer’s slides? Have a question?
The University of Hull is developing a system where you may be able to do just that:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2009/10/wildthing.aspx
More about the project here:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscri/wildthing
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Tags: Interactive, lectures, teaching, University of Hull, WILD, Wireless Interactive Lecture Demonstrator
November 17, 2009 at 10:40 am |
I’ve also thought about http://www.sapweb20.com/blog/powerpoint-twitter-tools/ – which lets you incorporate Twitter with Powerpoint. Of course, students would have to have twitter accounts – but at least I’d know they’d have a legitimate reason to be apparently texting during lectures 🙂
November 17, 2009 at 12:21 pm |
Ooooh, might have to try that!
I’ve thought about putting my phone number on screen throughout so students can text in questions – but I’ve not worked out how to deal with the incoming texts *while I talk*. (Maybe need to do shared lecturing or something).
The only snag I can see with twitter to PowerPoint is that I’m often not using PowerPoint but a live web page but maybe I could shrink the screen a bit and have the top edge of a PowerPoint below with the twitter feed on that or something. Food for thought. Thank you.
November 18, 2009 at 2:19 pm |
Or, as we’re just demonstrating Flock & Twitter in the side bar