Comments on: Trying Out HootCourse, a Course Communication and Backchannel Tool http://derekbruff.com/site/blog/2010/06/23/trying-out-hootcourse-a-course-communication-and-backchannel-tool/ Author of Teaching with Classroom Response Systems Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tweets that mention Trying Out HootCourse, a Course Communication and Backchannel Tool - Derek Bruff -- Topsy.com http://derekbruff.com/site/blog/2010/06/23/trying-out-hootcourse-a-course-communication-and-backchannel-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Tweets that mention Trying Out HootCourse, a Course Communication and Backchannel Tool - Derek Bruff -- Topsy.com Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:31:08 +0000 http://derekbruff.com/site/?p=305#comment-195 [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Kelvin Thompson, Derek Bruff. Derek Bruff said: @kthompso Yeah, I like the blog connection, too. Use it to post some initial thoughts on @HootCourse to my blog: http://is.gd/dDsgd [...] [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Kelvin Thompson, Derek Bruff. Derek Bruff said: @kthompso Yeah, I like the blog connection, too. Use it to post some initial thoughts on @HootCourse to my blog: http://is.gd/dDsgd [...]

]]> By: admin http://derekbruff.com/site/blog/2010/06/23/trying-out-hootcourse-a-course-communication-and-backchannel-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-21 admin Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:05:40 +0000 http://derekbruff.com/site/?p=305#comment-21 I see a lot of potential as Twitter as a backchannel tool, but Twitter is pretty unfamiliar territory to most students. HootCourse overcomes barrier to some extent by allowing students to login using their Facebook accounts and by making the course Twitter stream embeddable on course Web pages. Letting students contribute to the HootCourse from within Facebook would be even better, but apparently, Facebook's architecture makes this challenging. I'll have more thoughts on HootCourse later, I'm sure... I see a lot of potential as Twitter as a backchannel tool, but Twitter is pretty unfamiliar territory to most students. HootCourse overcomes barrier to some extent by allowing students to login using their Facebook accounts and by making the course Twitter stream embeddable on course Web pages. Letting students contribute to the HootCourse from within Facebook would be even better, but apparently, Facebook’s architecture makes this challenging.

I’ll have more thoughts on HootCourse later, I’m sure…

]]> By: Stephanie Chasteen http://derekbruff.com/site/blog/2010/06/23/trying-out-hootcourse-a-course-communication-and-backchannel-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Stephanie Chasteen Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:19:30 +0000 http://derekbruff.com/site/?p=305#comment-19 This looks like a fantastic tool, Derek, and just the kind of thing I've been looking to recommend for backchannel conversation. If you find out more, or try it, I'll be keenly interested. I'll be on a panel at the Am. Assoc. of PHysics Teachers next month, talking about positive uses of social media in the classroom. This looks like the best of all worlds -- a familiar tool, tweaked for classroom use. This looks like a fantastic tool, Derek, and just the kind of thing I’ve been looking to recommend for backchannel conversation. If you find out more, or try it, I’ll be keenly interested. I’ll be on a panel at the Am. Assoc. of PHysics Teachers next month, talking about positive uses of social media in the classroom. This looks like the best of all worlds — a familiar tool, tweaked for classroom use.

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