Comments on: Audience Response in Professional Presentations http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=180 Resources for engaging and assessing students with clickers Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: derekbruff http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=180&cpage=1#comment-311 derekbruff Sun, 03 May 2009 20:34:20 +0000 http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=180#comment-311 Thanks for the comment. I've learned a lot about presentations from the Duarte Design blog (and the other resources I mentioned in my post), but until now, I've seen little in the world of presentation design about technology-enhanced audience feedback / interactivity has been made. It's great to see some connections being made on that topic. Backchannel feedback of this sort poses a couple of related challenges, I think. One is the technological challenge you described in your post. The other is the facilitation challenge: How does one respond productively during or after a presentation to this kind of backchannel? And there's potential for a nice intersection of solutions here. It would be great to see software that can meaningfully aggregate, summarize, or visualize free-response backchannel feedback. A tool like that would potentially make free-response feedback as easy to leverage as clicker responses shown on a bar chart. And here's a little more on that other domain I mentioned, church services. Time has an article out today on <a href="http://is.gd/wmSL" rel="nofollow">pastors encouraging their church members to Twitter during sermons</a>. You raise a good point in your blog about the public nature of Twitter. I can see something like Meebo or Poll Everywhere having value in church settings since attendees could participate in the backchannel more anonymously. Thanks for the comment. I’ve learned a lot about presentations from the Duarte Design blog (and the other resources I mentioned in my post), but until now, I’ve seen little in the world of presentation design about technology-enhanced audience feedback / interactivity has been made. It’s great to see some connections being made on that topic.

Backchannel feedback of this sort poses a couple of related challenges, I think. One is the technological challenge you described in your post. The other is the facilitation challenge: How does one respond productively during or after a presentation to this kind of backchannel? And there’s potential for a nice intersection of solutions here. It would be great to see software that can meaningfully aggregate, summarize, or visualize free-response backchannel feedback. A tool like that would potentially make free-response feedback as easy to leverage as clicker responses shown on a bar chart.

And here’s a little more on that other domain I mentioned, church services. Time has an article out today on pastors encouraging their church members to Twitter during sermons. You raise a good point in your blog about the public nature of Twitter. I can see something like Meebo or Poll Everywhere having value in church settings since attendees could participate in the backchannel more anonymously.

]]> By: Chris Iufer http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=180&cpage=1#comment-307 Chris Iufer Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:14:25 +0000 http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/?p=180#comment-307 I really enjoyed your input on this. It hadn't occurred to me that the K12 system has already been there--done that in regards to audience polling. I asked my wife (a California HS teacher) about clickers after reading your comment and she confirmed that they use them in various class exercises. *smacks forehead. Clickers were outside the bounds of Nancy's needs, but it's still a viable solution to the root problem. I guess I missed out when I was in school because this kind of technology would have been a real highlight in my day. Your revelation about crossing domains is gold. I don't doubt that we have a lot to learn and share with the Education community because upon deeper analysis we are really trying to solve the same problems. I really enjoyed your input on this. It hadn’t occurred to me that the K12 system has already been there–done that in regards to audience polling. I asked my wife (a California HS teacher) about clickers after reading your comment and she confirmed that they use them in various class exercises. *smacks forehead. Clickers were outside the bounds of Nancy’s needs, but it’s still a viable solution to the root problem.

I guess I missed out when I was in school because this kind of technology would have been a real highlight in my day. Your revelation about crossing domains is gold. I don’t doubt that we have a lot to learn and share with the Education community because upon deeper analysis we are really trying to solve the same problems.

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