21st Century Learning

What is a Backchannel?

The backchannel is everything going on in the room that isn't coming from the presenter.The backchannel is where people ask each other questions, pass notes and give immediate feedback.Instead of ignoring the backchannel, TodaysMeet helps you leverage its power.Tapping into the backchannel lets you tailor and direct your presentation to the audience in front of you, and unifying the backchannel means the audience can share insights, questions and answers like never before.

Top 10 Sites for Backchanneling

TodaysMeet helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime.
Here is an example of a back channel: Holliston High School Technology PLC 10-14-10
How to Video: Get Your Students to  Backchannel with Todays's Meet.
Bullying Committee Backchannel
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Poll Everywhere
How to poll your students' ideas and opinions. Receive immediate feedback and create an interactive classroom:





Video: Web 2.0 Presentation Tools


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Dropbox
Dropbox is your very best friend. So what does Dropbox do? It basically synchronizes your documents on different computers. In other words, the moment I "drop" a file into the dropbox folder on my  computer at work, it will appear in the dropbox folder at home. The best part is that it will be the same file. All the changes I make on any file in the dropbox folder will appear in all my dropbox folders. It is also possible to access your folder on any computer. You just have to log on to www.dropbox.com and you will have access to all of your files.


How to Video: Creating a Web Based Drop with Drop.io