Being the beneficiary of the backchannel, I can say it does a great deal to help our synchronous online learning environment. I find, also, that students who become used to collaborating during class feel less awkward about collaborating on group projects ...
Thanks for this post! I see a lot of good advice here for new projects that are starting up. I also see a lot of connections between your post and Rochelle Rodrigo's, in that a physical place or event is essential to grounding a digital community. ...
I want to stress, as I hope I have, that the benefits far outweigh the limitations. One is that even on campus students are able to log in when they can't be on campus. I love the chat feature in both programs that lets side work from the meeting co ...
Matt, as someone who regularly attends MediaCommons meetings at a distance, how is the experience from the other end? How does it compare with being in the classroom? ...
First, I must confess that I have already spent too much of my morning on Antenna. I cannot help but to sympathize with your dilemna. Working on any site takes lots of silent labor. I'm working through the same problem. There are lots of people who ...
Great post. I think it speaks a lot to how communities HAVE to funtion. If all communities involved daily (or even weekly) interaction, we would all have to severely limit the number of communities we were involved in. This post and Bethany's have a ...
I didn't think of the necessarily exclusive nature of cohorts. While defintely not inclusive, I suppose I've always thought of cohorts more as close-knit, which is probably a nicer way of saying the same thing. Somewhat tangentially, your post ...
Thanks for sharing this post. I often see so much publications on not forums when they are trying to get started, but little analysis of how it's going. Something like Screen-L, being over 20 years old, must have gone through several iterations and ...
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