A Quick Comparison of Five Popular Backchannel and Informal Assessment Tools

During yesterday's webinar on backchannels and informal assessment tools Poida suggested that I create a chart comparing the key featur...

Webinar Recording - A Teacher's Guide to Backchannels & Informal Assessments

Earlier this evening I hosted a free webinar on using backchannel and informal assessment tools. In the recording embedding below I demonstr...

Updated - A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment

Back in January I published a guide to using backchannels in the classroom. Shortly after I published that guide Wallwisher changed its name...

5 Benefits of Using Backchannels In Your Classroom

Over the last two weeks I've introduced a lot of teachers to using Padlet, TodaysMeet, and Socrative in their classrooms. All three of t...

Three Good Ways to Use TodaysMeet in Your Classroom

TodaysMeet.com  is a completely free service for hosting backchannel discussions. Over the years I’ve used it in a ...

NextUp Helps Keep Your Meetings on Schedule

From the same person that brought us the super-useful backchannel service TodaysMeet comes NextUp . NextUp is a free service that is design...

How-to Video - Today's Meet

I've written about using Today's Meet for classroom backchannels a number of times. I've also included directions for using it ...

Two Examples of Backchannels in Elementary School

Yesterday, during my Reform Symposium presentation on the use of backchannels in the classroom there were some questions about the appropri...