EverySlide - Share Your Slides and Run Polls At the Same Time

EverySlide is a free ( for educators and students ) service that allows you to share your slides directly to the iPads, laptops, Chromebook...

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...

Use ChatWing Embed a Backchannel Into Your Blog

ChatWing is a free service that you can use to put a live chatbox into your blog or website. The service actually creates a micro social ne...

GoSoapBox - Survey Your Audience In a Variety of Ways

GoSoapBox is a nice tool for surveying your audience on realtime. I first tried the service a couple of years ago when it was still in beta...

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 Socrative In Your Classroom

The last part of the short presentation about backchannels and informal assessment that I gave at the Texas Library Association's confer...

Three Good Ways to Use Padlet In Your School

This afternoon at the Texas Library Association's annual conference I gave a short presentation about backchannels and informal assessme...

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 ...

Cryptocat - Create Encrypted Backchannels

Cryptocat is an open source project that allows users to create private encrypted chat rooms. Cryptocat can be installed in Firefox, Chrome...

Wallwisher Is Now Padlet

This afternoon I introduced Wallwisher to a group of teachers at Paradise Valley Christian Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. This evening whe...

A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Backchannels & Informal Assessment Tools

Later this week I'm running a workshop on the use of backchannels, polling services, and informal assessment tools. In preparation for ...

12 Tools for Quickly Gathering Informal Feedback from Students

This morning I'm again facilitating a workshop with Greg Kulowiec . At the start of the session we introduced three tools for quickly ga...

Vialogues - Form Discussions Around Videos

Vialogues is a website that is designed to enable users to host conversations around a video. Users can upload videos to Vialogues or use Y...

Live Blogging the Wizard of Oz

Movies are wonderful resources in education, but they are usually associated with passive learning. To keep students (grades 9-12) active ...

Soap Box - A Backchanneling Tool for Tablets, Phones, and Laptops

Soap Box is a new service that enables teachers to gather instant feedback from students through their cell phones, tablets, or laptops. So...

Watch2gether - Watch Videos and Discuss Them at the Same Time

Watch2gether is a neat site through which you can watch YouTube videos and host text chats about them at the same time. It is really quite ...

Backchannels in the Classroom

These are the slides from my workshop about backchannels that I ran this afternoon in Bath, Maine. Earlier this evening I gave a presentatio...

Museum Webquests, Sites and Apps for Using iPods or Laptops in Your Classroom

As I attended the Iowa 1:1 Technology Conference this past week, it has become apparent, now more than ever, that technology is vastly chang...

Mister Thread - Password Protected Backchannels

For more than a year now I've been sharing Todays Meet with anyone interested in using backchannel forums in their classrooms. I like T...

Backchan.nl - A Backchannel With Voting Features

Backchan.nl is an open-source backchannel tool developed at the MIT Media Lab. Using Backchan.nl you can create an online forum through w...