Comments on: Twitter during Lectures

By: Elizabeth Han

Elizabeth Han — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:32:56 +0000

That is a really great idea.

Re: aqua’s comment, at my school, University of Toronto, the undergraduate life science tutorials and lectures use iClickers extensively to gauge understanding and zeitgeist in the middle of a session.

I was also thinking that a little “Twitter break” would also be useful in a Group Medical Visit. If it’s combined with an auto-trend-generator like the “what’s popular in this column” feature in Tweetdeck, team leaders could also see the major (possibly non obvious issues) right away. Observing medical students would benefit from the insight into patients’ expression patterns as well.

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By: c.benson

c.benson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:40:53 +0000

This is something that is very common in the technology industry especially when attending large conferences – it really works and brings in individuals who might not ask a question by standing up in a crowd.

By: aqua

aqua — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:33:50 +0000

What a great idea. Lectures can be great if you have an innovative lecturer(actually I’m a lecture geek…I love them).

I have heard of another way to make lectures interactive…a lecturer (I believe at the University of British Columbia..UBC in the math(?)dept) has his students use some kind of voting remote control type device to answer multiple choice type questions throughout the lecture.

Each student can see their own results and the class & professor can see the class’s overall results…helping both the students and the professor focus in on areas where students are having difficulty.