[Asis-l] Facebook, Tweet In Class ? You're In The Hotseat @ Purdue

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Colleagues/

Some Like It Hot !

/Gerry

November 2, 2009  / Hotseat Lets Students Facebook, Tweet In Class To
Improve Learning / Steve Tally

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - College students have always talked about their
classes, and lately the conversations have moved to Facebook, Twitter
and text messages, often during the class lecture itself.  Now, in a
clever bit of educational jujitsu, an application developed at Purdue
University uses those backchannel conversations to improve the
students' learning.

"Hotseat is really sort of subversive in a delightful way, taking
technologies more often used for things like dating or spontaneous
get-togethers, and applying them to learning," says Gerry McCartney,
chief information officer and vice president for information
technology. " [snip]

Hotseat is a software application that captures student comments about
a class and allows everyone in the class to view those messages,
including the professor and teaching assistants. Students can post
messages to Hotseat using their Facebook, MySpace or Twitter accounts,
or they can send text messages or simply log into the Hotseat Web
site.

Currently being pilot tested in two Purdue courses, the application
has become a favorite of both instructors and students.

[snip]

Students in the class most often use Hotseat to ask questions about
the material that they don't care to ask in class.

[snip]

Lead developer Kyle Bowen, director of informatics at Purdue, says
students can post messages from a variety of social media sites.
"We're not asking them to go to a new destination or use a new
technology. We're letting them work on their studies from where they
already live digitally ... ."

As an advanced Web 2.0 technology, Hotseat requires the extra
bandwidth provided by Purdue's new campus network,  ... . The network,
and Hotseat, are expected to be fully deployed across the West
Lafayette campus during the 2010-11 academic year.

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YouTube Videos > Hotseat At Purdue University ; What Is Hotseat In
Your Own Words?

Hotseat Web Site

Facebook Page (Public) And Facebook App (Purdue Community Only) At

[ http://tinyurl.com/y88z39t  ]

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