Hotseat: social networking for the classroom
November 25th, 2009 by Matt Lingard.
I wrote last month that I love lectures. As part of that post I highlighted the use of Twitter in the classroom by a History lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas.
In a similar vein Purdue University have developed and are trialling a social-networking tool for the classroom called Hotseat. It allows students to give feedback, ask questions & have mini-discussions initiated by the lecturer (or themselves) while attending classes. The great thing about Hotseat is that students aren’t restricted to a particular input method, there are many ways students can contribute – via the website, SMS, Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. There also seem to be iPhone/iPod Touch Apps.
There are a couple of videos from Purdue explaining it further: Hotseat at Purdue University
What is Hotseat in your own words?
It’s not clear from the website whether Hotseat will be available to the wider world (for purchase or otherwise).
Posted in Laptops, Mobile, Social software, Teaching, learning
One Response to “Hotseat: social networking for the classroom”
By AJ Cann on Nov 25, 2009
Personally, if I wasn’t going to use Twitter (and I can understand why some people may not want to for this purpose), I’d use a FriendFeed group for threaded micro-comments in this type of environment.