Slidecasting: Where Learning Happens on the Back-Channel

While many have yet to discover the wonders of intentional back-channel discussions, Peter Purgathofer and his colleages at the University of Technology, in Vienna Austria, have continued to develop Slidecasting 2.0 as a way to focus back-channel discussions in a way that engages students in active, participatory learning.

If you ever find yourself preparing slideshows, or presenting workshops in a lecture format, you'll be very interested to learn more about Slidecasting, and to revel in Peter's passion for learning.



If you'd like to learn more about the origins of this project, check out the Slidecasting 2.0 Blog or visit our first conversation from the spring of 2008.

Massive Multiplayer e-Learning

At lunchtime yesterday, I had the opportunity to meet with Peter Purgathofer from the Informatics Faculty at the Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology in Vienna Austria. After some evening editing, I pared our conversation down to this 22 minute 'lesson' on Slidecasting 2.0, an interactive technology in its infancy, that encourages lecture audiences to be active learners, by engaging attaching comments, links, references, and questions to the presenter's slides. The resulting 'rich notes' are then available online for further editing and sharing. If this open source project goes global, PowerPoint lectures may soon be recognized as interactive events!



Peter is truly an engaging teacher, and this while this video is narrow in scope, it was my great pleasure to participate in a conversation with such an enthusiastic teacher-learner. I've included an additional snippet of our conversation on the most recent Teacher 2.0 podcast.