Possible cheap alternative to clicker system?

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System. Free plan up to 30 respondents.

Free file sharing and net meeting. No download req'd & includes doc & browser share, text editor and whiteboard.

inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies.

easy to use tool to embed documents on any website and can mark up the documents for otherts to see. Also provides usage analytics & access controls.

This might be a nice way to both attach more specific help to online handouts and tutorials, giving them more context. You might even place a video tutorial made by another organization, for example, in the context of your own environment so students can make better sense of it in relation to your own library's resources.

from: lauren's library blog

article from Search Engine Watch

Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).

from Hidden Peanuts blog

crazy idea?: create a SUNY-wide alternate reality game that invites students from all over SUNY to collaborate to solve a complex mystery or puzzle of some kind and that involves using a variety of library and scholarly resources. Maybe even provide a forum for students to communicate and collaborate. If solved, SUNY libraries, for example, could donate books or other resources to some charity or cause?

possible tool 4 info lit instr via creative, reflective, multimedia research topic posters?

zooming presentation editor

helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.