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"The 11th graders in Mrs. Olson's class said the backchannel had widened their appreciation of one another. "Everybody is heard in our class," said Leah Postman, 17. Janae Smith, also 17, said, "It's made me see my peers as more intelligent, seeing their thought process and begin to understand them on a deeper level." "

BabelWith.me is a backchannel chat utility that provides instant translation.

Twitter can be used as a backchannel, encouraging reflection and conversation between kids. Twitter can give students a voice that they haven't generally had. Twitter can become a place to imagine. In the end, using Twitter in high school classrooms makes sense mostly because it is a social space that has already been embraced by today's teens.

This looks interesting... app uses backchannel, statuses, polling, to take temperature of your class.