{"id":3282,"date":"2014-05-15T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2022-06-14T01:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:11:39","slug":"using-a-backchannel-to-engage-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/using-a-backchannel-to-engage-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Using a Backchannel to Engage Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you looking for new ways to engage more of your students? Do you want to provide more authentic learning opportunities for your students? Searching for some way to help students write concisely, critically examine arguments, or take notes? One strategy you might consider using is a \u201cbackchannel\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Michelle Rodems, program manager at the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies (SIGS) and at the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning suggests using a \u201cbackchannel<\/a>\u201d to give your students a secondary way to communicate with you or each other. <\/p>\n

Want to know more? Read Dr. Rodems' article on \"Using a Backchannel to Engage Students<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you looking for new ways to engage more of your students? Do you want to provide more authentic learning opportunities for your students? Searching for some way to help students write concisely, critically examine arguments, or take notes? One strategy you might consider using is a \u201cbackchannel\u201d Dr. Michelle Rodems, program manager at the ...continue reading \"Using a Backchannel to Engage Students\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,298],"class_list":{"0":"post-3282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-backchannel","8":"tag-student-engagement","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-QW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10824,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/using-a-backchannel-for-student-engagement\/","url_meta":{"origin":3282,"position":0},"title":"Using a Backchannel for Student Engagement","author":"Janice Florent","date":"June 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A backchannel communication, in an educational context, is a secondary electronic conversation that takes place at or near the same time as a lecture, instructor-led learning activity, or conference session. 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