Back Channeling

One of the many benefits of PLNs and connecting with others are the transfer and sharing of some great ideas and technologies that can benefit your classes.  Thanks to @JoelSperanza for sharing this one.  

Back channeling is nothing new, and I think most of us are doing it in some form or another. Google Slides and the questioning tool illustrates how leveraging tech gives teachers another option to help improve student learning. Back channeling is a great tool when you are presenting and would like to encourage student participation, perhaps in the form of comment or questions.

You can watch my intro video or the brief explanation below to check out how to use it.

Ideas on how to use back channeling in the classroom

Here are a few examples of how I use back channeling in my Chinese language classroom, but you could use it for any subject or presentation.

1. Presenting new language and sentence patterns I have the back channel function activated to capture any comments and answer students questions.  
2. The presenter can ask questions to the class during the presentation and show questions or comments made by other students and have everyone discuss together. 
3. Apart from in class activities, this would be really useful for online forums as well.

You don't need to use back channeling all the time, vary your comment and questioning methods like everything else. 

Follow these steps to activate the questioning function.

1. Open up your Google Slide presentation.
2. Go to the Present button.
3. Press the drop down arrow and go to Presenter view.
4. Press Start New in the Teacher's screen.
5. Ask students to type the url into the web address bar.
6. Start presentation.

                
          Here's my video on how you can set up a back channel lesson. 

          

Want to  find out more on back channeling?  

Here are some helpful links;
http://backchannelchat.com/What-Is-A-BackChannel
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/backchannel-student-voice-blended-classroom-beth-holland

Interested in how back channeling works?  Be interested in any feedback, thanks!