Colleagues/ Some Like It Hot ! /Gerry November 2, 2009 / Hotseat Lets Students Facebook, Tweet In Class To Improve Learning / Steve Tally WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - College students have always talked about their classes, and lately the conversations have moved to Facebook, Twitter and text messages, often during the class lecture itself. Now, in a clever bit of educational jujitsu, an application developed at Purdue University uses those backchannel conversations to improve the students' learning. "Hotseat is really sort of subversive in a delightful way, taking technologies more often used for things like dating or spontaneous get-togethers, and applying them to learning," says Gerry McCartney, chief information officer and vice president for information technology. " [snip] Hotseat is a software application that captures student comments about a class and allows everyone in the class to view those messages, including the professor and teaching assistants. Students can post messages to Hotseat using their Facebook, MySpace or Twitter accounts, or they can send text messages or simply log into the Hotseat Web site. Currently being pilot tested in two Purdue courses, the application has become a favorite of both instructors and students. [snip] Students in the class most often use Hotseat to ask questions about the material that they don't care to ask in class. [snip] Lead developer Kyle Bowen, director of informatics at Purdue, says students can post messages from a variety of social media sites. "We're not asking them to go to a new destination or use a new technology. We're letting them work on their studies from where they already live digitally ... ." As an advanced Web 2.0 technology, Hotseat requires the extra bandwidth provided by Purdue's new campus network, ... . The network, and Hotseat, are expected to be fully deployed across the West Lafayette campus during the 2010-11 academic year. Links To >>> Full Press Release YouTube Videos > Hotseat At Purdue University ; What Is Hotseat In Your Own Words? Hotseat Web Site Facebook Page (Public) And Facebook App (Purdue Community Only) At [ http://tinyurl.com/y88z39t ] !!! Thanks To / Mashable: The Social Media Guide / For The HeadsUp !!! As Previously Requested > I Am Greatly In Any / All Library ; Educational Uses / Applications Of Twitter / Other Microblogging Technologies || Please Post As A Comment(s) On The Blog Entry ... Thanks A Million !!! Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu There Is No Answer, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace