TY - GEN
T1 - Communication patterns for a classroom public digital backchannel
AU - Du, Honglu
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Carroll, John
PY - 2012/11/19
Y1 - 2012/11/19
N2 - Digital backchannels have become an increasingly important field of study for researchers investigating educational technologies. We designed and deployed one such backchannel integrated with a public display - ClassCommons - in a 15-week field study that took place in a university classroom. We extracted and analyzed the communication patterns that emerged in the use of Class-Commons. In this paper, we use these data to address the following research questions: how do students appropriate public digital backchannels in classrooms, what communication patterns are typical in classroom digital public backchannels, how if at all do students' participation in the digital public backchannels evolve over an extended period of time and what are the characteristics of the messages that get more responses from other students?
AB - Digital backchannels have become an increasingly important field of study for researchers investigating educational technologies. We designed and deployed one such backchannel integrated with a public display - ClassCommons - in a 15-week field study that took place in a university classroom. We extracted and analyzed the communication patterns that emerged in the use of Class-Commons. In this paper, we use these data to address the following research questions: how do students appropriate public digital backchannels in classrooms, what communication patterns are typical in classroom digital public backchannels, how if at all do students' participation in the digital public backchannels evolve over an extended period of time and what are the characteristics of the messages that get more responses from other students?
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U2 - 10.1145/2379057.2379081
DO - 10.1145/2379057.2379081
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869067578
SN - 9781450314978
T3 - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 127
EP - 136
BT - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
T2 - 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -