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Educational Uses of Back Channels for Conferences, Museums, and Informal Learning Spaces

Museum 2.0

I set it up, demonstrated it in the first session, and then participants were off to the races with their own laptops. Consider, for example, the rich conversation on Flickr about this image from the Chicago World's Fair. This is a really simple online chat interface that allows you to share messages of 140 characters or less.

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