http://mashable.com/2009/11/03/hotseat/
Hotseat is a new classroom tool that leverages students' familiarity with social networking to provide a dynamic, interactive educational environment. It combines Facebook, Twitter and SMS to allow students to ask questions and leave comments in real-time in a format the professor and other students can see.
I love the idea. Imagine you're in a class, and the professor begins lecturing on some obscure economic theory. Rather than stop the discussion every time you wish to ask a question, you just send it to Hotseat and the professor can answer it when he/she wants - or just let another student answer it in the stream. I only see it being useful with people who are familiar with the Twitter-stream, but those people are often devout and willing to bring anyone in who wants to learn.
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