Lessons from The Youth Vote

Just listening to a NPR story on the youth vote for Obama. In the interviews the youth talked about how twitter, YouTube, and text messaging made them feel more connected to the campaign. We should be thinking about how to leverage this in education.

Multiple Communication Streams Cont.

Yesterday our face-to-face professional development team had a marketing meeting. Three of the participants met at a coffee house together in Wisconsin, and I joined the meeting virtually. They had to move to a second coffee house because the wireless wasn't working. Everyone had their own computer. It was interesting to see how we used a combination of Skype voice, Skype chat, email, text messaging and a Google Doc to communicate and collaborate. After the meeting we have our Google Doc to refer to, but also one of the members emailed us a transcript of our Skype chat. The meeting was very productive and I would argue in some ways more efficient for brainstorming than a meeting without these tools. However, even with new technologies there is still a lot of room (and possibly increases) for miscommunication as well.