Have ideas, questions, or suggestions? Add them to the CrowdAbout Contributions page.

Example Uses

• instead of asking students to post an intro to a discussion forum, create your intro message and have students introduce themselves and reply to you and the other students
• discuss your syllabus and course and have your students reply that they understand course requirements or ask questions about syllabus/course items that they don't understand
• podcast your lectures and have students ask you questions
• host a debate about a specific topic so that students get the opportunity to reconcile multiple perspectives

Benefits

• commenting feature encourages interaction with content and with other members of the learning community
• audio and video components address multiple learning styles and engage students
• once you set up your show, no extra work is required if you are already podcasting
• RSS feature reduce your  workload by  allowing you to read, listen to or watch the activity on your show from you RSS reader and by allowing you to add
• ability to embed the show on your course web site means you keep all your course actions in one place (saves time!)

Tutorials

• CrowdAbout Tour - brief overview and list of quick steps to take to get started.

Creating a CrowdAbout Show