Real-Time Context for Lecture Content via IM and Weblogs
The New York Times reports that students equipped with wireless devices in lecture halls at major U.S. universities are beginning to obtain more than just the sports scores during their professors' presentations. Apparently students in many locations are using wireless connectivity to connect with one another and comment on the lecture matter itself via Instant Messaging and weblogs - short-circuiting hallway chatter to some degree, but also adding a richer context to the instruction as it unfolds. A generation of students raised on multitaksing content channels that include their peers as a central component is taking content to a whole new level. Orally delivered content is as old as human lips and ears, but community publishing is beginning to give the purely oral tradition a run for its money by providing it a context that's creating vContent worth remembering.