{"id":204,"date":"2007-12-20T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/12\/20\/berkman-question-tool-now-available-on-s"},"modified":"2007-12-20T19:29:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T23:29:13","slug":"berkman-question-tool-now-available-on-sourceforge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/2007\/12\/20\/berkman-question-tool-now-available-on-sourceforge\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkman Question Tool now available on Sourceforge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society developed, a few years ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/questions\/chooser.php\">Question Tool<\/a> &#8212; an organized backchannel for conferences and classes that allows participants to submit, answer, and vote on questions. It&#8217;s an effective way to keep feedback focused, direct speakers to audience interests, and potentially prevent the mic from being hijacked by that weirdo.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for this tool has been pretty high, and so we are now <a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/questionanswer\/\">releasing the code on Sourceforge<\/a>. Special thanks to Kevin Driscoll for making it happen.<\/p>\n<p>We are aware of several other similar efforts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MIT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/backchan.nl\/\">backchan.nl<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Emerson College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/placeofsocialmedia.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/28\/digital-lyceum\/\">Digital Lyceum<\/a> (NEH grant)<\/li>\n<li>Albany apparently has a similar system for in-house use (no link)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I suspect that the code will start to fork between a system designed to support classroom discussion (possibly integrated with learning management systems) vs. conference \/ event support and capture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/questionanswer\/\">Berkman Question Tool<\/a> (renamed &#8220;QuestionAnswer&#8221; because the name &#8220;Question Tool&#8221; was already taken)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkman Center for Internet &amp; Society developed, a few years ago, the Question Tool &#8212; an organized backchannel for conferences and classes that allows participants to submit, answer, and vote on questions. It&#8217;s an effective way to keep feedback focused, direct speakers to audience interests, and potentially prevent the mic from being hijacked by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy-multimedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vvvv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}