Drumbeat/Feedbacker

Feedbacker: Real-time crowd feedback for lecturers and others

• Get an idea of how Feedbacker works via this mockup: http://bit.ly/feedbackermockup
• Check out our prototype here: http://bit.ly/feedbackerprototype
• A Mozilla Drumbeat project born at the "Learning, Freedom and the Web" Festival
• Currently in the strategy / scope / story / design phase. Dive in and get involved: http://groups.google.com/group/feedbacker

Project tools

• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/feedbacker or contact @siglesias (project lead) for group invite (or just to chat)!
• Twitter hash tag: #Drumbeat #Feedbacker
• Chat room (IRC): coming soon
• Issue tracker: coming soon

Help this project now

We've set up a Google group here: http://groups.google.com/group/feedbacker . Please join and let's get the discussion started!

The project in 5 sentences

• Feedbacker lets you use mobile web browsers to get feedback from groups in real time.

• By making it possible to reveal attention and learning states on an open-source platform using mobile devices, Feedbacker facilitates group interaction while gathering data.

• You might use this tool in a classroom to gauge student comprehension, in a conference call to keep your co-workers on task, or to research how individuals behave in groups.

• Existing feedback technologies (like RF clickers) are hardware-based and utilize inflexible proprietary software, whereas the Feedbacker gives anybody with a web browser customizable real-time feedback--for free.

• You may be thinking, what about good old fashioned human interaction? Well, not everyone likes to admit it when they are confused or bored. You may be someone who prefers to sit quietly in the back. This tool is for you.

Feedbacker:  Mic'ing the back. So the feedback is more than noise.

One-page overview

http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/9MI0ALsQWo

Project infographic

Here is the functionality/layout mockup we have prepared: http://bit.ly/feedbackermockup

Some ideas post-11/29 call:

1. on the wiki re: feedbacker, add in #spark

2. change the bit.ly url to bit.ly/feedbacker (this was taken, but the prototype is now http://bit.ly/feedbackerprototype)

3. update the CAB pdf of specs to show the new name, Feedbacker (done!)

4. Is there a way to add a comment/question popup window--so students have another option as well as Up/Down/Neutral. Perhaps clicking on Question (Ask?) would make a popup window where the student could input a question. And other students could click on whatever the icon is and look at that question. Prof could also click on Respond to answer. So there could be multiple icons: Question/Comment/Respond. (we can definitely continue the discussion on the Google group listed at the top of the page! --Sam)

Potential project names

• Coming soon

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

• Coming soon

Comparable Solutions

• Coming soon

Functional Specification

• Coming soon