Backchanneling

After class Tuesday I got to thinking about how I could use edmodo or Todaysmeet in my engineering class for them to communicate across the room while working on separate parts of their project. I talked with them today about it and they thought it would be very helpful for them to see what each other is doing without having to stop and talk about it. They know they need to do face to face communication at times but not all the time. They are always yelling across the room for so and so to check out this website or source that they found. If nothing else it should quite things down a little;) I'm looking forward to trying it out.