Classroom Lecturing Assistant: The Google Jockey

Gute Idee: A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class session who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, or Web sites mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic at hand. A screen displays the jockey’s searches for all participants to see.”

Scenario

Dr. Chen has been using Google jockeying all semester in his Western History class. He has been livening things up by getting a student to “Google” real-time during his lectures, searching the Web for resources relevant to the day’s topic.

The Google jockey’s actions and results are displayed to the rest of the students on a projection screen.

An IM application lets students send requests to the Google jockey for particular searches or direct the jockey to reference sites. Dr. Chen has rotated the task of jockeying, and each student has had an opportunity to do it once.