I don't have an invite (lost in the mail?) but it looks like I can access stuff- the header says Google moderator and I can sign in to submit ideas or vote on ideas. Is that right? or am I in the wrong place?
Yes, I see it here but not in Google Reader.
Yes- I see it could function as a LiveQuestionTool. What I see with Harvard's tool is two columns, and a screen full of questions- this encourages users to read more questions and not just those at the top. One column of, perhaps, long questions may discourage users from reading questions farther below the fold- reinforcing the top few. Not sure that's a good idea, and if we could control layout to 2 or even 3 columns of questions. Does that make sense?
I'd like to see it work. I think it could; I'm not sure how the real estate will work out.
This is really a major missing piece for me. When ever we promoted blogs, I was completely behind the importance of reading, writing, and dialog; I just couldn't figure out how faculty could possibly track a student's participation across all class blogs. Too bad it's limited to this one platform and isn't based on something like metadata that might be harvestable across older blogs; kind of makes IntenseDebate a repository.<div style="display:block;margin:6px 0 0"><a class="a2a_dd" href="http://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="http://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_171_16.png" width="171" height="16" border="0" alt="Share/Save/Bookmark">
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