what an administration that 'allowed' that to happen would be like!

mine wouldn't have a clue what is meant by the term backchannel!

Nedral well mine wouldn't either, but if they knew they wouldn't like it - even if it was productive

it would make staff meetings much more intersting!

absolutely

gee, just like passing notes in class!

i setup a chatzy for my 2 day admin meeting and have members of my admin team invited to it.

That was we could make out "clever" comments without making any noise, turning around, or passing notes.

I don't think my boss would like it...

it would be OK if projected on a big screen - then the comments wouldn't get too silly or trivial (uh, maybe)

I wonder if people would start a back, back channel?