I have wanted to test drive COVERITLIVE for some time now. I think I am just getting my head around it. I have read and chatted about the tool being used to engaging learners in an online chat room on ‘roids’ kind of thing but I see its use as a platform to cover school events, speeches, sports, assemblies and the like.
Setting up a CoverItLive account is free although I not sure I fully understand the ‘freemium model despite a few emails to and fro, but once you’ve done so you can either jump straight into liveblogging or schedule upcoming events. All LIVE content is all hosted @ CoverItLive, and you simply embed a frame onto your webiste / blog / VLE by pasting in a small snippet of HTML code.
Features you get as publisher as IM, the ability to receive comments from readers and post the ones you choose to the stream, so lets hope that manageable. Live polls, nice. Post either prepared images, ideos or fresh from the event snaps all rounded up with publishers statistics and viewership. So, is it a platform to getting into multiply classrooms? Interesting thought. So, I will get it a go tomorrow and hope Mrs Tucke (aka Mr Stucke joins in the testing). This could be a future Digital Leader platform.