As I Tweeted last week, every time I read The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing EducationI get an idea that I can apply to my classroom instruction. Today, while reading The World Is Open I came across the idea for having a “Google Jockey” in my classroom. The idea is that you have one student in the room who is responsible for looking up terms or phrases that come up during the course of classroom discussion. Like everyone else, I’ve had students Googling terms informally as they came up in the course of the class, but I had not thought of formally assigning one student to be the “head Googler” for the day. All of my students will have netbooks starting next month and the “Google Jockey” is a term that I plan to add to my students’ vernacular. Combining the use of a back channel along with a Google Jockey could become a good avenue for drilling deeper into the content of the day’s lesson.