Serious chat in a university setting

[Sharyn J. Ladner]

We use iChat here at FSU for group discussions in our distance education
masters program. I am a TA for a course, "Design and Production of Network
Multimedia," that is currently using iChat to conduct HTML tutorials among
small groups and for project teams whose members are located throughout
the state of Florida (Tallahassee, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami,
Jacksonville) to discuss the design and production of their web sites. I
have found that chat becomes unwieldy if more than 10 persons are in the
group and all try to participate. iChat is also being used in some of our
other distance ed courses at FSU's School of Information Studies but I am
not involved with those.

Hope this helps,
Sharyn

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Sharyn J. Ladner                                         sladner at miami.edu 
University of Miami Richter Library            sjl4008 at garnet.acns.fsu.edu
   (on sabbatical 8/1/97 - 7/31/98 at FSU School of Information Studies)
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