Serious chat in a university setting

[Isabel Danforth]

As I have mentioned before, the real time environment used for our
Librarians' Online Support Team workshops have many features that are being
discussed here.  Our virtual classrooms have separated 'seating areas' so
there can be small group discussions.  Teachers can control the queuing of
questions, sessions can be logged, links to the web can be shown, and so on.

You can see logs of the workshops at:
	http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/projects.html#kovacsmed

Isabel



At 11:03 AM 11/8/97 -0800, P. Michael McCulley wrote:
>On  8 Nov 97 at 6:40,  Sharyn J. Ladner (Sharyn J. Ladner 
><sladner at umiami.ir.miami.edu>) wrote about Re: 
>Serious chat in a university 
>
>> We use iChat here at FSU for group discussions in our distance education
>> masters program. 
>> Sharyn
>> 
>> ***************************************************************************
>> 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)
>> ***************************************************************************
>
>I think the use of interactive chat in distance learning is certainly 
>a great use of the technology. And Walt's note on using moderator's 
>to help facilitate the discussions is a good point on making sure a 
>group has a good experience online.
>
>I'd like to mention PowWow <http://www.tribal.com> in this context, 
>and note the new production version 3.21 is out now. Their 
>"communities" module is a fairly recent innovation, and yet seems to 
>have developed quite a community :) of sorts --many of them 24/7 
>operations. It includes features to moderate, with some controls. The 
>listing of communities is at <http://www.tribal.com/communities/>.
>
>The "cruise" (touring the Web together) aspect of PowWow continue to 
>be a fascinating teaching/sharing tool, in my view.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Michael McCulley, Webmaster
>Knight-Ridder Information
>mcculley at best.com
>*speaking only for himself*
>
>
>
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Isabel L. Danforth   Reference Librarian, Wethersfield Public Library
danforth at tiac.net     Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
		       http://www.gnacademy.org:8001/~lost/ 
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