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You can also sign in with your twitter account

You can add your chat room to any webpage or your blog. The only downside is that you cannot configure the look and feel,

Meebo Chat

You can create a chat room and embed it in your blog or website. Send the URL of the chat room to your friends and they can join even if they are non-Meebo users.

Yaplet

You can create a chat room for any webpage and start chatting around it without leaving the site

You can set Moderator options in your chat room (requires registration) and ban a particular user.

The chat logs are saved forever and you can see what others have talked about when you were offline.

Unlike other widget enabled chat rooms this does not hinder your blog loading time as the chat widget loads only when a user clicks it.

Gabbly

Just grab a URL and append gabbly.com/ in front of a webpage�s URL, you will be able to chat with anyone visiting the page at the same time!

You can completely customize and embed your chat room in a webpage.

In many ways, amplified individuals, organizations and their practices are enabling pedagogies born in the early 20th century that have not been able to find expression in the current educational system.

Many educators venturing into the amplified world find that modes of learning using social and collaborative platforms are downright inspiring - encouraging the reasons that they chose to teach.

However, education decision-makers must work to close not just the digital divide - access and familiarity with digital technologies - but also the participation gap - comfort engaging in a culture of contribution, connectivity, sharing, and massive collaboration.

Open collaborative platforms enable distributed teams and loosely connected networks to self organize and form ad hoc structures to solve problems and implement strategies.  By circulating resources openly and broadly through social networks, information tends to find the right people at the right place at the right time that allows ad hoc leaders to emerge and apply relevant expertise more quickly.  Such an open, flexible structure facilitates collective sensemaking - a practice by which knowledge and expertise that may not have been visible can rise in response to critical issues. Tools ranging from Plazes (a system that lets your social contacts know where you are, what you’re doing and when) to Moodle (an open source courseware management system) allow knowledge workers, educators, learners to form their own smart mobs and self-led teams.  The transparency of these systems also helps support a culture of beta building - rapid innovation, in which participants of a social network, distributed team, or smart mob can see information, offer critique, and help iterate solutions and strategies.  Amplified organizations will be transliterate - capable of communicating across multiple media in ways that use specific media platforms and non mediated, face-to-face interactions to develop effective and creative messages.

Some groups archive their weekly chats on a wiki, in their Linkedin group, on a website or on wtHashtag.

Twitter Chat Tools

Tweetchat

Once your login has been authenticated with Twitter, enter the hashtag. This will take you to the tweetchat room with your custom Twitter background where you’ll be able to follow the conversation.

A newer web-based interface that integrates a variety of media including photos and videos.

List of Twitter Chats