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Free chat tools

If you use Google Talk (Google's instant messaging client) or just chat from inside your GMail account, you can set up a HTML "badge" that you can copy on to any webpage so that visitors can just click a link and start chatting with you. I've used a badge copied on to my Blackboard site to allow students to instant message me. The advantages are that the student doesn't need to sign up for a Google account to use this, and they don't even have to know your gmail account address to chat with you since you can make the badge say whatever you like.

Moodle Chat allows HTML, so if you need to have a robust chat through their LMS, you can learn, copy, and paste some HTML.

Facebook vs Twitter comparison. People say that Facebook is for connecting with the people you went to school with and Twitter is for people you wished you had gone to school with. While Facebook is a multi-purpose social networking platform, allowing users to chat, post photos and notes...

Teachers connect with classrooms around the world

#TT1921 An online communication that takes place independent of location but at the same time (real time). Participants must agree on a time to log into the chat room and messages are received at the moment they are sent

GroupMe is an instant chat room developed by an individual of the group. The individual can seen a request to all individuals whom they would like to be involved in the the group. The individuals has to accept the invitation and then they can communicate within the group.

Tools, Technology and Techniques To Keep Your Online Students Engaged In a face-to-face class, students have numerous opportunities to interact with their instructor and fellow students. Creating similar opportunities for collaboration in a web-based course is one of the biggest challenges of teaching online.

YouTube live streaming can be a way to hold an synchronous class session if your LMS doesn't include that feature. While it takes a bit of effort to set up, once you do it can be a decent way of having live video with a corresponding real-time chat. It can also be made private/unlisted.

List of education focused chats. Follow the foundation at http://www.twitter.com/edutopia

New technology allows readers to share comments and notes about what they're reading online.

These Twitter Hashtags will give you a leg up and help you get acclimated with all educational subjects especially for those of us who are just getting started in "Twitter chat"! - Valarie Lindsey

Recent article on using social media

TT1921 (M Oyeleye) Prof. Garrett, What a great article to read! I was intrigued with this question, which I have tweaked a bit - "How can we as educators make the best use of Twitter or Diigo to help connect our students with amazing, inspiring personalities in the various fields we teach"?. Please, I will be interested in any response or comment on this?

One of many good articles for this week's study. I especially liked the Facebook uses.

Integrating slack, a synchronous or asynchronous chat tool, into the higher ed classroom

I found this plug-in for Moodle that allows real-time sharing of multi-media such as chats, your screen/desktop, whiteboards, presentations, and audio/video. Appears to be an option for incorporating synchronous activities and communication.

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