Subscribe to PostsUsing the chat facility on Gmail - Wednesday 12/8/09.
Setting up to chat on Gmail, took some organising. Firstly, I had to resurrect my Gmail account and remember my user name and password. That done, I downloaded the software required by Gmail in order to enable chatting to take place. This was important, as without it Gmail is only an email facility like many others. After that was completed contacts had to be added to the list. I actually invited a few people and then realised that Ken invited everyone into the group chat for us. Quite a few people turned up to chat. I know a couple of people had technical difficulties getting onto the chat side of Gmail.
Once invited into the group chat we were up and running and the chat was quite thick and fast. I chatted with a couple of people and then Ken called me for a video chat. Even though I have used some of these technologies before, I am not all that comfortable with video chat. It certainly gives a more personal feel to distance education - putting faces to names etc. Ken and I chatted for about half an hour about various topics such as, location, work setting, general ITC510 stuff etc. Then we both hung up from our video chat and joined the group chat for a while.
The group chat continued for another 15 minutes or so and the log of the chat is included here. Read the rest of this entry »
