Chat Best Practices for Teachers. Uses of Chat in the Classroom. Using online chat in teaching best practices. It's been a busy few weeks but amongst the things that I've been doing was a presentation on some research I did to finish off my MEd last year at our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference which I thought might be interesting to share (interesting in a vaguely nerdish kinda way!).
What was my research about? Well, the focus of my project was to attempt to understand what happened to educationally rich dialogue within online chat when students were left on their own, or when there was a tutor present. Anyway, it was an interesting little project and the results were also pretty revealing (and I'd really like to look into this area further), and it led me to wonder whether or not there is any kind of pedagogy for using chat in teaching?
Surely we need one if we're to know how to use chat productively. Having looked into things a bit... So, how to use chat in teaching? There really are no hard and fast rules, but here are a few basic guidelines: Chat. Here's an online chat intro Kathy P uses. Copy/paste.