From: cxtdm@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Tim McCollum)
Subject: Re: Chats
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:31:32 -0600 (CST)
Rhonda,
My students have been very active participants in the PTK moderated
chat sessions and they have always made reference to these events in their
end of year review.
As for suggestions: I announce each scheduled chat and featured
guest and have the students review his/her posted biosketch on the PTK web
site. I then accept questions in advance for screening ( I have yet to
exclude an interested student but this seems to improve the quality of the
questions...sometimes suggesting some rephrasing ) This year the chats
have been during our lunch so the participants "brown bag" it outside the
computer lab or in my classroom. I have a sheet of chat "netiquette" which
they read before going online and follow during the session. Since they
are sometimes off to their next class before their questions are answered,
I always download and print hard copies of the archived session for each
participant ( also serve as nice souvenirs to show their parents ). Sandy
usually has these posted within a few days of the session. ( Thanks
Sandy....we know these take lots of work! )
Happy to help,
Tim :)
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Tim McCollum 217-345-2193 (school)
Charleston Middle School 217-345-8121 (fax)
920 Smith Dr. cxtdm@eiu.edu
Charleston, IL 61920
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