In-Room Chat as a Social Tool
Clay Shirky,
Open P2P,
Dec 30, 2002
"My hovercraft is full of eels." Well, OK, some of the chat messages were a bit, um, out there. But this experiment in the use of an online chat as a means of facilitating communication in a classroom is otherwise a success. And it provides an answer to the inevitable question in the world of Wi-Fi: "Given that attendees will be using the network, would you rather have them talking to one another, or reading Slashdot?" This is a great article, well worth reading (and emulating).
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