Instant messaging workshop
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[edit] Overview
In this hands-on workshop you'll learn about one of the preferred methods of communication among our youth--Instant Messaging, or IM. You'll have a chance to learn about the various IM services and create accounts on as many of them as you like. We will discuss how you might use IM to support learning and build rapport among students.
[edit] What will I learn?
- What is IM?
- How does it work?
- Why is it important?
- IM services and protocols (AIM, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo!, MSN)
- IM clients (those provided by services vs. multi-protocol clients such as gaim)
- What do (some) of those acronyms mean? ;)
- How to IM your friends, family, colleagues, and students!
[edit] How does IM support good teaching?
Instant messaging can:
- encourage student-faculty contact
- encourage cooperation among students
[edit] Supporting Documents
- 7 things you should know about Instant Messaging, from Educause Learning Initiative (copied with permission)
- A summary of IM services
- Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation
- IM Market Share: the numbers appear to be US only.
