This procedure can draw more students into the discussions. Entire classrooms may input their responses in rapid fire order this way. Expect a wait. While waiting, you can prepare your next comment. Courtesy and practice are especially important here.
Students represent their class, school, city, and state as well as self.
Flirting, age, or gender inquiries, and private unwanted messages are not allowed. Ideas are more important than spelling in this context. There will be many typos made and forgotten in each conference. We will create a log of each conference which will be archived, for further reference,on the project web site. If you are unable to attend our IRC chats, you can share these chat logs with your class.