Participate Projects Real-time internet conferences adds an exciting dimension to telecollaborating.
Students respond enthusiastically to actually meeting and discussing topics with each other.
Conferences which are preceded by teacher preparation sessions can provide advance training and work out problems for participants. In order to participate in this type of event, some advance class preparation is generally needed to review conference materials and IRC procedures. IRC is real-time communication, using text exchanges via IRC software. IRC is perhaps the easiest way to conference, since client shareware is available on the internet and there are relatively few commands to learn. You type and send messages which are posted to the viewing windows of everyone connected to your channel.