A quickly created chatroom …
Free Technology for Teachers, one of my feeds, alerted me to stinto : …stinto offers you a comfortable, yet also easy to use chat, which you can create with one click and which will be deleted after a longer period of inactivity … Create your own free stinto-Chat with only one click – no registration required!
So … no user name, no sign up, no log on. It appears simple and quick to use and all that is needed is for one person build the chat and then invites the rest to join in by sharing the unique url. The chat is destroyed when you have done … you keep it as long as you use it … it goes after 6, 12 or 24 hours depends on how you set it up.
Seems to me as if this could be useful … would welcome views on it please.
5 Comments:
Here’s one idea I did using a chatroom (Viglen’s Remote Learning - but I’m sure this tool could work in the same way). You need to be in an ICT suite or have individual or paired access to laptops. Get another member of staff online in another room to pose as a child of the same age as your class. Your class have to ask questions of their new class member and then draw a portrait or write a brief pen profile of the person they think they are chatting to. Watch their faces as the Headteacher, or whoever you have chosen walks in at the end of the session. Lots of lessons learned about online safety!
John Sutton
9:26 pm
Looks like a really interesting tool, but I wonder how long it will stay like that. Server load sounds like it could become a problem as would explosive growth in use. Will it eventually become a pay and/or register site?
Steven Egan
9:23 pm
This is cool! Would be nice if you could embed your chat elsewhere… rather than just linking.
I’ve used Gabbly (http://gabbly.com/) in the past… which is similar.
Gabbly is nice because you can create a chat room for any web page by simply adding http://gabbly.com/ to the beginning of the URL (e.g. http://gabbly.com/http://www.dougdickinson.co.uk/blog/?p=169 )
Bad thing about Gabbly is the use of ads..
Matt
10:14 pm
really nice site! will use it
lars
11:01 pm
Thank you for this article!
@Steven Egan: Good question, we are developing a new architecture for higher loads. We will try to offer a free basic version of stinto also in the future.
Lutz
Lutz
4:37 pm