About This Page

This page was used in the "Enough Talking - Let's Use The Next Generation Technologies!" workshop session at ALT-C 2006.

It was used by discussion group 3 to keep a record of their discussions. In the first exercise the groups identified what they wanted to get out of the session. In this exercise they used the 'six thinking hats' approach to address the issues from six perspectives.

Exercise 2: Six Thinking Hats

Aim: How to use chat as a collaboration tool

White hat:

• No deep learning?
• Best as a social tool?
• 6 max group size.
• Students do it for themselves
• Students feel they can use it collaboratively
• Chat in Google, MSM, Yahoo, etc - how to coodinate.
• Foreign language studetns tend to go into a separate one
• Blackboard one no good
• Trillion integrate all these
• Distinction between it literate students and others
• netgen coming along!
• VLE tools too clunky - student expectaions and previous experience

Red hat:

• won't feel right
• support for students who are self conscious, wary
• peer support for this?
• on-campus strategy for induction and support

Black hat:

• Poor tools compared with what students experience
• will only use institutional system if credited
• staff won't touch it with a barge pole
• student and staff ambivlence to text exposure
• IT systems will not support
• Bandwidth issues
• Some unis block MSN

Yellow hat:

• Personalise contact relations with students
• informal
• equality of presence
• ownership of tools
• democratisation of communication?

Green hat:

• Wiki
• Writley
• Fora
• Texting
• Skype

Blue hat:

• Institutional context/obstacles

Exercise 1: xxx

Keep your notes here.

Exercise 2: xxx

Keep your notes here.