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

It should bewas used by discussion group 3 to keep a record of their discussionsdiscussions. 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 hathat:

• 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
• VLE tools too clunky - student expectaions and previous experience

Red hathat:

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

Black hathat:

• 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 willnotwill not support
• Bandwidth issues
• Some unis block msmMSN

Yellow hathat:

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

Green hatwikihat:
writley

• Wiki
• Writley
• Fora
• Texting
• Skype

foratextingskypeBlue hathat:
institutional

• Institutional context/obstacles

Exercise 1: xxx

Keep your notes here.

Exercise 2: xxx

Keep your notes here.