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Chat Strategies
From Dave Eggebrecht
Marc and Discuss Participants,
The best chat is certainly live participation with a small group of
students using a projection system so all can see. That situation does
not often happen. An alternative:
In advance of the chat share the biographical information with your
class or classes.
Talk with the students about good questions vs bad (open ended vs closed)
Brainstorm with each class and select around 10 questions from each.
Write each question on an index card along with the name of the student
and the class. Staple duplicate question cards together.
When the chat time comes, conduct the chat on behalf of all your students.
They don't have to be there!
Submit questions during the chat which are appropriate to the current
topic. Follow the format: "Gina wants to know ......."
After the chat is done, save the chat as a text file. Open it in a
word processor application and edit! Arrange the questions and answers
in a logical order. Remove inappropriate material.
Print the edited chat in a large size font, spacing between questions
and answers.
Cut the document into strips, one question/answer pair per strip.
Role play the entire chat in each class. This process is well worth
the effort.Most of the work takes place before and after the chat session.
I still prize the chat session we had with Rob Manning after the successful
Pathfinder landing.It was fantastic!
Dave Eggebrecht
Kenosha Unified School District
Kenosha, WI
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