Make Your Ain Chat Room

Chatmaker helps you lot to do only that! I'm amazed at only how slowly things similar this bring locomote past times away these days as well as it's free! I used this website to create this chat room:
http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/NikPeachey/
It took in all likelihood less than 2 minutes!


Here's a quick tutorial showing how it was done.
Chatmaker tutorial (Flash 202k)

This is the sort of affair that you lot used to demand your ain server as well as a lot of noesis to create, Now anyone tin do it.

How to role this amongst your students
Creating a chat room specially for distance students tin live on actually useful, but don't only await them to role it. You'll demand to gear upward them some goals as well as tasks.

If you lot tin acquire your students using it, as well as hence you'll also demand to create upward one's heed what degree of English linguistic communication you lot desire them to aim for. Do you lot desire them using text speak? e.g. "W8 four ME, I’M L8, SOZ "OR Would you lot prefer them to limited that inward 'plain English'; "Wait for me I'm tardily . Sorry". Both bring some value, but arrive clear to students which you're after.

If you lot desire to railroad train their 'text speak' as well as hence at that spot are some goodness materials here on ane of the British Council's sites for teachers.

Some possible tasks you lot could gear upward could include:

• Interview business office plays (make ane educatee a reporter as well as they bring to interview some other educatee past times chat.
• Mystery guest. Tell your students that they volition interview a famous someone as well as they bring to enquire questions to justice who it is (You could reply the Qs yourself OR acquire a educatee to pretend to live on thee mystery celebrity)
• Interview an expert. Get students to interview an practiced on a specific topic. they should inquiry the theme showtime to brand some interesting questions, as well as hence interview each other to see who is the existent expert
• Chat room Quiz. Get the students to write full general noesis questions to quiz each other.
• Trivia Quiz. You tin live on the quiz master, enquire questions as well as laurels points to the educatee who gets the reply first.

This sort of text chat interaction tin live on actually useful if you lot desire to operate on both accuracy as well as fluency because it pushes students to arrive at linguistic communication inward 'real time' , but you lot also bring a written tape which you lot tin re-create as well as past times into a give-and-take document as well as acquire students to analyse as well as correct.

It's worth beingness aware that inward chat rooms sentences don't necessarily come upward on shroud inward the gild they would inward a aspect upward to aspect upward conversation. You may acquire ii questions appearing as well as and hence ii answers. learning to create out amongst this tin live on a challenging but useful skill. You tin also role this every bit a follow upward exercise as well as acquire the students to seat the sentences inward the gild that they should bring appeared.

What I liked most it

• Extremely slowly to role as well as create
• Very uncomplicated interface
• Very fast to acquire working

What I wasn't hence certain about

• There is no logging inward required, hence you lot can't actually tell who it is you're speaking amongst as well as hence there's no accountability for what people say.
• If you lot role this amongst your students I would propose creating a novel room each fourth dimension as well as every bit unopen to your run into upward fourth dimension every bit possible, that agency it's unlikely you lot volition acquire whatever unwanted visitors

Happy chatting as well as if you lot do drib past times the chat room I created nosotros mightiness only bring a quick chat.
http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/NikPeachey/

Best

Nik