[Technical] Using IRC for student development collaboration

[Donna Benjamin]

Con Zymaris wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:45:50AM +1000, Clark, Ian C wrote:
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>>>Here's my concept. 
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>>>Install a drop-in IRC server on a single PC, which is 
>>>switched on and off when lessons start and finish. Only you 
>>>and your students have access to it - everyone signs in with 
>>>their real names and you log all activity to reduce 
>>>uncorroborated shenanigans.
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>>Hi Con, 
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>>Yes, they're the sort of limitations on the technology that schools can
>>use. 
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>>I wouldn't have thought that IRC happening only in a room between kids
>>who can already talk to each other is the best use of the application,
>>but some people might have some really good specific uses.
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>Sharing code via IRC is easy. Sharing code face-to-face is hard.
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>Sharing ideas with 20 kids on IRC is easy. Sharing ideas with 20 kids in a 
>lab is hard. Logging and documenting all the good ideas is exciting and 
>helps the kids understand that they are building something more than a 
>transient app.
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>Try it and you'll see what I mean. ;-)
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Hang on - but isn't sharing, cheating?  ;-)

- D.