Synchronous chat sessions can be very useful in or out of class activities for stimulating discussion, invention, or analysis.

This page will provide an overview of why you would might want to use synchronous chat and what resources are available.

Why Synchronous Chat
The utility of chat for out-of-class communication is clear; however, it may seem odd to be engaged in online conversation in a classroom setting.

It's also a major mission of our web development: maintaining and updating past resources by retrofitting our MOO and iChat pages to new technology. This new node will include a sort of overview for teachers (like these profiles and links to our missing iChat assignments and an
Resources
The CWRL provides a few options of hosting and transcribing chat sessions.

• Our MOO, MappeMundi, is still available, but has become unstable. We do not recommend relying on it too heavily.
• Psi, an open source chat program, is now available. See our documentation for it.

Chatzy a quick and easy html chat program you can do without an extra program and creating accounts. (Good for a quick in-class session.)