Make your own chat room
Chatmaker helps you to do just that! I'm amazed at just how easy things like this have become these days and it's free! I used this website to create this chat room: http://www.chatmaker.net/chatap/rooms/NikPeachey/ It took probably less than 2 minutes! Here's a quick tutorial showing how it was done. Chatmaker tutorial (Flash 202k) This is the kind of thing that you used to need your own server and a lot of knowledge to create, Now anyone can do it. How to use this with your students Creating a chat room especially for distance students can be really useful, but don't just expect them to use it. You'll need to set them some goals and tasks. If you can get your students using it, then you'll also need to decide what level of English you want them to aim for. Do you want them using text speak? e.g. "W8 4 ME, I’M L8, SOZ "OR Would you prefer them to express that in 'plain English'; "Wait for me I'm late . Sorry". Both have some va...