My favourite chatting environment so far would have to be skype. I love being able to see and hear my peers taht are all ove rthe globe! However we are connected at the same time, talking to each other with minimal delays in speech. Skype not only allows for voice and video chat, it is a great easy to use tool! The buttons are large enough and a heuristic evaluation by myself and my friend (both first time users) have proven it is easy to use and navigate while also not lacking in visual appearance. It was great this semester slowly getting to know each other each week.
My least favourite chatting medium was Google talk. Now, look, it WAS only a beta, but google should know better before reaeasing that stuff! It was terribad. The video only worked one on one, it was hard to use, you had to have a gmail email account to use it, the text functionality was hard to navigate, and DO NOT get me started on trying to add users to a conference! BAH! the colour scheme was terrible, and plain, and i couldn't navigate my way around at all.
Facebook i like, as i used it everyday anyway. It is easy to use and great to catch up with people that are all over the globe, or even for finding people you havn't seen in years. Facebook chat however is an abomination, and i think people should stick with msn chat or even skype without the video and audio. Face book chat is terrible, but for learning more detailed descriptions and seeing pictures of my peers it is a great tool.
The interact Chat tool is very very easy to use, and read. Each person was able to log straight in and post comments, however we did run into a wee bit of cunfusion after all the colours (one per person in chat) were exhausted. It got slightly confusing when two dark blue people were typing.
The first thing we did in our pod groups was enter a chat changing website. This was a great learning experience especially for the poor lady in my group who didn knot you could edit text!
All in all, the weekly tasks have been fun, informative, and a good learning experience.
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