Dear Colleagues: I am setting up an Illinois standards-based sports safety/science TV show and website for K-12 students. I would like to include chat and instant messaging as a component. The concept I have in mind is to use a website as an "after the show" vehicle for kids, teachers, parents, etc., to converse with afterwards. Does anyone on this list have info as to good tools that are available for low/no cost? Thanks, Matthew Newman Executive Editor Sports Smarts msjanew@aol.com
jabber is probably the least corporate and most egalitarian solution. or, alternately, IRC with a java applet. but i'd stay away from IRC in general - pretty unfriendly. elijah
Dear Colleagues:
I am setting up an Illinois standards-based sports safety/science TV show and website for K-12 students. I would like to include chat and instant messaging as a component. The concept I have in mind is to use a website as an "after the show" vehicle for kids, teachers, parents, etc., to converse with afterwards. Does anyone on this list have info as to good tools that are available for low/no cost?
Thanks,
Matthew Newman Executive Editor Sports Smarts msjanew@aol.com
Folks, I use Trillion, which allows IM/chatting to all four of the main clients: MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo and AOL. Regards Kylie J. Veale | Brisbane, Australia GradDipInvEnv, MInetStds Ph.D (provisional candidate) email: kylie@veale.com.au www: http://casa.de.veale.com.au www: http://www.veale.com.au/kylie icq: #27938257 msn: kyliej@hotmail.com -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org] On Behalf Of elijah wright Sent: Friday, 26 December 2003 6:53 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Available Chat/IM Tools? jabber is probably the least corporate and most egalitarian solution. or, alternately, IRC with a java applet. but i'd stay away from IRC in general - pretty unfriendly. elijah
Dear Colleagues:
I am setting up an Illinois standards-based sports safety/science TV show and website for K-12 students. I would like to include chat and instant messaging as a component. The concept I have in mind is to use a website as an "after the show" vehicle for kids, teachers, parents, etc., to converse with afterwards. Does anyone on this list have info as to good tools that are available for low/no cost?
Thanks,
Matthew Newman Executive Editor Sports Smarts msjanew@aol.com
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I use Trillion, which allows IM/chatting to all four of the main clients: MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo and AOL.
unfortunately, trillian is intended for end-users, not site owners wishing to provide a workable chat service to visitors. the jabber suite of protocols is open-source and the server stuff is free - keeping site administrators from becoming beholden to any one of the commercial IM providers. [having a site that demands you install yahoo chat or AIM or MSN looks, in short, 'cheap' (in the sense of poorly operated, chintzy, clicheed, etc).] digging around on the jabber site a bit should turn up some PHP and other web-friendly clients that you should be able to drop into your CMS or other site software without a tremendous amount of trouble. elijah
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