Note: This chat room is available for connections among Holmes Institute Students 24 hours a day. To arrange a chat time together, students can e-mail each other or post discussion times to the Holmes Institute listserv or the specific class listserv.
You can use this room for:
Technical Notes: To use this web chat room, you MUST have a web browser the equivalent of Netscape 4.0 or above or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or above. If you have a browser over four years old, please upgrade it. Firefox, available at http://www.firefox.com is the newest, most updated browser as of January, 2005.
How to Chat:
1. Click on the chat button below.
2. WAIT!! It takes a few minutes for the chat room to load. You will know it's loaded when you see rectangular fields in which to type your name and profile.
3. Type your first name. You don't need a profile.
4. Click on the CHAT! button at the end of the name field to join the chat.
5. You will then see a chat window on your screen. The names of the people who have joined the chat will be at the right-hand side of the window.
6. Click on the white field under the window to type your input. Press the return key when you have finished typing.
7. What you have typed will show in the chat window above, along with what everybody else has typed.
8. A name will appear in the chat window in front of each person's input, but your own name will not show on your own computer because your computer knows it's you.
9. Don't worry about your typing ability. Typos are expected and are OK.
11. Enjoy your chat!!
If you choose, you can have a written record of your chat to e-mail to all of the participants in the chat room. Here is how to do it about ever 45 minutes during your chat:
1. Open a blank document in a word processing program along with keeping your chat window open.
2. Using the same keys you use for word processing, highlight all of the words in your chat window by using most likely CTRL A, going to the edit menu and choosing select all, or highlighting everything in the window by clicking you mouse, holding it down, and running it over all of the words in your chat window.
3. Once all of your words are highlighted, copy the highlighted material by using most likely CTRL C or going to your edit menu and choosing copy.
4. Click in your word processing program, and paste what you have copied, usually with CTRL V and going to your edit menu and choosing paste.
5. To delete everything you have copied from the chat window so that it does not delete automatically after about an hour, exit the chat window by clicking on the top left-hand box, on the window, then immediately go back into the chat room by clicking on the chat room button. You most likely won't even have to re-type your name.
6. That is all there is to it!! It can seem difficult the first time, but is really easy every time after that.
Created by Rev. Dr. Christina Tillotson, Distance Dean, Holmes Institute
Updated April, 2005