Chat Session Reflection

Had first assessable chat session. Found these discussions the most interesting we've had in Virtual Cultures all year, probably because we got to choose our own topics. I think having discussions online makes it a very relaxed form of assessment. It's also good as the discussion involves everyone and you can see just how well your grasping the units content in relation to everybody else. It seemed to me as if we were all on par. Well done teachers.

However, I originally thought that having text based chat would give people enough time to formulate long responses, but I found that as there are so many people involved the chat moved so fast that there wasn't enough time for these. Sometimes you'd be in the middle of writing and by the time you got to the end of what you were saying, the topic had completly changed, thus the chat was dominated by those who could type the fastest, not necessarily those who had the most to say.

My suggestion would be to use a forum based chat as it still gives students the opportunity to interact in an online environment however as it is not real time no one will be disadvantaged. Mabey we could create our own KCB201 Virtual Community and be assessed on our participation in it?