I have decided that it is time to take the maths lit teachers into the arena of having REALTIME online meetings. Of cause I went off on a tangent wanting to just throw them into the deep end with some high tech web 2 tools like WizIQ and was then horribly brought down to earth by my ever present friends….bandwidth and dialup.

When I tested my room with a dial-up….well lets say that I had to go back to the drawing board.So I have decided to KISS (keep it simple stupid) and then inserted a little  Cbox chat box into my ML NING network. It is very basic but works quite effectively. We will have to see tonight how effectively. The reason why I decided not to use SKYPE or any of the other Chat agents (IM, Google chat…) is that the last time I tried to have an online meeting, we ended up chatting across 3 different platforms with some of us being relay agents. Chaos. So at least nobody will have to install anything and can just jump in. I do think the teachers will probably be a bit confused with such a small chat window and a myriad of conversations that will probably take place. I expect that it will be a first for most of them.

In combination with the chat window, we will do the resources discussions in a forum next to the chat window (rather asynchronously) but it will be a little more organised and the teachers can then upload their resource for discussion as well. So hold thumbs for me! I will report back on how it went…..If you know any maths lit teachers in South Africa, please tell them about the meeting at:http://www.mathsliteracy.ning.com

Time: 19h00- 21h00 (or there about…..) Time goes past so fast if you talk about maths…