| The Palace is a two-dimensional graphical chat room used
for a few classes at Kent State. The College of Education runs a Palace
server, and the client programs for Mac or Windows are free. It requires
relatively little bandwidth. It is relatively easy to customize it. It can
be useful for small group collaboration for several reasons:
- It is easy to link back and forth between The Palace and specific Web
pages, making it possible to give instructions to groups over the Web.
- Groups can move to different rooms within a Palace where their
conversations will not interfere with one another.
- Communications are relatively fast.
- The graphical nature of the rooms can give a feeling of presence that
is often lacking in pure textual chats.
- The logs of the conversations can be recorded for assessment, review,
or posting.
For more information, contact
Albert Ingram
or try these websites:
http://www.albertingram.com/palaceinfo/
http://www.thepalace.com/
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