Dr. Albert L. Ingram of Kent State University uses The Palace in many of his classes to provide a synchronous learning environment. Although The Palace software is several years old now (making it ancient by Internet standards) and even though the company that owned it is out of business, there is a thriving community of people who both run Palaces and communicate using the program. In many ways, it still offers one of the best ways to communicate online, with an almost unique combination of low bandwidth and customizable graphical environment. Even though we at KSU are also beginning to use the 3D Active Worlds chat environment as well, we expect to continue using The Palace for a while to come.

This site is the best place for students in Ingram's classes to get information on The Palace: how to get and install it, as well as how to use it. Click on the buttons at the left to get more information about specific Palace topics.