Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Chatting: Week 2 Reflection
Yesterday, we tried out the chat feature as an entire class using Skype. The task that was set forth to you was to try to engage in a chat with 10 other people. What were the problems you encountered? What was successful, if anything? What features of IM do you like? What is your preferred method of IM? What are the problems with IM? How has IM changed the way we talk in everyday life?
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I think that it worked out fine, if we were in a out of school based environment. The only real issue we really had was the inappropriate things a couple people said. I Liked the way that we could have an entire conversation organized with everyone talking all at once with no confusion. IM is a quicker way to get a message to a friend compared to email or telephone in my opinion, yet it doesn't replace the sincerity of picking up the phone to call your gram.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem lies in the fact that there ARE ten people.
ReplyDeleteAny group with any large number of people is, by nature, unwieldy. In an environment where control isn't easily exerted, it's difficult to stay together...as we all witnessed already.
Squirrels? Really?
In the end, everybody kind of sank into nonsense or stopped saying anything at all. Personally, I prefer AIM, as I'm sure everybody does, but I think Skype's still useful for audio and video chat.
As for everyday speech, we kind of make jokes about IM lingo--"lol!" in real life is usually used as a sardonic device--for me, anyway. God forbid that I ever seriously say "lol" when I'm laughing at something.
IM, essentially, is useful because it's one of the fastest ways of communication--it can carry messages in a jiffy. As those etiquette rules pointed out, I don't believe heavy messages or conversations should be carried out over AIM...that's just lame.
Peace out, baby.
~Peter
The problems that I had with chat is that I couldn't figure out how to start a chat. I don't know how I got into the classroom conversation yesterday, but I did somehow, I just got to remember how I did it. But I like skype, I thought that it was really cool that you could get the whole class into one conversation, that is pretty amazing if you think about it. But IM keeps on evolving. Now we can literary speak to people all over the world through IM. It is cool and scary at the same time because its cool that you can talk to people around the world but its scary because you don't know who the person is. But I think that IM is going to be the murderer of phones in the next 20 years.
ReplyDeleteSome of the problems we encountered yesterday were unwillingness to follow the question posted and the rudeness some people had towards each other and different groups of people. I don't really think anything was successful yesterday because no one was willing to participate the way Mrs. Wilson wanted it to be done. IM has many problems, but the biggest one is that people are not held accountable for what they say online. It is easier to be insulting and rude on the internet because you can't see the effect your words have on others. I don't usually IM because I prefer face to face talking or on the phone. It is too easy to misinterpet what someone says on IM. Because IM is so popular some of the "speak" has transferred over into our everyday conversations with others. That is something I don't like at all. I prefer traditional communication of face to face.
ReplyDeleteWell when we were using Skype I didn't like the fact that we had so many people in the chat because it made things very confusing, too many things were being said all at once. But overall I enjoy using IM and I like the features of it, especially the fact that everything is all simple, and not having to write out words all the way. I don't feel as if IMing has changed how I talked everyday, though my language is different when in an IM conversation,I do not go around public saying lol when I think something is funny or say nm when someone asks me how I'm doing.
ReplyDeleteChatting with 10 other people was very confusing, I had no idea who was saying what or who they were saying it to. Random things came up and every time I entered something in about 7 other people entered text in as well. It was pretty fun though but it would have been better if we were in different rooms so it didn't seem stupid and pointless.
ReplyDeleteThere are different IMs that I use like Yahoo, Skype, Aim, and MSN. MSN would definitely be my favorite form of IM because you hardly get viruses on that and it has more cool things you can use like you can draw in the chat box instead of write.
Problems with IMs is sent viruses, a lot of people just recently got the AIM virus where it would crash peoples internet and even computers.
I think that the chat feature that we used on Skype yesterday was fun, but also very confusing. The chat changed directions quickly and it was very hard to keep up with the topic at hand. The things that were successful was when we were asked a question on the chat it was sent out to each member of the chat and they were able to write their response. I like the photo sharing feature on AIM because you are able to take photos from your computer and share them with someone that you are IMing. The problems with IM is sometimes people use acronyms or incorrect grammar that makes things that people say hard to understand. IM has also changed the way we talk by giving us acronyms and slang that we wouldn't use in daily conversations.
ReplyDeleteThe problem was that we didn't know who was talking and what we were talking about. When you tried to talk to one person there would be 3 other people talking. There wasn't really anything that went well. I like to talk to people online and the skype is better than aim. I like it how you can talk on the computer and do video chats. I would rather talk one on one or with three people than doing 10 people at a time. The problem with Im is that you might mean one thing but someone you are talking to could take it totally different. This changes talk in everyday life because you don't have to see the person one on one and you come up with slang terms to use wile talking to people like ttyl (talk to you later), and eople do say that wile talking to other people in person
ReplyDeleteOK, so I have to be honest, I wanted to reach across the way and smack some of you! lol Seriously, I posted a legit question, and some of you only gave me a 1 word response. The whole point of communication is to expand ideas. The whole point of what we're doing is trying to engage, so when questions are asked in any conversation, how can you expand when the response is only 1 word?
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, when I have the time, I generally use AIM. I find it difficult to chat with more than 2 people at a time - if everyone is a fast typer, then people can respond to one question and move on before I actually get the chance to respond to the last question. I think that was the largest problem with yesterday - there were too many people taking part in the conversation in order for anyone to really be heard. Beyond that, people chose not to follow the basic conversation that was started. We talked about etiquette before we started, and some of you didn't follow that. Honestly, I was beyond frustrated...
I also think that the problem with IM or any form of communication that is devoid of face to face contact is that you run the risk of misinterpreting the message. Body language & tone convey so much of what we're trying to say, and this can really be lost in the translation when there is only text involved.
The main problems were that the chat got off task and and turned into a smiley war. The successful thing was the first five people went with the chat. I like IM because it is instant and I don't have to spell everything correctly. I also like IM because I can talk to many people at the same time. The problems with IM are that people don't understand what emotions that you are showing. I think IM has changed the way we talk by people using the IM jargon in their every day speech, like OMG and LOL.
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