Tag: chat

IRC for teachers #tlah

Since the website at talk.eduk8.me just isn’t up to everyone’s standards on using IRC for group chats I’ve put together a brief tutorial on installing a Chrome app that works a lot better than the website. It is also prettier. πŸ™‚ (I also stumbled acrossed Tiny Tiny IRC tonight, but the install is a little more involved, so this will… Read more →

Group chats made easier with IRC

It’s funny the cycles that tech goes through. When the Internet was in its infancy, everything was as open as it could be. The protocols were all based on open standards, and your machine could talk to any other machine. Then came the online services of the 80s. Compuserv, AOL, Delphi, Prodigy. Each service trying to keep you in their… Read more →