There are more ways than one for Learning Providers to keep visitors to their website/blog/wiki/VLE etc., engaged, and one that has always proven to do well is adding a chat.

Many practitioners feel that chat rooms have become obsolete now that IM applications are so widespread but, chat rooms can still pack quite a punch if implemented correctly, and that is what plugChat.in will enable users to do.

Just copy and paste three lines of code and a chat bar is added into the chosen 's...

Bounce could be an excellent tool for...

• sharing comments about the design elements of websites;
• highlighting graphics on a website; or
• sharing comments about articles with learners and/or colleagues.

Bounce not only allows users to make annotated screen captures of websites but also allows them to instantly share those screen captures with others.

To use Bounce...

• type in the url of any website;
• click "Bounce"
  Bounce creates an image of that website on which users can...
  • draw ...

Teenagers, and some older learners, use (and abuse) acronyms when they are chatting and understanding what they are actually saying can be tricky.

Teen Chat Decoder has come up with a service that aims to shed some light onto the subject. It is comparable to an online translation tool that will let you input any acronym and have it expanded into 'Plain English'.

The ones that will benefit the most from something like this, apart from parents (who are understandably baffled by the things ...