OER4Schools/Group chat with messenger or collaborative writing

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Title	Group chat with messenger or collaborative writing
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Related ORBIT Wiki Resources	Collaborative writing, OER4Schools/Typing practice with students
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Just doing typing practice without an aim can be a bit boring.

Once your students have some basic typing skills, you can use a tool like Pidgeon for group chat, which is a fun way of sending messages, that encourages typing skills. You can also use a collaborative writing tool (such as EtherPad, Google documents, or collaborative editors running on your local network).

You can set a topic to start things off, which can be simple:

• "Say hello to your friends."
• "Say what you had for breakfast."

and let people start typing!

Depending on the typing skills of your students, you could use ideas from cumulative talk^(a) in this activity (c.f. also here).