This is hopeless; I say when we go back to our seats we can still assimilate the real-time room (meeting) environment in an asynchronous fashion. Well, look at that, we can do asynchronously, what we usually do when we are in the same room. Just like Jon Mell describes less use of email by incorporating IM into email (placing it in the same spot where you create a new email)…what I would like to see at the end of The other day when I posted on social networks and ad-hoc groups , I mentioned these online tools need to mirror both our offline behaviour, and our online real-time behaviour.

Community Heartbeats - when synchronous interactions matter  That’s where synchronous events can help. What are synchronous events? Synchronous Synchronous online events are when some or all of the learners are online at the same time and interacting using tools such as Voice over IP (VoIP), telephone bridge lines, chat rooms, web meetings and instant This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I