Team Chat in Education
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LLED 481 Presentation - July 18, 2017
What's Mattermost?
Mattermost is an open source communication tool that facilitates collaboration in a chat-type environment.
Not "just chat"
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Asynchronous and synchronous
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Persistent history
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Threaded replies
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Mobile apps
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Custom notifications
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Extensible
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emoji picker 😎
+ Open Source
+ Hosted at UBC
*visual aid only
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Direct Messages
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Online Status
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Private Channels
- Topic-Specific Channels
- Public and Private
- Anyone can create
- Multiple teams are supported
- Search
- @ mentions
- File/image upload
- Typing status
- Timestamps
- Threads
Formatting Options
Faculty of Education Mattermost Pilot
23 Teams
289 Users
116 Channels
12389 Posts
As of July 10, 2017
MEd in Early Childhood Education
100% online
Three cohort-wide shells
Six credit courses
Online cohort shells
- Building community
- Status updates
- Clarifying questions
- Encouragement
Online course shells
- Mattermost "as an option" didn't usually spark
- Students use other platforms and those have inertia
How do you communicate with classmates?
Typical pilot course
Why is this typical?
What was your impression?
Atypical pilot course
What happened?
Literature Circle Group
- Theory: Students used to use BB IM and switched over
- Theory: Different time zones - was late night use a factor?
- Theory: Text is a more accessible form of communication
Students met 3-4 times to discuss a book of importance in the field and prepare a presentation
MET Social Laboratory
Current MET student created a forum for students and alumni to socialize and share ideas.
MET Social Laboratory
Who are we?
What are our shared concerns?
Can we together create a stronger network of teachers and education technology specialists?
Do we have information and experiences that others in our community might find valuable or interesting?
Do we have ideas of things we might create together or ways that we can improve our shared experience in MET?
This sparked!
LLED Research
#eureka
Can team chat be used to facilitate research?
How can we research the potential for teaching language?
Over to you
How could chat be used to support English Language Arts Education?
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