My Curriculum Resource Center Librarian recently asked me to figure out how she could have a “live chat” on her site. She wanted the reference librarian to be able to answer students’ questions as they were online looking for resources from our college library’s website. She even showed me the State Library of Florida's "Ask a Librarian" where they offer a live chat service. Unfortunately, we don’t have much money or the in-house manpower to develop a live chat program for ourselves.
Then I came across Stickam. Stickam is a social networking, web-based communication tool, completely free, that offers live streaming video, slide shows, music, and live video chats on your blog or web-site. There is no software to download, you just copy and paste the URL code to your site for others to view.
Stickam has many other features, you can even build your own webpage on Stickam and put the video chat on it if you don’t already have an existing page.
Think about using this tool with your students for a conference about their course work. It doesn't matter how far you are from your students, whether across town or on a neighboring island, using Stickam you can answer their questions through a live video conference as though you were in the same room.
This is one possible solution for a conversation via a Web 2.0 web-based application.
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