Educational Gaming Commons

See http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/05/08/weblins-another-transitional-step-to-3... for this fascinating new technology. Basically, you have an avatar that travels with you as you browse. It appears on the bottom of the page. The exciting thing is if other people are using Weblin, and they are on the same page, you can converse with them!

Fleep describes how this can be used in Course Management Systems. I had another idea - what a great way to jazz up an asynchronous discussion forum by setting a date/time for all to come to the forum and, well, discuss the topic? You could capture the conversation as posts in the forum AS THEY OCCURRED, turning it into a synchronous, chat-like event. We all know that forced chats don't work well. Will Weblins make a difference?