GTalk Needs One More Feature

Last night I was teaching my graduate school class in educational technology and needed to have all of my college students in a group chat room. All of my students are required to have a GMail account, so I reckoned I could easily create a chat room within GTalk.

Not so. While it's possible to do a group chat in GTalk, I would have to add each student individually to the chat -- rather than select them from my GMail contact list. Within my class period I didn't have time to add students individually to a group chat, so we had to make do in other ways for the lesson I was teaching.

Ideally I'd love to save all the members of a group GTalk chat to its own group, so that I can easily recreate the group chat experience with a minimum of mouse clicks and efforts.

GTalk is a fairly new Google service. I'm hoping a better group chat experience can be added to an otherwise excellent service.

Phil Shapiro

The blogger is an adjunct professor of education at a university in the Washington DC-area. He can be reached at: philshapiroblogger@gmail.com

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