davidweesI'm going to create some polls today to see what people would like to see in a chat. Please respond and share if you are interested in participating.
Day of the week? This is split into two polls since I'm only allowed 4 options.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
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Time of day?
(There's some bias here since I live in the Pacific Northwest and would like to participate.)
≈ 11 pm GMT
≈ 5 am GMT
≈ 11 am GMT
≈ 5 pm GMT
Poll ended at .
Google has some useful GMT to whatever-timezone-you-are-in calculators that may be useful for this last poll.
Style of chat?
Slow chat = Prompt posted, people have 24 hours to respond.
Live chat = Prompts posted, people respond as soon as they can, generally multiple prompts per session
Hybrid = Prompts posted, some people participate as live chat, some people participate as a slow chat.
Slow chat
Live chat
Hybdrid
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Topics? The wondering here is how much involvement from the community should there be in the topics discussed. Should a group of people decide? Should people post suggestions for topics each week? Do we want a host/moderator to decide on the topics?
Generated by the community
Decided by a regular moderator
Decided by a rotating host
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The polls are over. The sample size is small, but it's a starting point.
The results:
Topic: Most people would like a rotating host to decide on the topic, but some would like this topic to be generated by the community. This seems easy to compromise on.
Style of chat: A hybrid chat where some people participate in the live chat and other people post responses to prompts within a day or so seems the clear favourite.
Day & time: People prefer Saturday at 5 pm GMT (9 am PST)
Tomorrow is too soon, so let's try for next Saturday at 9 am PST.
Topic: TBD, but probably something around introductions.
#mathchat #mtbos #mathed #mathedchat #education #mathematics
We'll have to learn how these kinds of chats can work on #mastodon. I recall a conversation about needing to follow a boost bot of some kind, so that everyone can see the posts on their timelines, even if people are posting from different Mastodon instances.
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