Here
are some instructions for usin the AAUW Chat Rooms.
- Login to the AAUW
Member Center with your AAUW member ID (on your mailing labels from the Association).
- Click
the link to "Chat/Message
Boards".
- Click the "Click here for the
chat room" and a new window will open with a "Nickname" box to
appear.
- Enter your name as your nickname
(e.g. I'd just use "Nancy Shoemaker") and click "Connect".
- Find yourself in the general chat
room. If your "chat" is scheduled for the AAUW NC "room",
click the "Rooms" tab in the upper left, and then double-click on "AAUW
NC" in the list.
Here are some things to try if you
want to practice "chatting" before your first "real" chat:
- Enter a short (one line messsage)
in the box at the bottom. Hit Enter or the "Send Message" button to
the right.
- Enter a longer message -- let it
wrap to the next line "automatically" before you hit Enter. What do
you think others in the chat room would see while you were typing?
- Copy some text from another document
into the window. What happens when you hit send?
- Select the User Tab at the top
right. Select yourself from the list (or another person if someone else is there
and also "practicing"). Explore the buttons for Info, Private Chat,
Flagged User, and Ignore. Can you tell what each of them does?
- Select the Room Tab -- it has two
buttons, New and Enter. What would these do?
- Click the Settings button in the
lower right. The Profile tab allows you to change the information about you that
others access with the Info tab. The Options and Fonts tab change the appearance
of your screen. Do those changes persist for the next time you login?
If you think you'd like to use chat
rooms for more formal discussions (like committee meetings), see the AAUW Chat
Room Guidelines, http://rtpnet.org/aauwnc/00Documents/ChatGuidelines.PDF.
While this tool certainly won't *replace*
the other ways we communicate with each other, for some of us it may be very useful
and I encourage you to "check it out" and think about whether you'd
like to use it for other things.
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