July 31, 2007
Invitation to Connection Gate
Michael Patton at Reclaiming the Mind has been gracious enough to fix me up with a room at Connection Gate. I’d like to invite BHT fellows and readers to get the free software and be able to join me for some events in the “IMonk” room.
Connection Gate is a “chat/IM” type client, but it is tailored for online education. Seminaries, churches and businesses use the software. It’s rather impressive. (It’s also Windows only at this point.)
When you get registered at Connection Gate, you’ll log on, go to “rooms” (tent icon) in the “Public” area, look for Christianity and then look for my room and some of the rooms run by RTM, such as the First Things room. If you have a microphone, we can enable complete audio interaction.
RTM uses this for their “Converse With Scholars” program, which I think is one of the best uses of technology I’ve seen in the Christian blogosphere. You can find archived episodes at RTM.
I’ll be announcing some discussion events in the room in the near future. The more of you that have the software, the more fun we’ll have. This is going to be a good thing and I hope you’ll give it a try.
