Share & Collaborate for Free with TinyChat

Last week in my Avoiding Faculty Burnout in Online Teaching class, one of the instructors told us about this excellent website where you can just type in your name and invite people to attend your meeting. Nothing could be easier! You can invite others by email and/or Twitter or other social networks, use your webcam or not, and even embed your chat room in your blog or facebook page. Desktop sharing is included, however if you want to be able to record your sessions, you will need to pay $14.95 per month. Go to http://tinychat.com/ to try it out. I could see myself using this for just-in-time training or teaching, especially since I could embed the code right into an ANGEL page (See how in my previous post http://ldriskelthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/05/integrating-rich-media-into-angel-lms.html)
and invite students to a virtual room like this one below: