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Virtual Conferences As a group we gathered on oncourse to decide what our topic would be for the wiki. We talked about different options. Some of our suggestions were:

We had some difficulties in staying connected, and several of us were having difficulties with staying in the conversation. Oncourse would sometimes not update the conversation and you would need to refresh your page for the new chat messages to load. It was also fun getting to know the other members in the group, so at time the conversation would travel to other areas of thought. We discussed a few wiki ideas that we decided were either a bit too complex or had been done before. We finally decided that we would focus on smaller Indiana towns that were located close to each of us. We discussed different towns, many of us changing and rethinking our original selections. We decided to touch on history and some things to do in our chosen small towns. A time was set up to reconnect and further discuss our wiki.

We gathered again on oncourse, and decided to take our discussion to facebook. We quickly befriended each other and started talking back and forth about "our small town wiki". This became somewhat difficult, because we could not talk to everyone at the same time. We also had problems getting everyone on at the same time. Also facebook chat was not always sending messages and some of us were getting error messages. After trying several times to get it up and going on facebook, we decided to go back to oncourse. The group chat feature in oncourse was much more appropriate for this project.

We chose small towns because we felt it would be interesting to rediscover the towns and to get information about the towns on the internet, that would be useful for someone who would like to visit.