tutorials over messaging application

[xplanor]

Just wondering if anybody has ever given a one-to-one tutorial over messaging application here? I'm thinking of MSN, Yahoo and Skype. Was experience useful? Or perhaps it wasn't?

 

[stapel]

I've conversed with people who have attempted to "do math" over the phone or through chat sessions. From what I've heard, it ain't pretty.... :shock:

 

[mmm4444bot]

… has [anybody] ever given a one-to-one tutorial over messaging application here?

Are you referring to the Private Message (PM) feature here?

 

[daon]

I have done it through text messaging before with a friend. Very fusturating, even with a full-qwerty blackberry.

 

[xplanor]

thanks for the replies .. no I've just started on these here forums, so I wasn't referring to private messages.

sounds like a pretty negative experience .. I see.

Overall the forum style tutoring, or better said, question and answer mode seems to be pretty good.

However, what it lacks is that guarantee of quick response that real-time applications give you, and the fact that there's a lack of ownership of the answer to the question. That would be the advantage of the chatting application.

I'm just taking a look at this ziizoo app ... maybe there's a few others. Cheers.

 

[Deleted member 4993]

thanks for the replies .. no I've just started on these here forums, so I wasn't referring to private messages.

sounds like a pretty negative experience .. I see.

Overall the forum style tutoring, or better said, question and answer mode seems to be pretty good.

However, what it lacks is that guarantee of quick response that real-time applications give you, and the fact that there's a lack of ownership of the answer to the question. That would be the advantage of the chatting application.

I would disagree

I'm just taking a look at this ziizoo app ... maybe there's a few others. Cheers.

 

[clb393]

Happened with me a couple days ago. Instead of a math problem on Yahoo, some smileys replaced some of the problem, so it was something like [angry face]+8a=(9+[cool face]. Haha. I forgot exactly what my friend said but make sure your smileys are disabled before tutorials over IM! Lol.