"Let's meet in TodaysMeet''

What's this?
It is basically a site for creating meeting rooms.
How it works?
Very Simple. Go to TodaysMeet website:

1. Name your room(tip: pick a simple name so your students would be able to find it easily)
2. Choose the time you want your room to be active
3. Create your room
4. Write your name
5.   Join the meeting(or start the meeting if you are the creator)
6. Start asking questions.( Ok...What's your favourite animal is a daft example...)

 Using it in language learning
A very good activity to start with TodaysMeet is to  set a question and brainstorm answers from your students. Use it in pre-teaching writing. Learners can answer the question or questions from their home PC or their internet phones.

Benefits

•  The fact that is text-based communication may reduce anxiety of your learner in producing the written output.
• It is motivating because it works like the SMSs which is the most popular way of communication among young people. 
• 140 characters that is the limit for each entry  would make the students to form more concise opinions.
• Asynchronous text-based  peer communication promotes error notification and feedback. The errors in this environment are more easily observed and the possibilities to correct grammatical and syntax mistakes are higher.
•  The content could be saved and be adapted to a useful teaching material or it could help teachers observe classroom's progress.

There are of course many benefits that depend on how you use TodaysMeet. 

Limitations

Abbreviations(e.g. CU2morrow, me2, UnI2gether, 4ever etc) is a way of writing used in SMSs in order to write more in the limited space of 140 characters. Spelling skills decline by this kind of writing so be4 -oops!- before using TodaysMeet you'd better ask your learners use full spelling instead of abbreviations and telescopic text.