Ronald, BaeckerFono, DavidBlume, LillianCollins, ChristopherCouto, Delia2021-05-252022-03-292021-05-252022-03-292007Baecker R., Fono D., Blume L., Collins C., Couto D. (2007) Webcasting Made Interactive: Persistent Chat for Text Dialogue During and About Learning Events. In: Smith M.J., Salvendy G. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting in Information Environments. Human Interface 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4558. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73354-6_29https://hdl.handle.net/10155/1294This paper presents a “persistent chat” extension to the ePresence Interactive Media webcasting infrastructure to support real-time commenting on and discussing of issues that arise during a learning event, followed by ongoing asynchronous dialogue about these issues while viewing the archives after the event. We report encouraging results of a field study of use of the system by students and a teaching assistant in a computer science class on communication skills, which encouraged students to review, think critically about, and improve their public speaking abilities.enwebcastingstreaming mediaeLearningdigital mediadigital videopersistent chatasynchronous communicationspublic speakingArticle, Research10.1007/978-3-540-73354-6_29