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Nurph (found at Nur.ph) is a new service designed to enable users to browse the web and chat about web content with others. Here’s how it works, go to Nur.ph and enter the url of a website. Nur.ph will then open the site and place a chat box in the lower right corner of the page. Through that chat box you can invite friends to chat about the website you’re viewing. You have two options for logging into Nur.ph; you can create a Nur.ph account or use your Twitter account to log in.
Watch the video below to learn more about Nur.ph.
Applications for Education
Nur.ph could be useful for having an online discussion with students about the content they find on the web. You could lead the discussion or you could have students share their findings and lead discussions. A class that is discussing current news stories could use Nur.ph to share, compare, and discuss articles from a collection of websites.
