[Oer-community] Discussion forum instead of email

[Hanley, Gerry]

Dear Susan and OER community,

If you wish,  you are welcome to use MERLOT Voices (http://voices.merlot.org - it's free and open) to create and manage a wide range of discussion forums within a "Community Conversation"  that can include sharing documents, people setting up blogs, IMing, etc.

It's free to sign up.  The registration process requires people to provide some simple/basic info and there is a quick administrative process to confirm your registration.  

Feel free to see what others have done - the California State University's "Noyce Voices" might be one http://voices.merlot.org/group/noycescholarsinthecsu that illustrates the multiple discussion forums within a single community.    If I can be of some assistant, let me know.

Cheers,
Gerry



Gerard L. Hanley, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Academic Technology Services
Executive Director, MERLOT
California State University, Office of the Chancellor
401 Golden Shore
Long Beach, CA, USA  90802
562-951-4259
ghanley at calstate.edu

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-----Original Message-----
From: oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca [mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca] On Behalf Of Susan D'Antoni
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 10:22 AM
To: oer-community at athabascau.ca
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Discussion forum instead of email

Dear Colleagues,

We are using Mailman because it is used by our host institution.
However we will consider this suggestion with the technical staff.

Best,

Susan

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Steve Foerster <steve at freecurricula.org> wrote:
> Annalisa wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if it would be possible to use a discussion
>> forum instead of email...
>
> I think that's a *great* idea!  I find that discussion forums are much
> easier when it comes to keeping track of a number of different
> conversations at once.
>
> It's also something the OER community doesn't have yet.  There are quite
> a few email lists.
>
> And phpBB is just as free as Mailman.
>
> Susan, is this possible?
>
> -=Steve=-
>
>
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