[Oer-community] Discussion forum instead of email

[Jennie Lawrence]

Dear Susan and community:

For that matter Moodle does have its own discussion board built into its
basic programming .. Do you have a Moodle available for use?

Best, Jennie

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Hanley, Gerry <ghanley at calstate.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> Looking for high quality and FREE online teaching and learning materials?
> Check out MERLOT- Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online
> Teaching at www.merlot.org
>
>
> -----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=-
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stephen H. Foerster
> > http://hiresteve.com
> > http://hiresteve.com/blog
> > http://wikieducator.org/steve
> >
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