[Oer-community] Discussion forum instead of email

Annalisa Manca A.Manca at dundee.ac.uk
Wed Oct 6 13:44:47 MDT 2010


Dear all,


Maria has explained very well the problem (thanks!). I think email does not allow us to have an engaging discussion as much as a dedicated conversation space could do.




Probably BuddyPress (http://buddypress.org/) would be one of the most appropriate and usable resources, if you think this could be a solution I am available to start creating the page. 


Best wishes
Annalisa



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>>> Maria Gamba  06/10/10 6:51 PM >>>
  Dear OER Colleagues,

I am also in favor of finding a forum to house our discussion.  My email 
inbox is just not capable of housing all these emails coming from the 
OER group.

I value all the discussions but we need to find a better way to share 
all these valuable insights.

If I were a high-tech kind of person, I would make some suggestions.  
Perhaps some of you have ideas?

Best regards,

Maria Gamba
The University of Findlay
Associate Professor
College of Business



On 10/6/2010 12:57 PM, Steve Foerster 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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