social software

Creating community amongst distance ed students 4

Posted August 17th, 2007 by robwales
in

Reaching critical mass

The site has now been running for just on three weeks and we have sent 190 invites and have 97 members and heading for 100 shortly. The site has had an amazing 14,000+ page hits. There are 4 different sub groups with varying numbers of members and at last count over 22 different forum
discussions taking place.

Creating community amongst distance ed students 2

Posted July 3rd, 2007 by robwales
in

Setting up the group site

We decided that the ning.com community was the best tool for us as we are able to control access and security while giving members quite a degree of freedom within the site.

Using wiki's in the classroom

Posted March 21st, 2007 by robwales
in

Wikis are revolutionising the classroom and reducing the amount of one-way communication.

A wiki is a tool for mass collaborative authoring that is accessed via a website. It allows visitors to add,
remove, edit and change the online content (source: Wikipedia).

Syndicate content