Monday, November 15, 2004

5.02 - Discussion board software

Looked around the various types of software but got rather 'lost' because I could not see how they could be implemented easily, Would have liked to see some real demonstrations / real applications of the various chat/board type software. However did recognise IPB Demo Board as the basis for the ECE discussion boards within the University.

Found the look round activeworlds and MOOAPI quite useful. The latter has some entertaining demos. Tried to set up a test MOO with activewords but failed as it 'did not recognise me as a user'. It wouldn't even let me send an anonymous support message. Started to think about trying to set something up through their download software until noticed it was over 2 megabytes.

I ran out of time on this one so may return to it later by reading appropriate chapters in 'E-Learning Tools..' book . An initial skim read of this seemed to suggest that this book was concise and clear in its definitions.

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