Using Discussion Boards within and between Classes

Here's a Webinar that might be of interest to anyone teaching online.

If you are interested, let me know and I will make the arrangements. You do need to be at a computer for this session, we could set it up in a smart classroom if several of you want to participate.

Using Discussion Boards within and between Classes
Elluminate
Nov. 10, 2009 - 2:00pm-3:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: Margaret Anderson, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, SUNY Cortland

Margaret Anderson will describe how and why Live Journal blogs were used to maintain private student journals and provide a mechanism for group interaction within and between courses. Live Journals were also used to coordinate communication across six different courses which included two groups of students who were enrolled in three parallel courses, four instructors and four teaching assistants. Since Live Journal is a stand-alone program, it can be integrated into course delivery systems and used in a distance or blended formats. Live Journal allows for private, semi private and open communication and is particularly useful to facilitate communication among students who are not enrolled in the same course.