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5 things to do with a forumFiled in ILT on November 30th 04 . I’ve been using a simple robust Web based forum with a number of students studying an ICT module on an Applied Science course – students include 16-19, mature full time and mature evening class students. Teaching is primarily face-to-face but with online follow up. I used the Gossamer Threads forum as it is free to non-profit organisations, offers the choice of threaded or linear display of responses to topics, easy to use, relatively secure, and not amazingly popular (less hacking). Gossamer Threads forum uses PERL and MySQL, an unusual combination but it seems to work fine on basic commercial Web space. The forum also offers ‘private messaging’ and attachment upload. At present, I have found…
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