Comments on Facilitating Online: Last night's meeting

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2009-08-06T04:26:59.522+12:00

That's right Erkan, the email forum is currently s...

2009-08-05T18:28:42.387+12:00

That's right Erkan, the email forum is currently set to announcement only, for the following reasons:

Email forums are a little too effective :) in that they work so well for some people, that others feel swamped by email, when they normally use email for work purposes and the like.

Many people are used to email forums, and we find that having this option tends to prevent a blogging network forming effectively. This is not to say that a blogging network is preferred, but it is to say we hope that as little as possible prevents the experience of a blogging network.

So for these reasons I preferred it that the course started without the email forum on, with a view to turning it on when we enter into the "forum communities" topic, and everyone was prepared to manage an increase in their volume of email.

It will be interesting to see if this decision proves to be a barrier to communication over all, or an effective encouragement toward networked communications.

Hi Mireille, same for me when I click reply on Sar...

2009-08-05T15:22:20.213+12:00

Hi Mireille, same for me when I click reply on Sarah's mail: msg: I do not have the required permission to post.

Since the google groups link was also removed from the FOC page on Wikiversity perhaps the facilitators do not want the usage of the google groups much ? or this option was just not yet tested :-)

interactive conversions: you could make a post about that :-) let's see who replies. In the meantime I guess there will be some kind of smaller clusters. Some have Skype and talk with a limited amount of people directly. But I guess Elluminate could be used more for meeting besides the "normal" meetings.

Erkan YILMAZ

I have no idea how to have interactive conversatio...

2009-08-05T05:02:24.656+12:00

I have no idea how to have interactive conversations with the group. The google group doesn't allow to post message or reply from your email or within the group mail

Mireille