On Friday, November 3, 2000 at 1:40 AM, Duncan (duncan@smeed.org) wrote:

>I certainly agree with David that the medium is a means to an end but
>there are some advantages to newsgroups - threading being one - in
>comparison to e-mail. If I do get e-mail that I think should be widely
>disseminated then I often post (the reply to) it to the newsgroup for the
>class.

I agree with you, threading is important. That's why we've gone to
considerable lengths to maintain threading between email, news, and
web-based discussion. (Do the other people on this site even know that all
of those things are available here?)

I'm trying to find more educators to work with in developing Conversant -
based course-support sites. We had one extremely successful site this summer
that generated over 1000 messages in just a few weeks, partially because the
students could participate however they wanted (and partially because the
teacher was good at getting the students involved, among other reasons).

blah blah blah... just thinking out loud, mostly. From the sounds of things,
you guys alrady have your online course-support stuff figured out pretty
nicely.

Seth