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OnlineDiscussionSites

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Online Discussion Sites

 

Directory of discussion site tools

 

 

For students

 

Ning

 

Tappedin: VLE that includes synchronous chat

 

Youth Voices: exchanges between high school students

 

Google Groups

 

Dweeber: Students can share work and chat

 

MyFastForum

 

Chatzy

 

Geocities

 

FinalSite: Embed discussion forums into class websites

 

YackPack

 

Screencast: Using YackPack

 

Elluminate: Video-based discussions

 

AcademicTalk: synchronous discussion tool (Windows)

 

Vivaty: virtual 3-D chat sites

 

Chatzy: set up private chat sites

 

Flashmeeting: sharing using Flash with video

 

SoundOut

 

YouthNoise

 

Takingitglobal

 

National Youth Rights Association

 

Discussion of students' learning on social spaces

 

Yahoo Groups

 

Yahoo Groups: middle school YA literature discussion site

 

PICCLE Forum: Pedagogy for Intercultural Critical Literacy Education (Moodle courses and forums)

 

 

For adults/teachers

 

Ning

 

Tappedin: VLE that includes synchronous chat

 

FreeConferencePro

 

Today's Meet: Foster backchannel talk during presentations 

 

Teachade: Site for exchanging teaching ideas

 

The Reader’s Place

 

Grupthink: share ideas with others

 

Readers’ Paradise

 

Flash Meeting

 

Enter the Muse

 

The Book Forum

 

TalkaboutBooks

 

Beat Ink (organized by genre)

 

Books and Reading Forum 

 

Ning discussion site for Terry Freedman's Coming of Age

 

 

Using online discussion sites

 

Wikieducator: Course: Facilitating Online Communities

 

Peter Smagorinsky: Activities for Promoting Discussions--ftf and digital

 

Argunaut Project: Tools for enhancing discussions, including Diagalo argument map

 

Video: online discussion of literature at Timilty Middle School, Roxbury, MA.

 

Michelle Comstock, Writing Vicariously: The Politics of Presence in the Distance Learning Classroom, Currents in Electronic LIteracy

 

Richard Hay, Virtual Conversations: The Use of Internet-based Synchronous Chat in Basic Writing, Currents of Electronic Literacy

 

T. DeVere Wolsey, Literature Discussion in Cyberspace: Young Adolescents Using Threaded Discussion Groups to Talk About Books, Readingonline

 

 

Safety issues in online discussion sites

 

Wesley Fryer: Teach Digital: safety issues in online discussions

 

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