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Make students feel like they can contribute to the group!
Rules!
- Never answer a question by email (unless it's personal) > reply is "post this to the forum" Why? Because 359 other students have the same question
- Setup Respond to general questions quickly
- Respond to course work related questions more slowly
- Twitter > rapid response and comment in labs and in lectures - use Tweetdeck
The 5 types of forums
- Announcements from staff
- Admin Q&A - for general questions
- Topic specific fora (so staff and students can subscribe selectively - in large groups colleagues can distribute the workload of replying by subscribing to their specialism
- Social cafe Interesting links etc > post links to interesting articles, videos etc.
- Wishlist / suggestion box forum? (is this could be anonymous?) > suggestion boxTwitter > rapid response and comment in labs and in lectures - use Tweetdeck
Add dynamic content
Much of this can be automated.
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