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- 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
- Respond to general questions quickly
- Respond to course work related questions more slowly or better still with "anyone out there have any suggestions?" > You don't really explain the material until you explain it to someone else.
- Twitter > Having a Twitter tag for the module allows for rapid response and comment in during labs and in lectures - you can use Tweetdeck to look at these during / after the class
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
- Interesting links etc > post links to interesting articles, videos etc.
- Wishlist / suggestion box forum? (could be anonymous)
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