I'm wondering whether we might not have takers for this
seminar/course who have rather different long-term interests. For
example, there may be some who are interested in bringing CHAT to
bear on work situations, others interested in out-of-school or
museum-type activities, and others interested in K-12 school
settings, etc. Would it be a good idea to see the seminar as having
two strands: one general and concerned with the seminal texts, and
the other with specific applications? If so, perhaps different people
might take responsibility for the different strands.
As far as a discussion forum is concerned, I should like to recommend
the Knowledger Forum. I have been using it for a number of years in
both face-to-face classes and in distance mode. In both, I have
found it very satisfactory. It can be used at two levels: 1) it
simply provides a forum for threaded discourse, organized according
to specific topics ("views"); 2) it provides means for "rising above"
the post-by-post discussion to explore themes within the discussion
and to carry out a variety of analyses - by participants as well as
by the teachers - of issues that have proved of sustained or
profound interest. If you are interested, you can see how it has
served my student cohort in the introductory course for prospective
teachers (at the first level only, so far) by logging in at
http://knowledgeforum.ucsc.edu:27320/ First selct EDUC250_FALL02 as
the database and then log in with Username: visitor and Password:
guest
If this is of interest, I could relatively easily create a new
database for the envisaged seminar/course.
Gordon
-- Gordon Wells UC Santa Cruz. gwells@cats.ucsc.edu http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/
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