I participate in about six of these per year.
At 2:36 PM -0400 9/17/97, brian_drayton@TERC.EDU wrote:
> One fascinating thing that I have noted anecdotally is that many of
>the people who try to mount eletronic discussion groups in education don't
>actually use those forums themselves very much.
> This reminds me -- should it? -- of advocates of qualitative evaluation
>and assessment methods for the classroom, who nevertheless use the most
>hidebound -- and tried-and-true -- quantitative measures of their
>teachers' performance.
> The crucial question for me is, what niche should electronic forums fill
>for the professional, as opposed (for example) for the hobbyist (know of a
>couple of lively lists for teachers, too, so they are honorable
>exceptions). I make this contrast because there are lively, long-term
>conversations in many domains such as music (e.g. the Grateful Dead
>lists), literature (e.g. the Jane Austen list) and pets, but not many
>lively discussions involving teacher-enhancers or people trying to build
>electronic forums.
> What is your experience?
>
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