[Technical] Using IRC for student development collaboration

[Jim Maunder]

At 10:53 PM 22/08/2005, you wrote:

>In the open source world, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is often used by
>dispirate (and often geographically distant) developers as a form of
>collaborative programming, real-time/low-cost interaction and information
>sharing.


I kind of like the idea of using 'forum' software for this kind of 
thing. The advantages are as far as I (a non-teacher(thank goodness)) 
can see are:

- everyone can see what the students and teachers write,
- the forum can be moderated,
- the teacher can set up forum threads or topics beforehand,
- the medium allows for more considered posts and responses

just me 2c

examples of fori are here:
http://forum.pcupdate.org/
http://forums.overlander.com.au/

rgds
Jim


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