Forums

Forums are useful for many-to-many communications and discussions. Many discussions can be conducted at the same time, and the information can flow equally in both directions from the original posters and the readers, who themselves become posters when they reply to the original post.

An online forum is a web based community of users where they can gather to discuss any topic that you can think of. Forums grow as the community of users grow and add content to the forum. An Internet forum is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived. Also, depending on the access level of a user or the forum set-up, a posted message might need to be approved by a moderator before it becomes visible. Forums have a specific set of jargon associated with them; e.g. a single conversation is called a "thread". It can contain a number of subforums, each of which may have several topics. Within a forum's topic, each new discussion started is called a thread, and can be replied to by as many people as wish to. Depending on the forum's settings, users can be anonymous or have to register with the forum and then subsequently log in order to post messages. On most forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages.

The forums are friendly, interactive discussion areas of our site where members can ask for and share their opinions, advice and experiences. It is a friendly discussion area on websites. Members can post questions and read and respond to posts by other members. The information provided on forums is contributed by people just like you. You can get a lot of great cruise advice in our forums. You should keep in mind that any information and advice offered by other members should be taken with a dose of common sense and treated as a starting point for your cruise research.

Forums are very useful as educational tool because one of its goals is to provide a place where educators can discuss how they are using models in the classroom as well as share their own experiences, trade advice, and ultimately, and perhaps most importantly, share their own material. For the international projects, it is sometimes used. I must say that they have very positive results. They have used forums in a level teaching (English) for some years. They have found out that forums work least well as discussion of issues and topics because not all students will use them or risk themselves so they have not made such on-line discussions integral to the teaching and learning; in which they function as an additional.

I am new to the idea of using forums for this purpose but my first foray into this area with a school in Taiwan was very rewarding and I learnt from it. The forums are very useful for the sharing of materials; posting of materials by myself; homework setting and sending to me; research sharing and posting queries for classmates and myself to assist with. Our forum has become a much more lively and effective source of e-learning for students. I think it takes time for a student forum to gain momentum - but if the right spirit of sharing and cooperation can be fostered, then it can work really well. Our forum boards are moderated by teachers and students but in reality, a well-established forum "polices" itself.

In conclusion, forum is a cheap and cheerful way of using team blog. This means that the person creating the blog has administrative privileges, and invites the pupils/students to the blog as contributors. If you're a member, you can post, but anyone can access the blog and read it. Sometimes blog contributions are part of students' portfolios; sometimes they're places where students post send-in tasks; and sometimes they're forums for interaction on a more general level between students (often in different countries).