Discussion Board Project - William Pegram

<body>  <a href="student.html">Students</a> <a href="instructor.html">Instructors</a> <a href="administrator.html">Administrators</a> <a href="help.html">Help</a> <a href="contact.html">Contact</a> <a href="oct02/loginform.html">October 2002 Version</a> <a href="changes.html">Changes</a><p>  <h2 align="left">Welcome to PegramBoard</h2> <p align="left">The goal of this site is to provide a discussion board capability that some instructors will want to use for their courses rather than using the discussion boards found in course management systems (e.g., Blackboard) or web portals (e.g., Yahoo). The comparative advantages of this tool are likely to result from its small size, e.g., </p> <ul> <li> better response times for the user</li> <li>increased ability to include capabilities in response to user requests</li> </ul> <p align="left">More capabilities are being added continually. The most significant addition to date is the capability to choose to receive email notification when a post is made on a topic. By contrast, Blackboard doesn't provide any email notification to users. The <a href="changes.html">changes</a> page describes recent and planned changes. I would welcome comments on both the current functioning of the tool and on these plans.</p> <p align="left">I developed a simple version of this tool in October 2002 for a class I was teaching in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason as an example of a data-driven website. The current development of this tool is through the <a href="http://www.nvcc.edu/dogwood" target="_blank">Dogwood project</a> at Northern Virginia Community College.</p> <p align="left">Bill Pegram, Northern Virginia Community College, <a href="mailto:wpegram@nvcc.edu"> wpegram@nvcc.edu</a>, <a href="http://www.nvcc.edu/home/wpegram">www.nvcc.edu/home/wpegram</a>, March 18, 2003</p> </body>