iSean

every now and then i am going to try and post the thinking that i do as i try and make changes to my own teaching and this is a quick example.

so, the semester is fast approaching. i think i’ll have two online classes this upcoming semester and i have yet to decide on the tools i’ll use to help manage my class. i’d appreciate hearing from others (either via comments or email) as to your recommendations. i have used phpBB forums in the past and even tried paring it up with postnuke. and, i have tried blogger.com for my students.

i ended up dropping postnuke within about 2 weeks because my students were having far too much trouble with the university login and password and my phpBB forum login and password and the postnuke login and password. i have now asked them to use the same login and password for phpBB forums that they use for the university (actually, i just recommend it . . . not all choose to do so). i could go with postnuke again, but it’s not really designed for classroom.

i am now trying to decide between moodle and tikiwiki. this is where i’d appreciate some help. if you have thoughts, please share them with me. i’ll greatly appreciate your efforts. i like playing around with moodle, but i really like the phpBB forums better than moodle’s implementation. i know i could still use my forum and just ignore the forums in moodle, but that’s an extra hassle. tikiwiki is intriguing, but i’ve never played with it and i am not sure how it can be an improvement over moodle or other tools. i have installed a test tikiwiki site, but i have yet to play with it beyond a cursory effort.