Chapter 4Choices

The technology spectrum

This book’s companion website (e-tivities.com) provides many links to all the platforms described in this chapter, and new ones as they become available. The 20 suggestions here have been tried for e-tivities. We don’t know enough yet to be able to suggest which are more important or ‘best’. I’ve just indicated the places to start, that I know have worked for some designers and emoderators in practice.

The concept of e-tivities started with text-based asynchronous forums or bulletin boards. Asynchronous text-based forums were what I had available at the time… and they are still highly accessible and good to deploy for low-cost, high-value learning activities. Text and dialogue continue to be the primary ...

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