Forums can be used in a number of ways. What you do depends on what type of teaching you are involved in and what you want to achieve. Many teachers in the languages department find forums particularly useful for facilitating quality thought and interaction among pupils, while developing language skills.
The most effective forums are often forums where students are required to return more than once, read the posts of their peers, and respond to them. To facilitate this kind of forum activity, for academic and adult learners, it is sometimes necessary to create a staggered grading structure and timeline for forum posts, so that, for example, pupils have to make a first post in response to a teacher, then return at a later date
and read the posts of their peers, and respond to those.
