Frances Bell

Seems very dangerous to mention the law - may make it more likely to be invoked
It's not clear to me if the law applies to forums or threads within forums.
I have found (here and elsewhere) that the longer a thread becomes, the more difficulty  people have in  remembering who said what, and opportunities for misunderstanding increase, along with the heat generated.  I have wondered if Moodle's provision of different ways to view the thread contributes to this in long threads (though it is a useful feature).  Perhaps social norms evolve to help matters, such as participants starting a new, related thread or choosing not to comment (a more general case of Godwin's law).

I think that's an important point for collaborative glossaries where students are sharing (like Lesli describes) as I found that the random entry really encouraged students to contribute so their entry had a turn to come up.

Also if you are able to make the glossary public you can share it with another class. A blogging glossary developed by masters students was made available to first year students as a resource for their research on their own blogging assignment.

I would be interested in any tips on this re-publication of glossaries.  It seems productive to show how you value student work by publishing it more widely but I am not always sure of the best way to do (exporting from glossaries seems to have problems with images, and you 'lose' the authors).

 

Bump ....
Reminder to Peter Sereinigg  to share those papers

Janet, I think we have a lot of common ground here.
Exercising choice is not always easy or even possible but I do worry about explanations of dependency or eating disorders that remove any self-determination from 'sufferers'.  When in a crisis situation people may not be able to exercise choice, but moving from there to beyond their dependency / addiction those people will need help, support and also need to make positive choices about how things might be different - and being trapped in a mindset that says "it's not my fault, I can't do anything" is probably unhelpful.