Meg's BrushUP! objectives

Your BrushUP! objectives

What are you hoping to learn from this module? Your objectives can be the same as mine, but is there anything else you are expecting to learn? Write down your thoughts, discuss with a partner or small group in the class,or discussit on this wiki's discussion forum.

Discuss it on the discussion thread for this topic.

Introduction

Your WetPaint wiki is automatically set up with a discussion forum under the Naviation menu in the left-hand rail. In this module, you will learn:

Focus questions: Discussion forums

Have you ever visited a discussion forum before? What are their characteristics? What are posts? Are threads and topics the same thing? How do you navigate a forum? Have you ever posted to a forum before? Did you have to sign up first? How easy was it to do? Write down your thoughts, discuss with a partner or small group in the class,or discuss it on this wiki's discussion forum.

Discuss it on the discussion thread for this topic.

WetPaint's discussion forums

In WetPaint, a Discussion Forum is attached to your wiki site as a whole, as well as to each individual page you create. This allows contributors to comment on both individual pages as well as your entire wiki project. Any threads that are added to individual pages are automatically added to the wiki-wide Discussion Forum. You can also search forums to find threads of interest.

Exercise: Start a thread on the wiki-wide Discussion Forum

1. Click on 'Discussion Forum'.
2. Click on 'StartThread' at the right.
3. Fill in the Subject line and post your comments or thoughts in the Message field.
4. Provide 'tags' or keywords so that others can search and find your message.
5. Check the box 'Watch This Thread' if you want to add the thread to your 'Watchlist' under your profile.
   
6. Click 'Post'.

Check out WetPaint's FAQs for more instructions including how to delete threads

Exercise: Start a thread on a page's Discussion Forum

1. Navigate to the page where you want to add a discussion thread.
   
2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to the 'Threads' section.
   
3. Click on 'Start Thread' at the right.
4. Fill in the Subject line and post your comments or thoughts in the Message field.
5. Provide 'tags' or keywords so that others can search and find your message.
6. Check the box 'Watch This Thread' if you want to add the thread to your 'Watchlist' under your profile.
   
7. Click 'Post'.
   
8. Your thread will also be added to the wiki-wide Discussion Forum.
   

Check out WetPaint's FAQs for more instructions including how to delete threads

Watching threads

To save you having to go through all the discussion forums on your site to see the latest updates to threads you have started, you can 'watch' individual threads. When you 'watch' a thread, the thread is added to your 'Watchlist' under your personal profile.

Exercise: View your Watchlist

Reflection

Write down your thoughts, discuss with a partner or small group in the class,or discussit on this wiki's discussion forum.

Links and resources

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