Resources

I've been adding some resources to the Resources folder in the course. Most are examples of tools you can use in an online course. Today I put in a link to CommentPress, which is an interesting theme/plugin for WordPress which makes it very easy to connect comments to a text. This could be a great tool for certain kinds of online courses, assuming you have a way to get the text into your blog. It might not be great for really long texts, such as books, but how about if you studied a serialized book like the Samuel Pepys diary and had students comment on some of the entries, or you had English language learners take turns commenting on paragraphs in a story. Here's the description of CommentPress from their website:

CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.