Teaching American History Forum

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Teaching American History Forum

• Peopling the American Past A Collaboration of 7
  School Districts

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What do I use the forum for?

• Posting workshop reflections
• Posting book group reflections
• Posting replies/comments to other reflections
• Reading replies/comments to your own and others
  reflections

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Why the forum format? Where is the forum?

• Online community to facilitate discussion
• Connected to the main website http//chnm.gmu.edu
  /7tah/
• Collaboration gt Workshop Reflections or
• Collaboration gt Book Groups
• http//chnm.gmu.edu/7tah/forum/login.php
• After your username and password are created for
  the first time you will receive a notification
  e-mail.

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Logging In

• Username format First_Last (e.g. Elly_Greene)
• Password your first name with no spaces, all
  lowercase (e.g. elly)

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TAH Main Forum Page
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TAH Main Forum Page
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TAH Main Forum Page
Navigation
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TAH Main Forum Page
Categories
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TAH Main Forum Page
Forums
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Post a Reflection

1. Locate the category you need to post to. (e.g.
   Workshop Reflections)
2. Locate the forum you need to post to. (e.g.
   Summer Institute)
3. Click on the forum title to enter the forum.

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Post a Reflection (contd)

1. Inside the forum, you will see a list of the
   program participants names.
2. Find your name and click on it to post your
   reflection.

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Post a Reflection (contd)

1. You will see a screen with your name at the top
   left. This screen is where your reflection and
   all replies to it will be posted. (Notice that
   the screen shows you in the Workshop forum called
   Summer Institute.)
2. To post your reflection here, click on the post
   reply button beneath your name.

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Post a Reflection (contd)

1. You will see a box called Message body to write
   your reflection in. (You can copy and paste text
   from Word or any similar program in here.)
2. After you have finished writing your reflection,
   press the submit button to post it. (If you
   decide to first preview you must still click
   submit or the reflection will not post!)

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Post a Reflection (contd)

• After posting a reflection you will be
  redirected shortly after to see the message you
  just created

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Posting a Reflection (final)

• After a reflection is posted, the moderator of
  the forum will be notified via e-mail that you
  have posted.
• Every time someone posts a reply to or comments
  on your reflection you will receive an e-mail.
  This e-mail will also contain a link to the
  reflection.

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Reading and posting replies to other reflections

• You can read and post replies to everyone within
  your group.
• You can read all reflections from anyone who uses
  the forum.
• Groups are divided in the forum according to the
  book groups.

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Read and post replies to other reflections

• 1. Once inside the forum you can see if
  someone has posted their reflection if the
  replies column next to someones name there has
  a number greater than 0.
• Click on someones name under the Topics
  heading to read what theyve written and what
  other people have replied.
• To read other peoples reflections, go to the TAH
  Main Forum Page and find the forum you wish to
  read from. Click on the forum to enter it.
• (e.g., Mount Vernon or Group 1)

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Reading other reflections and replies

1. Other reflections and replies/comments will be
   posted underneath the original reflection. Scroll
   down to read them.
2. If you wish to reply/post a comment to a
   reflection, click the post reply button. If you
   wish to go back and read someones elses
   reflection, you can click the back button or
   click on the forum name (e.g. TAH Main Forum Page
   gt Frederick Douglass House, click on Frederick
   Douglass House).

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Posting replies to other reflections

1. Enter a message in the box Message body in the
   middle of the page.
2. Click the submit button to submit the reply.
   (If you click the preview button first, you
   must still click on submit to have your reply
   actually post.)

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Posting replies to other reflections

1. Your reply/comments to another reflection will
   show right beneath the original reflection or
   below the last reply/comments posted by someone
   else.
2. Every time you respond to someone elses
   reflection they will receive an e-mail
   notification with a link to read what you have
   posted.

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Other Forum Features

• Forum Instructions - posted guidelines, these
  slides for step-by-step instructions
• Search - search all the messages on the forum
• Memberlist - everyone using the forum
• Profile - your personal profile information

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Memberlist

• Access to the memberlist for the forum
• Shows school affiliation, number of posts for a
  user
• E-mail button (will bring up a new window to send
  an e-mail to that user)

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Profile

• Change your e-mail address, school name, or
  password
• Create a signature with name, address, school,
  contact information
• Check a box to always attach signature if you
  would like
• Click submit for changes to take effect

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Logging Out

1. To log out of the forums, simply click the log
   out button in the top navigation bar.
2. To log back in, you can re-enter your username
   and password on the next page that displays.
3. To get back to the Main TAH website, click on
   the link to it from this final page.

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Questions, Comments, Help

• These slides will be on the main Teaching
  American History/Peopling the Past website
• http//chnm.gmu.edu/7tah/
• Collaboration gt Workshop Reflections and
• Collaboration gt Book Group Reflections
• Other questions or help, contact Patrice
  Morston at pmortson_at_gmu.edu