Introduction to EPost EPost EPost uses a Web-based interface to create online discussion boards. You can configure your conversation to be topical or threaded and choose when messages will be archived.
Participants can sort by thread, subject, author or date.
You can even choose to let participants use pseudonyms to encourage frank discussion. In her Summer 2000 class Race in U.S. Cinema , she posted questions to her EPost message board before each film screening. Students were required to respond both to her question and to another student's response. Discussing controversial topics - Phillip Thurtle, lecturer in Communications, found that EPost helped his students discuss topics that they found uncomfortable bringing up in class. In his Spring 2000 class The Cultural Impact of Information Technology , he found that a non-directed EPost message board gave his students a space in which to discuss controversial topics.