We do live in a networked world. Seemingly, every movie, every current automobile, every company and almost every common household item we encounter has a web site. Thus, it is only natural to encounter a software program that enables instructors and students to share documents within this networked world. Forum98 purports to provide such an environment for educational purposes. Students and instructors log on to a centrally located server and asynchronously work on common projects, such as term papers, manuscripts, reports, etc.
Participants can add or delete information, add notes, add pictures and other related activities.
The instructor sets up particular permissions for each user. User can have full access or read only access for a particular document. Students and instructors also have the ability to create links to other documents found in the server. That is, a Biology professor might create a link from her syllabus to the first midterm examination. One of the advantages of Forum98 is that it allows individuals, who cannot create HTML code to create links and new documents within a networked environment.