Some, however, will still need to fight the urge to get caught up in the content. The very nice thing about using PowerPoint for presentations is that once the presentation is prepared for class, it can be presented from a computer, printed for use as transparencies or handouts. PowerPoint takes care of creating all the pages and navigation buttons. You can provide students with your lecture for review at anytime. You can even present the presentation from a classroom with a networked computer and projector in a web browser.
Many professors currently take advantage of newsgroups and mailing lists in their courses.
Newsgroups and mailing lists allow electronic discussions to take place among students and professors, or by anyone else with access to the list or group. You and your students can use these resources to ask and answer questions, post useful resources, continue discussions outside of class, etc. The course Web page has links to more information about creating newsgroups and mailing lists. They are also available using the Toolkit. MOOS and MUDS facilitate real time electronic discussion.