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Berggren, Anne G. – 1996
The abandonment of face-to-face voice conversations in favor of the use of electronic conversations in composition classes is an issue to be interrogated. In a recent push to "prepare students for the 21st century," teachers are asked to teach computer applications in the humanities--and composition teachers, who will teach writing in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes
Zukowski, Angela Ann – Momentum, 1999
Recounts the discussions at the five-day Bishop's Institute for Social Communication in September 1999 held in Bangkok, Thailand to study and reflect on the impact of new communication technologies for "Being Church" in the 21st century. Describes the passion with which the local Church in Asia embraces of the countless possibilities…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholics, Clergy, Comparative Education

Two Horses, Michael – WICAZO SA Review, 1998
An Internet mailing list designed to conduct a council-style forum among American Indian people encountered problems such as non-Indians posing as Indians, intertribal differences impeding consensus, and the lack of socioeconomic diversity among participants. American Indian culture may be philosophically incompatible with the impersonal nature of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indians, Appropriate Technology, Computer Anxiety
Rouzie, Albert J. – 1998
A composition instructor became interested in the playfulness of electronic discourse and how it might reshape student composition. He noticed that playfulness sets many hypertexts off from their better-behaved print ancestors, suspecting that the playful elements of student hypertexts were more than mere "play," that they opened writers…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Techniques, Computer Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication
Ediger, Marlow – 1997
Technology has been making rapid strides since its inception in the school curriculum. In 1970, four kinds of software were available for use in reading instruction, although they were criticized for deficiencies. Throughout the 1980s, the number of schools having computers and sufficient software increased. Advantages in using computers in…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
LaGrandeur, Kevin – 1997
Computer mediated communication (CMC) tends to erase power structures because such communication somehow undermines or escapes discursive limits. Online discussions seem to promote rhetorical experimentation on the part of the participants. Finding a way to explain disparities between electronic discussion and oral discussion has proven difficult.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education