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LeNoir, W. David – Clearing House, 1998
Describes Multiple-User Dungeons (MUDs), multiple-user computer programs that allow participants to interact with others in "real time" exchanges. Discusses their potential in the writing classroom and beyond, and notes their potential for faculty development activities. Offers a list of Internet resources, some actual MUD addresses, and other…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Discussion (Teaching Technique)

Minock, Mary; Shor, Francis – Computers and Composition, 1995
Notes that Interdisciplinary Studies Program faculty at Wayne State University devised courses and assignments using computer conferencing to create a collaborative, democratic, and nonauthoritarian learning community. Discusses an assignment based on the film "Grand Canyon" that encouraged students to take on roles of their racial and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning

Irvin, L. Lennie – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1999
Argues that networked classrooms offer a number of opportunities for effective writing instruction. Argues that shared discourse in the networked-computer classroom has three levels forming a continuum of interactivity: students sending messages "at,""to," and "between" each other. Offers classroom examples of each level of discourse. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Discourse Analysis
Dyrli, Odvard Egil – Technology & Learning, 1995
A collection of teacher-initiated telecommunication projects for use in elementary and secondary schools. Projects utilize electronic mail and the Internet to help students communicate with peers in class and all over the world, with scientists in the South Pole, researchers in Australia, and WWII veterans. Project descriptions include electronic…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
Benson, Chris, Ed. – Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network Magazine, 1997
This theme issue focuses on the challenges and opportunities of online technology as it is used by teachers and students in rural classrooms in Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Vermont. "Computer Country" (Cynthia Baughman) is an overview of online collaborations of teachers in the Bread…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Class Activities, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks
Richardson, Laura A. – 1999
The problem addressed in this practicum was that most teachers at the author's middle school were not fully using the school's network resources in their day-to-day classroom activities, in spite of district technology initiatives. The goal of the practicum was to empower a cadre of representative mentor teachers to fully utilize the school…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Class Activities, Computer Literacy, Computer Mediated Communication