Describes the Hewlett Packard (HP) E-Mail Mentoring Program. Lists the program's four main components (teacher contacts, student participants, HP employee members, HP itself) and the application process. Relates how a library media specialist at Rosholt (Wisconsin) High School experienced the program. Concludes with the benefits of…

Suggests multimedia texts may be the common texts of the near future; highlights themes and issues arising from the integration of computer technology into literacy and language learning. Draws on four case studies to illustrate how creating multimedia texts gives students control over the creative process and the mechanics of text production. (NH)

In the T3 project (telematics for teacher training) seven European partners actively used telematics in their teaching programs. Partners collaborate through face-to-face meetings, videoconferencing and Web-based virtual workshops. The first virtual workshop organized within a telematic learning environment is reported. Concludes that to stimulate…

Describes a recent computer-supported cooperative-learning (CSCL) project called TSCL (Telematic (and IT) Supported Co-operative Learning) which builds upon distributed knowledge and constructivism. It takes the opportunity of Internet-based communication tools to allow students to participate in nonschool environments such as expert discussions,…

Discusses vicarious learning and the use of multimedia and distance learning technologies, focusing on attempts to generate and capture educationally effective discourse exchanges among and between students and faculty. Highlights include problems with available computer-medicated communication discourse formats; task-directed discussions; and…

This study examined the perceptions of certified public accountants concerning deterrents to participation in Web-based continuing professional education. Results of surveys included concerns about electronically mediated communication; the quality of course offerings; access to technology-associated resources; and the availability of necessary…

Discussion of distance education for higher education and the use of interactive computer-mediated communication systems focuses on the results of a survey of faculty and administrators that examined motivating factors for participation in distance education and inhibiting factors, including technical support, faculty workload, and concerns about…

Examines the impact of new forms of communication technology on our concepts of literacy and literacies, particularly in relation to personal computer use, and argues that the unique quality of hypertext structure underlying computer-mediated communication, asynchronous and nonlinear, challenges many accepted notions of the nature and structure of…

Describes a project that brought together, electronically, a group of high school student writers and university undergraduate English education majors. Notes that the project raised important and difficult questions about using Internet for writing instruction. Describes difficulties encountered. Explores questions raised about use of computer…

Addresses the disruption that frequently follows the insertion of computers into non-computer-mediated practices. Describes several traditional and computer-mediated peer-response strategies. Analyzes what is gained and lost when students move from traditional to computer-mediated peer-response groups. Acknowledges that computer-mediated…

Describes research using an artificial intelligence approach in the application of a Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (SOM) to the problem of classification of electronic brainstorming output and an evaluation of the results. The graphical representation of textual data produced by the Kohonen SOM suggests many opportunities for improving information…

The extranet--use of the Internet by a corporation's employees and extranet partners for safe communication, collaboration, and commerce--presents the opportunity for true, value-added services on the part network managers. Those that outsource the physical infrastructure management to service providers will have a head start on other networking…

Prompts computer-mediated communication scholars to exploit the possibilities offered by new, powerful, and flexible analytic tools for collecting, organizing, and exploring digital data. Summarizes a case study on an Italian computer conference. Concludes with a short outline of the new graphical computer-mediated communication environments and…

Addresses the opportunities offered by the Web to marketers. Considers the Web as a two-way communication model in which four different communication states can take place. Suggests the necessity of new concepts and models for marketers to manage their Web sites, and presents opportunities supporting the marketers' objectives in the new…

A study of interactions among 15 students in a computer-mediated graduate course found no sexist language or overt exclusionary behavior. However, women exercised less procedural leadership and influence on group products and had fewer productive contributions. (Author/SK)