Computer Mediated Communications Workshop

• Defining computer mediated communications (CMC)
• Understanding types of asynchronous CMC systems
• Electronic Mailing Lists (E-mail, distribution lists,listservs
• Threaded Discussion Forums
• Understanding types of synchronous CMC systems
• Chat
• Multi-User Dimension (MUD) and Multi-Object Oriented (MOO)
• CMC teaching/learning activities and issues

• Overview of Asynchronous Conferencing Systems
  
  
• Overview of Synchronous Conferencing Systems
  

• Conferencing on the World Wide Web
  http://thinkofit.com/webconf/



• Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion
  http://www.emoderators.com/index.shtml
  
  
• Computer Mediated Communication Magazine http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/index.html
  

• Groupware
  http://www.usabilityfirst.com/groupware/
  
  
• The Living Internet
  http://www.livinginternet.com/

Research Studies

• Critical Thinking in a Text-Based Environment: Computer Conferencing in Higher Education
  http://www.atl.ualberta.ca/cmc/
  

• Cognitive Presence in Web-Based Learning: A Content Analysis of Students' Online Discussions
  http://it.coe.uga.edu/itforum/paper60/paper60.htm
  
  
• Online Discussions - Student Perspective at Mount Royal College
  http://www2.mtroyal.ab.ca/~nvaughan/norm/discussionresearch_files/frame.htm