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- Week 9
- LBSC 690
- Information Technology
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- Questions
- Computer mediated communications
- Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
- Educational computing
- Project presentations
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- CMC refers to human communication via computers--including computer
network communication on the Internet and the World Wide Web. People
interested in CMC study a range of phenomena--from the dynamics of g=
roup
communication in Usenet news articles to how people use hypertext to
shape meaning.
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- How many participants?
- When?
- Synchronous or asynchronous
- Where?
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- Email: centralized storage
- Usenet: distributed storage
- Hierarchical organization
- comp.edu.languages.natural
- Archive: groups.google.com
- Analysis: research.microsoft.com/~masmith/
- Threaded discussion lists
- Example: http://discus.hope.edu/f05
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- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Chat Rooms
- Whole lines are sent at a time
- e.g., chat.yahoo.com
- NetMeeting
- IM+audio+video+whiteboard+shared applications
- MSN Messenger now includes these capabilities
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- Unplanned interactions
- Informal communication
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- Meeting support systems
- Brainstorming
- Online review
- Annotated minutes
- Example
- Teaching theater student tools
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- Work
- Grounded in the study of work processes
- Cooperative
- Assumes a shared objective, task
- Technology-supported
- Computers are just one type of tools used
- “Groupware”
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- Shared information space
- Group awareness
- Coordination
- Concurrency control
- Multi-user interfaces
- Heterogeneous environments
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- Required functions
- System architecture
- Adoption
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- Face to face meetings
- Teleconferences
- Shared workspace on WAM
- IM-synchronized work sessions
- NetMeeting?
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- Computer Assisted Education
- What most people think of first
- Computer Managed Instruction
- What most people really do first!
- Computer Mediated Communication
- All that CSCW stuff applied to education
- Computer-Based Multimedia
- Just another filmstrip machine?
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- Pedagogic
- Vocational
- Computer programming is a skill like typing
- Social
- Computers are a part of the fabric of society
- Catalytic
- Computers are symbols of progress
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- Most prerequisites are not computer-specific
- Need, know-how, time, commitment, leadership, incentives, expectati=
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- The most important barrier is time
- Teacher time is by far the most important factor
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- Facilities
- Computer classrooms (e.g., teaching theaters)
- Computers IN classrooms (e.g., HBK 2119)
- Objectives
- “Computer Literacy”
- Not so in the Maryland teaching theaters
- Comparatively few technology classes
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- What are the most salient characteristics
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- Correspondence courses
- Focus on dissemination and evaluation
- Instructional television
- Dissemination, interaction, and evaluation
- Computer-Assisted Instruction
- Same three functions w/ubiquitous technology
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