************************************************************** Please come to Netoric's Tuesday Cafe Discussion for February 7, 1995 8:00 p.m. EST in Netoric's Tuesday Cafe on MediaMOO Topic: New Environments, New Metaphors, New Pedagogies (Part 1) To join us: Telnet to MediaMOO at purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888 connect guest OR connect your character if you have one @go Tuesday OR @join Tari or @join GregS If you're new to Netoric and/or MOOing, Netoric's Information and MOOhelpsheet is available on the Netoric gopher site: gopher daedalus.com Select "Alliance for Computers and Writing" Then select "NETORIC" Finally, select Netoric.guide, and use the help selections for your gopher client to find out how to e-mail the guide (helpsheet) to yourself. If you have trouble getting the helpsheet, just write to Tari or Greg--addresses below--and we'll e-mail it to you. ************************************************************** The January issue of _Computer Mediated Communication Magazine_ contains several articles by Netoric regulars, addressing several topics that other Netoric participants have asked to discuss at Tuesday Cafes this term. This week, we'd like to begin discussing some of those topics, using the various _CMC_ articles as starting points for the discussion. We'll begin with the article "MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies," which you can read on the web at: http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1995/jan/fanderclai.html That article discusses the problems of thinking of educational MUDs in terms of traditional education and employing traditional pedagogical methods to incorporate MUDs into the classroom, thereby negating the unique learning experiences MUDs can offer. Of course, we hope this discussion can be extended to other internet resources we might use in our classes. If you don't have web access, write to Tari, address below, to have the article e-mailed to you. (Oh, and by all means show up even if you don't have time to read the article--this discussion is certainly bigger than just one article!) See you Tuesday! * * * N E T O R I C * * * Tuesday Cafe -- Electronic Conferences -- CMC Workshops --------------------------------------------------------------- | Tari Fanderclai | Greg Siering | | Somewhere in Boston | Ball State University | | tari@ucet.ufl.edu | 00gjsiering@bsuvc.bsu.edu | ---------------------------------------------------------------