Resources

http://www.blackboard.com A free service for course supplementation or web hosting of a course. For a fee, an intructor can arrange to charge for the online course.

http://www.egroups.com A free group communication site with list server, chat, and other functions

http://www.eslcafe.com Provides ESL activities, email exchange and links for teachers to use in building web sites

http://www.thepalace.com A two-dimensional, avatar-based chat environment; user can create groupware tools

http://www.activeworlds.com  A three-dimensional moving avatar based environment

Examples of student work in the Technical Writing class used for this project

http://www.jillrobbins.com

Brooks, J.G. & Brooks, M.G. (1993). In Search of Understanding: The case for constructivist classrooms. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

Brown, H.D. (2000) Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.

Chamot, Barnhardt, El-Dinary & Robbins (1999). The Learning Strategies Handbook. White Plains, NY: Addison Wesley Longman.

Daniels, P. and D. Brooks. (1999). Free net resources for globalizing classroom relationships. In Lewis, P. (Ed.) Teachers, Learners and Computers: Exploring Relationships in CALL. Nagoya, Japan: The Japan Association for Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Language Learning National Special Interest Group.

Davies, L. (1999). MOO Project Comments by Students. Retrieved March 3, 2000 from the World Wide Web:http://www.ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp/~davies/

Creed, T. (1996). Extending the classroom walls electronically. In New Paradigms for College Teaching, Campbell W. & C. Smith, (Eds.) Edina, MN; Interaction Book Co. Retrieved March 3, 2000 from the World Wide Web: (in an adapted form) at http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~tcreed/techno3.html

Egbert, J. and E. Hanson-Smith. (1999). CALL Environments: Research, Practice, and Critical Issues. Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

Hansen, E.L. (2000) Comments on the use of Blackboard.com. Retrieved March 3, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://company.blackboard.com/Bb/features.html

Pea, R.D. (1996). Seeing what we build together; Distributed multimedia learning environments for transformative communications. In Koschmann T. (Ed.) CSCL: Theory and practice of an emerging paradigm. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Rachel's Super MOO List: Foreign Language (ESL) MOOs Retrieved March 3, 2000 from the World Wide Web: :http://cinemaspace.berkeley.edu/~rachel/moolist/esl.html

Rheingold, H. (1998). The Virtual CommunityRetrieved March 26, 2000 from the World Wide Web: http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/

Rule, S. H. (2000). Choosing appropriate groupware for learner collaboration. In Lewis, P. (Ed). Calling Asia Conference Proceedings. Nagoya, Japan: The Japan Association for Language Teaching, Computer Assisted Language Learning National Special Interest Group.

Sandholtz, J.H., C. Ringstaff & Dwyer, D. (1999)  Teaching with Technology: Creating Student-Centered Classrooms New York: Teachers College Press.

Susser, B. (1993). Networks and project work: Alternative pedagogies for writing with computers. Computers and Composition 10 (3) August 1993.