Discusses a variety of careers that are related to the Internet: webmaster, web developer, systems administrator, programmer/software developer, customer service representative, and other occupations. Provides a primer on the Internet and a guide to Internet terminology. (JOW)

Presents results of experimental tests of Dynamic Social Impact Theory (DSIT) in which participants engaged in discussions over electronic mail. Finds support for the emergence of four group phenomena predicted by DSIT. Shows how, rewarded for being in the majority, individuals' choices resulted in the emergence of four forms of group level…

Discusses the push to incorporate technology into the foreign language curriculum.. Provides a holistic view of electronic massaging boards vis-a-vis other forms of computer-mediated communication. Student reaction to the use of an electronic message board is considered as are recommendations for its use in the second and foreign language…

Explores the combination of on-line chat rooms with regular classroom interactions in a personalized English program and its potentials to enhance second language development. Suggests that the face-to-face interactions may have highlighted the participants' language problems and enhanced their awareness of such problems, whereas the on-line…

Examines how computer-mediated communication partners (undergraduate students) exchange personal information in initial interactions, focusing on the effects of communication channels on self-disclosure, question-asking, and uncertainty reduction. Illuminates some microstructures previously asserted but unverified within social information…

Focuses on the dynamics of interracial electronic communication. Examines the misunderstandings that arose in this interracial discussion, situating the causes and consequences of the students' discourse within both the local context of the electronic forum and within wider cultural patterns. Suggests strategies for facilitating more productive…

Describes Remote and Adaptive Educational Environment (RAPSODY-EX), a learning support environment for collaborative distance learning. Discusses components of collaborative learning and the computer infrastructure supporting access to information for leaner decision making. (Contains 23 references.) (SK)

Communities of practice (COPs) are effective environments for improving physicians' learning and practice. Continuing education providers can meet the learning needs of multidisciplinary COPs with the assistance of information/communications technologies that enhance physicians' information-seeking behavior. (Contains 26 references.) (SK)

Discusses the movement of the World Wide Web from the first generation to the second, called the Semantic Web. Provides an overview of ontology, a philosophical theory about the nature of existence being applied to artificial intelligence that will have a crucial role in enabling content-based access, interoperability, and communication across the…

Discussion of Web-based distance education focuses on communication issues. Highlights include Internet communications; components of a Web site, including site architecture, user interface, information delivery method, and mode of feedback; elements of Web design, including conceptual design, sensory design, and reactive design; and a Web…

This paper presents the theoretical background for using computer-mediated communication to link children and scientists in a multiple electronic zone of proximal development. It is postulated that students will be able to perform at higher cognitive levels as a result of this increased interment contact with many adults. (LZ)

Offers an overview of various online writing labs across the United States, showing how many writing centers are now making use of e-mail, MOOs (Multi-User Object Oriented environments), Gopher, and the World Wide Web to provide writing assistance to writers around the globe. Provides a list of e-mail addresses, gopher sites, and Web pages. (SR)

Asks collaborators to be sensitive to the role that physical space plays in creative human endeavors, and to consider the impact on work accomplished in merged electronic and physical work environments. Considers how to build the collaborative university to preserve the pleasures of physical space and to leverage the efficiencies of…

Presents a postmodern discussion of the playful recreation of Chinese New Year "cards" by Chinese students using the Internet. Signifies the increasingly popular practice of incorporating festive symbols from other cultures into electronic greetings. Notes that users must often install Chinese-language software before these encoded texts…

Discusses the use of computer-based telecommunications through the Internet and commercial online services to bring immediacy and individualization to the school curriculum. Topics include integrating telecommunications into the curriculum, basic Internet tools, e-mail, the World Wide Web, and resources on the Internet for curriculum planning.…