This booklet is intended to provide parents with some critical information to help monitor and control their child's behavior on the Internet. Highlights include: the need for ground rules; how to gain knowledge about the Internet; what the Internet is; the World Wide Web; Internet Relay Chat (IRC); Usenet groups and e-mail; some red flags;…

The Cambridge (Ohio) City Schools have started an e-mail program that provides opportunities for correspondence and for developing social writing skills, while placing the responsibility for success and appropriate behavior on the students. Discusses successes, problems encountered, and future plans. (PEN)

Finds that electronic mail messages with socioemotional content were generally avoided in downward and diagonal communication but were more commonly sent by nonmanagers and younger people, who were less often involved in decision making. Shows that socioemotion use was positively related to perceived quality of work. (SR)

Adult students (n=48) were enrolled in either an audiographics course requiring electronic mail use or one in which it was optional. Analysis of messages and interviews identified personal, institutional, and technical barriers to computer-mediated communication (CMC); benefits; moderator's role; accommodations for learning styles; and the value…

Describes the Internet and possible educational issues for its information retrieval and electronic communication functions, particularly applied to secondary content area instruction. Concludes that, while the potential benefits are considerable, its use is costly in terms of time, training, and money. Offers recommendations for classroom use and…

This supplement contains 10 articles on topics that include acceptable-use policies, NetDay, selling technology bonds, a CD-ROM starter shelf, and Internet news. (MLF)

Discusses three types of synchronous writing environments, each offering teachers and students a vehicle for using electronic text to promote literacy-based learning communities: classroom collaboration, networked notetaking, and virtual communities. (SR)

Presents the development of a five-month on-line collaboration between Jenny Davis, a published writer, and eight junior high school girls at a Covington, Kentucky school. Describes the process of establishing rapport between author and students as she helped them with their writing. Provides excerpts of e-mail exchanges between the participants,…

Argues for a reexamination of current conceptions of computer literacy as well as an extension of approaches to critical- thinking instruction to include questions about technology. Considers a theoretical framework for understanding the impact of computers, uses it to examine electronic mail and the World Wide Web, and offers an expanded…

Examines how college students working across distances used e-mail and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to facilitate their collaboration and decision-making processes. Finds that students came to a decision more quickly using e-mail than with IRC, and when IRC was slow, students reverted to a series of rapid-fire e-mail messages. (RS)

Business education leaders (n=128) received e-mail surveys; 34 returned them via e-mail, 13 by postal mail, 12 were blank and unusable; another group of 128 received mailed surveys with 73 returned. E-mail response took an average of 12.5 days, postal response 24.2 days. E-mail respondents completed 20.9 of 35 questions, the postal group 19.4 of…

Describes the ways in which cultural factors shape interaction and perceptions in distance education and suggests implications for librarians and other information professionals. Reports an informal analysis of discourse in four university classes that examined text in journal assignments and email communications and considers community and…

Describes a study conducted at a university in Taiwan that explored the effectiveness of electronic mail as a supplementary aid to instruction and as a communication link between students and between students and instructors in fostering interpersonal relationships. Examines student attitudes toward the instructor, group-mates, and other…

Describes the information available about special interest groups (SIGs) on the CompuServe system and offers suggestions for searching this online utility. Search strategies and system commands are described for getting a list of every SIG in the system, accessing message boards, teleconferencing, searching data libraries, and locating specific…

Explores the effects of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and face-to-face (FTF) media on group performance of college students. Finds that CMC groups generated a greater number of unique ideas than FTF groups but that CMC groups took longer to reach consensus than FTF groups. Discusses implications and recommendations for media combination…