Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 193.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:58:59 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: (short review)_High Wired_: On the Design, and Theory of
Educational MOOs
Greetings scholars,
Hi......you might be interested in --Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune
Holmevik, edited a book "_High Wired_: On the Design, and Theory of
Educational MOOs" --the foreword is written by Sherry Turkle (known as
Margaret Mead of Cyberspace) --published my "The University of Michigan
Press" (1998) The book is an indispensable guide to the technical,
pedagogical, and theoretical aspects of educational MOOs (Multiple-user,
Object Oriented environments). It contains essays by scholars such as, Amy
Bruckman, Cynthia Haynes, Pavel Curtis, Eric Crump, Juli Burk, Beth Kolko,
Jan Rune Holmevik, Michael Joyce; the writers have expressed several
aspects of MOO, its concepts and contexts, How to use and administer MOO,
educational & professional use of MOOs and MOO meditations. It is a
comprehensive treatment of the MOOs, for the benefit of teachers, students
and researchers. This publication can be used as textbook, a reference
book and a handbook. MOOs can be used as online writing centers,
electronic classrooms, netbased collborative environments, and even
complete cyberspace campuses. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BOOK, for the net-based
communities and academia, who are interested in the Internet-based
communities and who are doing research in the net-based collaborative
environments.
The MOO database called High Wired enCore can be found at
(http://lingua.utdallas.edu/encore)
The URL for Lingua MOO is (http://lingua.utdallas.edu/)
Another guide-book for students related to MOOs, (textbook) "MOOniversity: A
Student's Guide to Online Learning Environments" by Cynthia Haynes and
Jan Rune Holmevik can be located on the above website.
Thank you!
Best Regards
Arun Tripathi
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