Computer Mediated Communication
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) is any form of communication between two or more individual people who interact and/or influence each other via separate computers through the Internet or a network connection - using social software. CMC concerned with how people communicate using computers.
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Social software
Social software lets people rendezvous, connect or collaborate by use of a computer network. The term came into more common usage in 2002, largely credited to Clay Shirky who organized a "Social Software Summit" in November of that year.
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Wikipedia
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Computer Mediated Communication and Social Software Workshops
Description
Faculty, a reference librarian, instructional technologists, and students from Allegheny College and Juniata College came together for two days of workshops on tools to facilitate commumication and writing in educational settings.
The first day of the workshop focused on computer mediated communication where participants considered design of communicative tasks, invested web-based communication tools like Chat Circles and online discussion boards, and discussed variable that effect online communication.
The second day of the workshop focused on wikis, blogs and related technologies that allow two or more individuals collaborate across a network.
Participants
Allegheny College
- Helen McCullough - Instructional Technologist - hmccull@allegheny.edu
- Eric Palmer - Professor (Philosophy and Religious Studies) - epalmer@allehgeny.edu
- Susan Fenton - Instructional Technologist - sfenton@allegheny.edu
- Karen Stone - Director, Office of Educational Technology - kstone@allegheny.edu
- Jodi Millin - Special Projects Manager - jmillin@allegheny.edu
- Cynthia Burton - Reference Librarian - cburton@allegheny.edu
Juniata College
- Sarah Worley - Instructor (Communications) - worley@juniata.edu
Center For Educational Technology
- Sarah Lohnes - Facilitator
Workshop Wikis