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Instruction On The Web: Getting All Librarians Involved, Cynthia Wright Swaine
Instruction On The Web: Getting All Librarians Involved, Cynthia Wright Swaine
Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
The Collection Development Council at Old Dominion University (Virginia) decided to involve all subject specialist librarians in creating guides to web resources in the disciplines for which they serve as bibliographers. The project was intended to help librarians become familiar with Internet resources in their fields of expertise and give them experience with World Wide Web searching. A worksheet for bibliographers and a sample guide were provided. Librarians were asked to complete a worksheet for one of their assigned areas of collection development in the next year. A separate Web Team would enter the guides, using HTML and mounting them …
Co-Opertition: Competitive Communication Behavior During A Cooperative Task, Daniel M. Hlavac
Co-Opertition: Competitive Communication Behavior During A Cooperative Task, Daniel M. Hlavac
Masters Theses
A combined effort of two classes at separate universities was examined. Each class boasted six groups which were paired with another group at the other university. These teams used computer mediated communication to engage in a cooperative task. The communications between groups were analyzed using conversational analytic techniques to reveal a competitive communication pattern. The results show that a lack of communication can produce competitive behaviors even in situations intended to nurture cooperation. Future concerns should focus on teaching groups to use computer mediated communication (CMC) to its fullest potential by recognizing and accounting for the critical differences between CMC …