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**************************************************************** The Netoric Project Presents: Professional and Educational MUDding ------------------------------------ A Virtual Open House -------------------- Tuesday, September 27, 1994 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. EDT in The Netoric Complex on MediaMOO Attend this event from your home, office, computer lab, or anywhere else you can telnet from. Come when you can; stay as long as you wish. An easy helpsheet for new MOOers appears at the end of this invitation. It provides directions for connecting to MediaMOO, getting to the Netoric Complex, and communicating and exploring once you get there. And once you're connected, guides will be ready to assist you. So what's this all about? Well, for over a year now, many of us who use computers in the teaching of writing have been using MUDs-- Multi-User Dimensions--internet sites that allow people to telnet in and communicate with others in real time--to hold professional conference sessions, to meet and collaborate with geographically distant colleagues, and to expand our classrooms beyond our own campuses by allowing our students to meet and collaborate with students from other schools. We want our colleagues and our administrators to see why these virtual spaces are so valuable to us and to our students. And we hope to demonstrate the value of investing time and technology in the development and implementation of these environments. At our open house, you'll find out about professional MUDs, educational MUDs, and various uses we've been making of them. So please join us for any or all of the following events. Ongoing Events: -------------- Sign-in: Netoric Headquarters ------------------------------ We'd like all of our guests to stop in the Netoric Headquarters first and sign our guest list; a guide will be available there to show you how to sign in, answer any questions you have, and help you get where you want to go. Introductory Slide Show: NHQ Media Center and Library ----------------------------------------------------- This very brief slide show will give you some background information on MUDs and their importance to the computers and writing community. The Media Center will be staffed all day long, and you can go there and ask to see the slide show any time during the event. Virtual Poster Sessions: Netoric's Conference Rooms ---------------------------------------------------- There will be several virtual poster sessions continuing throughout the entire event. The presenters of these posters will take turns being on hand in the various rooms to help you view the posters and to talk with you about the projects the posters describe. Poster Session 1: Professional Uses of MUDs ------------------------------------------- Members of the Computers and Writing Community who have used MUDs for professional development and projects present posters describing their projects and the benefits to the professional community. Location: Alexandria Conference Room Tari Fanderclai and Greg Siering: The Netoric Project Eric Crump: CW94 Conference Sessions Michael Day: How Professionals Use MUDs for Everyday Work Poster Session 2: Educational Uses of MUDs ------------------------------------------- Writing teachers who have used MUDs with their writing students present posters describing their projects and the benefits to their students. Location: Rome Conference Room Tari Fanderclai: What Students Learn from MUDding Leslie Harris and Cindy Wambeam: A MUD Collaboration Poster Session 3: Information about Professional and Educational MUDs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Administrators of many MUDs that host professional activities and/or classes present posters explaining what their MUDs are for, how to get to them, and who to contact for further information. Location: Athens Conference Room Latt Epstein: ChibaMOO--The Sprawl and The World Ken Scweller: CollegeTown MOO Locke Carter: Daedalus MOO Tom Meyer: HyperHotel MOO and WAXweb MOO Amy Bruckman: MediaMOO Julie Falsetti: SchMOOze Marcia Bednarcyk: WriteMUSH Special Sessions: ---------------- All special sessions will be held in the Tuesday Cafe and will involve brief presentations followed by discussions. 4:50-5:20 p.m. EDT What If We Want Our Own MUD? Ask the Wizards --------------------------------------------- Ken Schweller of CollegeTown MOO and Locke Carter of Daedalus MOO will answer your questions about what it really takes to set up and maintain your own MUD--time, money, equipment, and so on--whatever you want to know! 5:30-6:00 p.m. EDT MUDs for Professional Researchers: The MediaMOO Project ------------------------------------------------------- Amy Bruckman, Archjanitor of MediaMOO and researcher of professional and educational uses of MUDs, will talk about her vision in creating MediaMOO and how she has seen MediaMOO benefit professional media researchers. 6:15-6:45 p.m. EDT: Tutoring Writing Students Online -------------------------------- Jennifer Jordan-Henly and Barry Maid will describe the Writing Centers they have created on Daedalus and Collegetown MOOs and how they are connecting undergraduate and graduate students for writing consultations at these sites. 7:00-7:30 p.m. EDT: ESL Students on MUDs -------------------- Lonnie Turnbee of SchMOOze, a MOO for ESL students, will discuss ways of using MUDs with ESL classes and the benefits to the students. 7:45-8:15 p.m. EDT: Professional Conference Sessions on MUDs ---------------------------------------- Eric Crump, Chair of the Tenth Annual Computers and Writing Conference, will tell how the boundaries of that conference were expanded by supplementing the live event with MUD sessions. 8:30-9:00 p.m. EDT Faculty Collaboration for Teaching and Scholarship -------------------------------------------------- Michael Day and Judith Kirkpatrick will discuss one of the most important functions of MUDs: that of providing professionals with a place to meet and work with new colleagues and collaborators from distant places. 9:00-9:30 p.m. EDT MUDs as Learning Environments: New Experiences; New Pedagogies -------------------------------------------------------------- Tari Fanderclai, who has been using MUDs in her writing classes for several terms, will discuss the kinds of learning experiences MUDs are and are not suited for, and the benefits MUDding has had for her students. 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. EDT: MUDs in Distance Education: An Online University ------------------------------------------------ Robert Donelly, President, Bill Painter, Executive Director, and other administrators of Virtual Online University, a soon-to-be accredited nonprofit educational institution operating entirely online, will describe their university and explain the possibilities their MUD, called a VEE (Virtual Educational Environment), offers its students and teachers. **************************************************************** Help for Our Open House Guests ------------------------------ Connecting to MediaMOO: ---------------------- To get to MediaMOO, telnet to either of these addresses: purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888 OR 18.85.0.48 8888 Ask locally (try your HelpDesk or equivalent) if you don't know how to telnet on your system. After entering the address, you'll get a screen that says "Welcome to MediaMOO." There, enter: connect guest You'll be told what guest character you've connected to (Guest or Some-Color_Guest), and you'll find yourself in the LEGO Closet. (If instead of the MediaMOO welcome screen, you get stuck at "SunOS UNIX (microworld)" followed by "login:," either you forgot to enter the port number--the 8888--or you need to ask locally to find out how to enter the port number so that your system will use it.) Getting to the Netoric Open House: --------------------------------- Once connected to MediaMOO (in other words, in the LEGO closet), enter this command: @go netoric That will take you to the Netoric Headquarters, where there'll be people ready to assist you. When you get to the Netoric Headquarters, you can enter this to let our helpful people know that you'll need some help: "Hello--I'm new at MOOing and I'm here for the Open House. Of course, you can phrase that however you want--just be sure to begin with the " and what you say will be heard. Here are some other MOO commands that might help you as you explore: Moving Around in MediaMOO: ------------------------- If you know the name of the room you want to go to, enter: @go <name of place> Example: @go Netoric Headquarters Many rooms have lists of "obvious exits" followed by names of rooms they lead to. You can walk to those rooms by entering the names of the exits. For example, in the Netoric Headquarters, you can enter <down> to go to the NHQ Media Center and Library; <up> to go to the Tuesday Cafe, <west> to go to the Alexandria Conference Room; etc. Communicating with Other Characters: ----------------------------------- When you see another character, you can talk to him/her by typing a <"> followed by what you want to say; for example: "Hello. I'm new here and need some help. When you enter such a line, the other characters in the room with you will see your character's name, followed by what you say. To show action, type a <:> and then the verb phrase for what you want to do, like this: :smiles and waves. When you enter such a line, the other characters in the room will see your character's name, followed by the action you are performing. You can page or whisper to another character, and only the character you page or whisper to will see your message. You can whisper to a character only if s/he is in the same room as you; you can page any character who is connected, no matter where in the MOO s/he is. To page a character, enter: page <character's name> <message> Example: page Tari Help--I'm stuck in the LEGO Closet! To whisper to a character, enter: mu <character's name> <message> Example: mu GregS Whew, I finally got out of that Closet! Looking at Characters, Rooms, and Objects: ----------------------------------------- To see the self-description of a character in the room with you, enter: exam <character's name> Example: exam GregS To review the description of a room you're in, enter: look If in the room you're in you see an object you want to examine, enter this: exam <name of object> Example: exam NetoricSlides On-Line Help in MediaMOO: ------------------------ To get general help while in MediaMOO, enter: help To get help with a specific command, enter: help <command name> Example: help page If the response to "help <command name>" is "no help is available," try a different word, or ask another character which word to use to get the help screen you need. Leaving MediaMOO: ---------------- To disconnect from MediaMOO, enter: @quit Notes on Interface Problems While in MediaMOO: --------------------------------------------- If your screen scrolls too fast or lines don't wrap or extend off your screen, enter these commands while connected to MediaMOO to find some possible solutions: help @pagelength help @wrap help @linelength If following the instructions on those help screens doesn't help, you'll need to ask locally for help with your individual terminal settings. Also, you can enter "help clients" to find out about programs that make using MUDs much easier. **************************************************************** _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ A Virtual Community of Scholars in Computers and Composition -- * -- Tari Fanderclai <tlfand01@homer.louisville.edu> Greg Siering <00gjsiering@bsuvc.bsu.edu>
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