Last updated on 18-Apr-1997
On Tuesday, 15.4.97, Tzilla Kratter hosted a yom iyun about "On-line hang-outs" at the David Yellin Teachers College.The day started with a video clip about "chat", an internet service that allows simultaneous typed messages to be sent among people all over the world.
We then participated in a hands-on workshop about MOO, which allows participants to not only chat, but also take part in a textual fantasy world at the MOO site. We went to Schmooze U and wandered around the university campus there, viewing ascii art in the art gallery, ordering pizza from a robot waiter, then eating the pizza, playing scrabble and other games in the game room of the student union, and doing other collegiate activities. We also met EFL teachers and students from all over the world. An additional aspect of a MOO site is the possibility of extending the fantasy world by building additional rooms and objects in those rooms.
The participants were given disks with EWAN and AvPlay in order to start MOOing from their homes and schools. These programs can also be easily downloaded from the net.
After a real world lunch break, we saw demonstrations of the Tel Aviv CALL Counselors^Ò Web pages, MATACH^Òs internet magazine (CET-LINKS), and heard about the "Distant Friends" project, which has various internet activities.
Following that, we saw a series of video clips about new graphical on-line hang-outs, including a 3D educational tour of Stonehenge today and in various periods of pre-history.
Before breaking up, we had a short discussion of the pedagogical implications of what we had seen and done during the day. The participants seemed to have a fun, intellectual time and were ready to think about how to use MOO and the other tools in their EFL teaching.
The success of the yom iyun merits repeating it, perhaps in a shorter version, in various places in the country.
There were requests for reading material about MOO sites and suggestions for other MOO sites to visit:
>From the yom iyun:
SchmoozeU telnet://schmooze.hunter.cuny.edu:8888
T.A. CALL http://education.gov.il/tel-aviv/english.htm
MATACH http://www.cet.ac.il/english/cet-linkReading material about MOO:
http://lucien.sims.berkeley.edu/moo.html
http://www.daedalus.com/net/telnet.html
http://arts.uwaterloo.ca/~camoock/mudhelp.htm
http://spot.colorado.edu/~youngerg/netmoo.html
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/Project/VLC
http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/WWW-VL/eduVR-page.html#Educational
http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~mscmcp/
http://pluto.mscc.ac.il/!mscmcp/pubs/mask.htmlThe Hawii Conference site:
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcc-conf/
Suggested MOO sites (suitable for all students and teachers):
DaMoo - telnet://lrc.csun.edu:7777
Hutmoo - telnet://hutmoo.cs.hut.fi:7777
DuMoo - telnet://moo.du.org:8888
Dominions - telnet://radware.net:2000
IPL - telnet://ipl.sils.umich.edu:8888
Forest Moo - telnet://avatar.phy-plant.utoledo.edu:8888Happy MOOing! And hag sameach to everyone.
Jimmy
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