PennMOO for English 88

Alan Filreis

Main www page for PennMOO in English at Penn. Click here for a direct connection to PennMOO.

English 88 was the first large-ish course at Penn to conduct course-related discussions, and to hold office hours, in a MOO.
Information about our the 88 VIRTUAL POETRY SLAM and samples of what was created there.
Questions about PennMOO? Contact "pennmoo@english.upenn.edu".
Stats on use of PennMOO (11/95).
Memo on concepts for making PennMOO a space in which to build "Penn as it should be" rather than reflecting Penn as it is.
- Note on an easy way to connect to PennMOO via tinyfugue
- Introduction to PennMOO for English 88--Instructions and Advice
- Another, more general, description of MOO
- Glossary of MOO commands and terms
- Questions about MOO for 88? Send a message to Susan Garfinkel by clicking here.
- First English 88 PennMOO session in Penniman Library - complete with positions
- English 88 Virtual Poetry Slam
- How to moderate discussion in MOO - PennMOO's Chestnut Room
- Creating the ideal academic community (an exchange from English 103, The Literature of Community)
- Mark Poster, "Techno-communities." Review of Steven Jones, ed., Cybersociety: Computer-mediated Communication and Community. New York: Sage, 1995.
- Joe Farrell has attempted some modest but interesting things when teaching in PennMOO.
- "MUDs in Education: New Environments, New Pedagogies" - by Tari Fanderclai (article in CMC Magazine)
- A MOO Miscellany - essays such as John Unsworth's, "Living Inside the (Operation) System: Community in Virtual Reality" and stories such as Julian Dibbell's, "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil CLown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society"
- An experimental MOO, combining MOO and hypertext features
- Postmodern Culture MOO archive (via gopher)
- Jim O'Donnell's famous "Teachdemo" describes all sorts of innovations in teaching, including in MOO
- Quality of MOOspace - discussion partly in verse (4/95)
- Mac program picks words randomly (August 1995)
- Virtual Antiquity: MiamiMOO is inaugurated (7/95)
- A dissertation defense in MOO (7/95)
- LINGUA MOO is a text-based virtual academic community at The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, Texas. Its purpose is to serve as a platform for the academic pursuits of students and faculty at that institition, and is not open to the general public. One of the exciting new projects that the administrators of Lingua are working on right now is WOO. This is, in outline, an attempt to integrate the MOO with the World Wide Web. If you want to find out more about this point your www browser to http://mohawk.utdallas.edu:7000. All registered players can now have their photo show up under their name. Click on Jan or Cynthia in the Who is Online option to see an example of this. (You need either Mosaic or Netscape to actually see the photos).
- Animated on-line "chat" - experimental (3/95)
- Education Technology: Educational VR (MUD) Page
- "Woo" (web + moo)
- More on MOO, including direct connections to some famous MOOs
- Diversity University Virtual Reality Education Journal
- Poetry-related stuff in PMC MOO (3/95)
- A moo at the University of Florida hosts up to 75 english classes
- http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/interact.html
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/edu-comp/DUJVRE/vol1/no1/education_MOOs.text
- http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/siering/moo.html
- MOO TEACHER'S TIP SHEET - an excellent site
- http://www.itp.berkeley.e du/~thorne/MOO.html
- http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/mmm/mmm.html
- http://www.scs.unr.edu/homepage/kristina/language.muds.html
- http://babel.uoregon.ed u/yamada/interact.html
  
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