Technical Difficulties and Chats

The following is another discussion between two students working on their first group projects.  This freshman-level coure had a number of students who demonstrated a basic proficience with internet usage and with computers in general, but who had not had much experience using chats, for example, or even submitting papers electronically.  As a result, a good deal of chat time was spent figuring out the mechanics of the program, which was often very slow to load.  Frequently when a student attempted to pull up a web page in the browser space provided with the chat room, that would crash the chat program entirely for students working at home on older, slow machines.  To compensate for problems like this, and for the general uncertainty that was a part of our couse until well into the semester, I frequently extended deadlines.

Archive for WOSTJ111-000-FALL-2000 on Oct 2, 2000
Michelle CRAIG has entered. [ 10:41:08 PM ]
Michelle CRAIG > hello
Michelle CRAIG > is anyone else here?
ELIZABETH CLINARD has entered. [ 10:43:53 PM ]
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i am here
ELIZABETH CLINARD > it took me some time to figure this out
Michelle CRAIG > hi
Michelle CRAIG > yeah me too
Michelle CRAIG > I wasn't really sure how this worked
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i went into the virtual classroom at first and was there for a few minutes before i started looking around
ELIZABETH CLINARD > is there anyone else on here
Michelle CRAIG > i don't think so
ELIZABETH CLINARD > it's hard to do group projects over the internet with people having such different schedules
Michelle CRAIG > yeah it is
ELIZABETH CLINARD > what do you think that we should do
Michelle CRAIG > at least we do have something like this to help us
ELIZABETH CLINARD > hopefully everyone else will figure out how to use it
Michelle CRAIG > were you able to pull up the brillo site?
Michelle CRAIG > i hope so
ELIZABETH CLINARD > no i wasn't
Michelle CRAIG > ok
Michelle CRAIG > i found that site the other day and it had images that delt with women
Michelle CRAIG > like a sweethearts box with a different name
Michelle CRAIG > have you heard of Rosie the Riverter?
ELIZABETH CLINARD > no i haven't
ELIZABETH CLINARD > do you think that site would be a good one to use
Michelle CRAIG > about Roise, she's a woman that was used during WWII to show that women coud go out and fight like men
Michelle CRAIG > let me give you the website and let you look and see what you think of it
Michelle CRAIG > hold on a sec and let me get it
ELIZABETH CLINARD > ok
Michelle CRAIG > do you have any ideas?
ELIZABETH CLINARD > not really
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i am not really sure where to even begin
Michelle CRAIG > i'm having trouble finding that paper with the address on it
ELIZABETH CLINARD > that's ok i am doing laundry and studying for an exam that i have tomorrow
Michelle CRAIG > i'm still looking..
Michelle CRAIG > did you see the extension that we get? until Sun.?
ELIZABETH CLINARD > yes and i am glad because it doesn't seem like a whole lot of people are responding
Michelle CRAIG > me too
Michelle CRAIG > i'm doign the search over to find that site
Michelle CRAIG > it will be a few
ELIZABETH CLINARD > that's fine
Michelle CRAIG > oik, I found something that I was talking about
Michelle CRAIG > the site is http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/women.html
ELIZABETH CLINARD > ok
Michelle CRAIG > see if you can pull it up
Michelle CRAIG > and the one I was talking about is the last one that says "We can do it"
Michelle CRAIG > i'm going to try somethign so bear with me a sec
Michelle CRAIG browsed to http://www.about.com/
Michelle CRAIG > is ther anything on your screen?
Michelle CRAIG browsed to http://home.about.com/arts/index.htm?PM=59_0201_T
Michelle CRAIG browsed to http://womenshistory.about.com/arts/womenshistory/mbody.htm
Michelle CRAIG browsed to http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/lives/index.htm
Michelle CRAIG browsed to http://www.nara.gov/exhall/powers/women.html
Michelle CRAIG > hello
Michelle CRAIG > i don't know what's on your screen, but I tried to pull up the site that i gave you
Michelle CRAIG > is it on your screen?
ELIZABETH CLINARD has left. [ 11:28:18 PM ]
ELIZABETH CLINARD has entered. [ 11:34:02 PM ]
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i could not pull up the website, but the powers of persuasion is on my screen
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i hate to do this, but i need to get off the internet because i need to finish studying
ELIZABETH CLINARD > maybe we could try to set something up for tomorrow night
Michelle CRAIG > I know i can't wednesday or it wil be hard at least
Michelle CRAIG > so is It's a women's war on your screen now?
ELIZABETH CLINARD > yes it is
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i will save it so that i can take a look at it tomorrow
Michelle CRAIG > ok
ELIZABETH CLINARD > i will e-mail you tomorrow when i get out of class and let you know what i think
Michelle CRAIG > ok
ELIZABETH CLINARD > it will be around 12:30
ELIZABETH CLINARD > talk to you later
Michelle CRAIG > if you think of another idea let me know
Michelle CRAIG > ok
Michelle CRAIG > bye
ELIZABETH CLINARD has left. [ 11:44:09 PM ]