Behind the Scenes         Head to Head        Postmodern Riff           

Students are concerned with the differences of interaction among virtual and physical bodies. This binary surfaced both in terms of using the MOO and using the wiki for group work. Once again the issues here are related to how technology changes our interface with education and with each other. At first, students may feel that virtual meetings are either merely neat, “I thought it was really cool and innovative that we could be in a ‘classroom’ while not physically in one,” or feel that it is counter productive, “I think [the wiki] allowed us to more easily avoid actual contact with one another. I think we would have performed better as a group if we were creating a paper in a more conventional way,” or “I didn’t like not talking at first.”