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Behrens, Matthis – 1996
This report summarizes 2 years of activity within the Edutex network. Launched in 1990, the Edutex initiative aimed to explore the educational possibilities and limitations of a telematic network for schools. Teachers and pupils in 20 primary and secondary classrooms in the French, Italian, and German speaking parts of Switzerland and in France…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail

Shelley, Janine Onffroy – Learning Languages, 1996
Presents examples of how computer-mediated communication (CMC) affects language learning, describing a successful CMC project involving a Minnesota middle school and a school in France. Students exchanged electronic mail over two years and eventually produced a student-written, bilingual, multicultural play. Though students differed in age and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Awareness