Observations and Recommendations for Using Technology to Extend Interaction


Allan Knight and Kevin Almeroth   Rich Mayer            Dorothy Chun
Dept of Computer Science          Dept of Psychology    Germanic Studies
Univ of California                Univ of California    Univ of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106           Santa Barbara, CA     Santa Barbara, CA
{aknight, almeroth}@cs.ucsb.edu   mayer@psych.ucsb.edu  chun@gss.ucsb.edu


Technology-facilitated collaboration is extending the ways in 
which students and instructors interact within and beyond the 
classroom.  Our paper describes how we effectively used Personal 
Response Systems (PRS), lecture slides, video archives, instant 
messaging, and course management software to extend interaction 
in a junior-level Computer Science course.  Besides this 
description, we provide our observations and recommendations to 
help others who wish to use similar technologies to extend 
interaction within their classrooms.