The MediaMOO Project Constructionism and Professional Community
| Person A: Can you tell me how to get to Ballroom A? | |
| Person B: I'm headed that way now. It's up this way. | |
| Person A: Thanks! | |
| Person B: I see you're at Company X. . . . | |
| Person C: Is this seat taken? | |
| Person D: No, it isn't. | |
| Person C: I'm surprised the room is so packed. | |
| Person D: Well, Y is a really good speaker. . . . |
A text-based virtual environment can provide both a shared place (the virtual world) and a shared set of activities (exploring and extending the virtual world). As at a conference coffee break, there is a social convention that it is appropriate to strike up a conversation with strangers simply based on their name tags. On
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Publication information:
Book title: Constructionism in Practice:Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World.
Contributors: Yasmin Kafai - Editor, Mitchel Resnick - Editor.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ.
Publication year: 1996.
Page number: 207.
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