NECTAR News

CSCW Course at Calgary

October 27th, 2005

Saul Greenberg.

A graduate course on Computer Supported Cooperative Work at Calgary (and a parallel one at University of Toronto) is now in progress. Almost all presentations are available to nectar members as:

webcast and archived lectures via epresence

key readings describing intellectual foundations.

presentation deck provided by students.

Both Calgary and U Toronto offers two different (but overlapping) introductions to CSCW. At this point in time, the topics in Calgary have or will cover the following material (other items will be added later):

CSCW - An Introduction

Conversation: Behavioral Foundations

Video-Mediated Communication

Thinking about Groups and Organizations

The SDG Toolkit

Casual Interaction: Behavioral Foundations

Casual Interaction: Media Spaces

Shared Workspaces: Behavioural Foundations

.Networking and the Collabrary

Bulding Media Items in the Community Bar

Shared Workspaces: Awareness

Shared Workspaces: Tabletops and Large Displays

Asynchronous use of Large Displays

Shared Screens and Windows

Blogs

For more information

• Key Readings contain 2-3 essential readings and 1-3 optional readings for each topic, as well as pointers to the powerpoint slide deck used in the epresence lectures
• EPresence lectures are located in the Calgary folder at this web site.
• Contact Saul Greenberg, saul.greenberg at ucalgary.ca

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