For each interactive activity, you may email your responses to your instructor or to yourself. Or, you may answer the questions and then print your responses when they are displayed on the screen. If you choose to print your response, then leave the spaces below blank.

Your Name:
Your Email:
Your Instructor's Name:
Your Instructor's Email:

1. Subscribe to a mailing list on a topic of your choosing. Check out lists on search engines provided by google at http://groups.google.com/ or yahoo at http://groups.yahoo.com/ to find a group that interests you. Or try www.coollist.com for a user-friendly menu of mailing list topics.

2. View the email discussion of a Usenet group. You don't really join these groups, but instead you use a mail reader (such as Netscape, Explorer, or Newswatcher) to read the messages of the different groups. There are thousands of groups to choose from.

3. If you have the software available, join a chat group or Cu-SeeMe session. These groups usually have a short lifespan, so their communication will be somewhat different than the groups described above.

If you are returning to the activity, please answer the questions that follow.

1. What task roles were enacted in your on-line group? That is, which roles were used to guide discussion, solve problems, or make decisions?

2. Which were the most common task roles?

3. What social roles were used in your on-line group? That is, which roles were used to smooth differences between group members and promote social bonding in the group?

4. Which were the most common social roles?

5. What self-centered roles were used in the group?

6. Did the self-centered roles help or hurt the group? Explain.