xgrad
Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:16:50 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Diane, Hi all, I haven't a clue as to why the xgrad list
evolved the way it has. But I do remember during my graduate
studies at Stanford being linked as a class to xgrad where my job
was to print out for our class the conversations that took place
there. I remember deep and insightful discussions of readings in
sociocultural theory and in particualr of Vygotsky which we also
had assigned in our reading lists. This was in the early 80s and
while our class never participated in those discussions at UCSD,
it was I think interesting to all of us on several counts: 1> that
such material was also being discussed and studied elsewhere (and
not just any elsewhere since this was where many of the authors of
our reading list were actually teaching- Griffin, Cole, Diaz...)
and 2> it was e-mail communication at its onstart, the potentials
of it just being glimpsed at.
As to the distribution of conversations over and across the
different lists when such lists were active, there is a section in
my book where several factors are offered as possible
explanations, at least as contributing elements to activity.
Francoise Francoise Herrmann fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org
http://www.wenet.net/~herrmann