Lesson plan Topic: Сomputer-Mediated Communication (cmc) Aims

Activity 2


Identify the disadvantages Computer Mediated Communication and comment their each idea.

Activity 3
Read the text and explain how this text is different from the more traditional forms of paper-based writing. (First, introduce with some useful information below the text).

cato: hi buddy!!! :-) regent: hiya, wassup? cato: I been working SOOOO HARD! regent: did you know that your warning level is 0%? cato: well when i was on with julia she gave me a 20% warning regent: what does it mean? cato: if someone misbehaves you cna sene them a warning cato: ty it—pretend I said a rude word regent: For tea i'm having toad int hole with cabbage cato: yum yum you really know how to live well regent: you just said a rude word you naughty thing cato:> what—yum yum? regent: no you said to pretend you had said a naughty word so i did cato: durrr! regent: ok how do you do it cato: click on the warn button cato: have you died or something? regent: all right hold your horses stop rushing me cato: sorry ;-) regent: SLOW DOWN cato: ok, *slow* regent: sloooooooow dn cato: *sssslllloooowwww* ... regent: bye bye everyone, bye bye cato: tarrra luv! regent: good init? cato: yeh hehehe cato: try a smiley before you go regent: i’m off—how do you do smiley cato: do a colon dash and right bracket then return regent: :-) cato: hoorah! regent: amazing regent: silly tune aint it cato: you can go now you passed the smiley test regent: bye cato: byyyeeee

Some useful information
1) ‘cato’ and ‘regent’ are the log-in names of the participants. These names are
sometimes referred to as ‘nicks’.
2) In the particular chat facility being used, participants can store a list of their friends.
This list is called a ‘buddy’ list.
3) When participants are referring to the ‘warn button’, they are talking about a button
by which participants can send each other ‘warnings’, if they use offensive
language. For each warning, the offender in question carries a warning level,
expressed in the form of a percentage on their screen. When the person reaches
100%, he or she is ‘bounced’ automatically from the room.
4) Every time a participant sends a message to the screen, the software produces a
‘clanging’ noise.
5) The chat-log has been edited (at the point where…occurs) for reasons of space.