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Hi Everyone! Amanda and I would like to meet you at the CASLL MOO on Saturday, Jan. 17, 1998 at 3:00 p.m. CST. Look for the "Quick Reference" list in the last newsletter and keep it by you while you MOO. (If this is the first time you're MOOed, type <walk to CASLL> when you appear at The Top of the Big Hill.) PLEASE NOTE: Connections has moved to a new server. Please point your MOO client at connections.moo.mud.org 3333 or use the following address: 207.170.120.12 3333 During this session, we'd like to discuss the theme of the next newsletter: "What's going on with WAC/WID in Canada?" (Of course you can also expect the usual socializing and fun.) In case you still haven't downloaded a MOO client, here's the info from the newsletter on where to go to get one. Janice Freeman Centre for Academic Writing University of Winnipeg MOO clients The first step in MOOing is to download a good MOO client. They are free and generally take up little space on a hard drive. Although any telnet client will allow users to connect to a MOO, a MOO client makes the process much simpler. Pueblo multimedia virtual world client http://www.chaco.com/pueblo/ Pueblo is a powerful client that will work with Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. It has many features that few educational MOOs support, but it comes with good documentation. MacMOOSE ftp://ftp.microserve.com/pub/msdos/winsock/zipped_files/mudwin.zip This is a reliable and compact client for Macintosh users; it requires system 7 and MacTCP (or FreePPP). MudWin ftp://ftp.microserve.com/pub/msdos/winsock/zipped_files/mudwin.zip This is one of the smallest MOO client available (72k); it downloads quickly and takes up little space. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much documentation about it. Virtual reality in education: Education and Moo, Mud, Mush http://www.cris.com/~angus1/index.html These pages contain links to several free MOO clients for both Windows and Macintosh systems. A real bonus is the clear instructions for downloading clients. Computer Writing & Research Labs' Mush & MOO page http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/moo/clients.html Not only does this page contain links to some of the most popular MOO clients, it also has links to FAQ pages, tutorials and references. Find out how out colleagues at the University of Texas use MOOs in their classes.