Emily Johnson
ABSTRACT
The pandemic forced all of us to redefine and evaluate the possibilities of remote work. As access to high-speed internet increases, the necessity to collaborate within the same physical location has decreased. New tools for distant collaboration have been developed and adopted around the world, and many of these distributed work practices may in fact be here to stay. Understanding the ways communication is impacted by the affordances of digital tools like Discord can help improve how the tools are used as well as how postsecondary programs prepare their future technical communicators for the virtual workplaces where they may be employed after graduation. This experience report describes the remote communication that took place between the author and three different groups of three to five undergraduate computer science students in a two-semester capstone course developing varied aspects of a website, database, and three language learning games for VR, PC/Mac, and mobile devices, respectively.
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