To experience a student's view of a Virtual Communal Space (VCS), click on Pavlovian Conditioning demonstration at the end of this set of instructions when you are ready to start.

1. When you have clicked on Pavlovian Conditioning demonstration, this set of instructions will be in a frame to the left, and our demo VCS site will be in a frame to the right. This opening screen is pretty typical for a VCS (this particular VCS is from Web Course in a Box). The opening screen gives you six options. The frame is resizeable, so feel free to give yourself as much room as possible for exploring this site to get a feel for the environment.

2. When you are ready to start the demonstration, click on Schedule, then click on the words Pavlovian conditioning.

3. This brings you to my Pavlovian conditioning page. It begins with a fairly condensed exposition of the basics of Pavlovian conditioning. After you have read this basic material, you will encounter Blinky (). Blinky tells my students that there is something they should do at this point in their reading. Click on Blinky, which will bring up a screen that will prepare you to engage in an active demonstration of Pavlovian conditioning.
4. When you have read the instructions, click on Pavlov's dog (), and the fun begins. (If you have a sound board. If you do not have a sound board, imagine that you are listening to a particularly graphic recording of a dentist drilling a cavity.)

5. The conference section of our VCS will appear in an accompanying frame as the sound file loads. As the conference appears, you will be asked to log in. You can use the login s1, s2, etc., all the way up to s22. The password is the same as the login. After listening to the drilling, write a brief description of your reactions, then click on "Submit," and a list of the postings by others will appear in the frame. The frames are resizable by putting your pointer on the frame divider, holding down the left button, and dragging the divider tow here you want it. Feel free to read as many as you wish.

6. Click your back button until you come back to the Pavlovian conditioning page, then continue reading.

7. When you are done, click the back button until you return here.

8. When you return here, you might want to continue to explore the features of this VCS. Since you have logged in, you can edit that "student's" information by clicking on Help/Utilities, then clicking on Create/Edit Your Homepage.

9. Start the demonstration by clicking Pavlovian conditioning demonstration now.

Email me and let me know how it worked!