Using the Coffee Shop

The Virtual Classroom’s Coffee Shop provides a cyberplace you can go to ask questions and exchange ideas, information, and opinions with your classmates--and students in other sections of the course. You never know, visiting economists (famous and otherwise) might even drop in from time to time to take part in the conversation.

The Coffee Shop is designed to promote discussion and sharing. Here some ways you can use its resources to do that:

• Send e-mail (to your instructor and/or fellow students)
• Post to and read bulletin boards
• Participate in the on-line chat Room
• Sign or read the guestbook
• View frequently asked questions (FAQs)--or ask a question yourself
• Provide comments/feedback
• Keep up with class news

To use The Coffee Shop’s resources,

1. Click The Coffee Shop’s icon on the Main Menu--or click the highlighted link near the beginning of this sentence.
   The Coffee Shop will appear, with this document on the left side of the screen and an outline of the available resources on the right side.
   
2. From the outline on the right side of the screen, select the resource you would like to use. Available options will be underlined and highlighted using a different text color.