EUROCALL continued to operate from the Language Institute at the University of Hull, through the small team working at the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, consisting of June Thompson, Jenny Parsons, Fred Riley and Kylie Baxter. Sadly, Kylie moved to another post at the end of 1998, but we were fortunate to secure Julie Venner in her place to act as EUROCALL membership secretary.

The third bi-annual CSCL (Computer Support for Collaborative Learning) conference took place at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and was by European standards a huge conference, but apparently by American standards it was considered to be small. It was my first attendance at an International conference in the USA and I was quite overwhelmed by the size and beauty of the Campus at Stanford, but also by the very smooth organisation of a conference where everything, from registration, payment and paper submission to the publication of all papers was done on-line. The theme of the conference was ‘Designing New Media for a New Millennium: Collaborative Technology for Learning, Education and Training’.