Using a Variety of Technologies To Create and Maintain a Long-Distance Materials Development Team.

Groups of editors and authors used a variety of technologies to create a cohesive team that produced a textbook series with instructor manuals along with a supporting Web site. Describes the development of the groups for this materials publication project in terms of six areas--situation, leadership, individual versus group goals, norms, roles, and cohesiveness--and the ways communication technologies facilitated the group's goals. (Author/VWL)