EDUC791C: Instructional Technology
Subscribing to discussion and news groups
There is a large number of electronic mailing lists available on the Internet, through
which people discuss topics of interest:
- E-Mail Discussion Groups
gives a brief description of how these lists work and how to subscribe to them, as well as
a listing of available discussion groups.
- There also is a page related to
mailing lists at UMBC.
- Tile.net/listserv is a reference
list to all the LISTSERV discussion groups on the Internet.
- Yahoo
also has a page related to mailing lists.
- Publicly accessible mailing lists
is a hypertext index of mailing lists.
In general, you would find the name of mailing list that your are interested in (i.e. EDUCATIONAL-RESEARCH) and the
e-mail address of the listserv (i.e. listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu).
You would join this group by sending the message "sub EDUCATIONAL-RESEARCH your
name" to listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu.
There is also a large number of electronic news groups available on the Internet, related to specific topics of interest.
You access these directly through Pine by going to "FOLDER LIST - Select a folder OR news group to view", opening this,
tab to "News-collection - [ Select Here to See Expanded List ]", and type "A" for subscribe, and "Ctrl-T" for all groups.
A list of all available news groups will appear; of educational interest are the K12-groups and some other subject-related ones.
The World Wide Web Consortium gives
a similar list of all the news groups with a brief description of each.
Assignment:
- Subscribe to at least one discussion/Listserv group and at least one news group.
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