Asia EdNet

Asia EdNet Tutorial - Module 4
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Other mailing lists Additional

Many other mailing lists exist and this section of the module allows you to find out a little about some of them. Be aware, however, that this can only be an introduction and there are many more which you might discover later.

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Using a directory to find mailing lists

To look at a large number of mailing lists you can use a directory such as the discussion group listing available on EdNA Online.

EdNA attempts to list most of the active discussion groups related to education in Australia and so is a good place to start when trying to locate a mailing list of interest to you. Here is a listing of discussion groups aimed at school teachers (http://www.edna.edu.au/go/browse/0:schooled:leadership:eliststchr?Searchmode=Advancemode#resulttab).

For a very large, and more general, listing, try the Tile.net directory (http://www.tile.net/lists/).

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Oz-TeacherNet

Some discussion groups which will be of interest to Australian teachers are run by oz-TeacherNet.

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    Task 5 - Oz-teachers and oz-webquests Additional

    A general discussion group is oz-teachers. Visit its archives (http://lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/pipermail/oz-teachers/) and scan recent postings. (Start by clicking on 'Thread' or 'Subjects'.) If you would like to subscribe, you can do so on the main oz-teachers page (http://lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/oz-teachers).

    Oz-TeacherNet also has a discussion group dealing with Australian WebQuests (WebQuests were discussed in Module 3). Check to see what is being discussed (http://lists.rite.ed.qut.edu.au/pipermail/oz-webquests/).

    Suggest reasons for the extent of activity in each of the two discussion groups.

    SuggestionsSuggestions

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Some other mailing lists

Here are a few more mailing lists that might be of interest:

World Wide Web in Education (WWWEDU)
http://edwebproject.org/wwwedu.html
Reputedly the world's largest discussion group devoted to the use of the web in education. Developed by Andy Carvin of the US Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Scout Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/current/
A weekly newsletter from the Internet Scout Project at the University of Wisconsin which offers 'a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators'. Apart from a selection of sites there is also a brief commentary called 'In the News', which would be of interest to many teachers and sometimes includes issues relating to Asia.

Classroom Connect Community: Email lists
http://www.classroom.com/community/email/
Classroom Connect hosts a number of email lists for K-12 teachers. You can subscribe to the lists and browse or search the archives online.

The Networker
http://www.edna.edu.au/networker/
This email newsletter provides a fortnightly listing and description of the latest websites, news and events that have been added to the EdNA Online directory. Instructions for subscribing to this and other EdNA email newsletters are available online.
(http://www.edna.edu.au/edna/go/pid/472).

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