Module 4: Internet communication

Other mailing lists

Using a directory to find mailing lists
Other education mailing lists

There are many mailing lists and this section helps you find out a little about some of them. This is only an introduction - there are many other lists that you might discover later.

Using a directory to find mailing lists

To look at a large number of mailing lists you can use a directory such as EdNA Online (http://www.edna.edu.au/) and go to School Education > For Teachers > Discussion Lists for Teachers. EdNA Online also has its own discussion group lists (http://www.edna.edu.au/messaging/index.html) where you can view a number of lists or create your own.

For a very large and more general listing, try Topica (http://www.topica.com/).

Other education mailing lists

A number of discussion groups that will be of interest to Australian teachers are run by oz-TeacherNet (http://rite.ed.qut.edu.au/oz-teachernet/). You can visit and scan recent postings from the archives of a general discussion group at oz-Teachers Archive by selecting the graphic in the sidebar. You can also find a discussion group dealing with Australian WebQuests at oz-WebQuests.

Here are some other mailing lists that may interest you.

EdWeb: WWWEDU: World Wide Web in Education List
http://www.edwebproject.org/resource.cntnts.html
Scroll down and click on the pencil marked WWWEDU: The Web and Education List. This is reputedly the world's largest discussion group devoted to the use of the web in education. It was developed by Andy Carvin of the US Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Scout Report
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
This is 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, educators, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material'.

Classroom Connect Email Lists
http://www.classroom.com/community/email/
Classroom Connect provides email lists for educators. Among a range of other newsletters, it puts out the K-12 Newsletter, which can be useful because it synthesises information from a range of other newsletters for teachers.

EdNA: What's New: EdNA For Schools
http://www.edna.edu.au/whatsnew/index.html
The email newsletter EdNA For Schools provides a weekly listing and description of the latest websites that have been added to the EdNA Online directory. It often focuses on particular themes and current events. Instructions for subscribing are available from the online version of the newsletter.