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Tips

1. This is your profession. Act professionally. Remember that future employers may be reading your posts and visiting your web pages.
2. Anything in writing is permanent. Your email messages may be saved and used for a new purpose. For example, someone may forward your message to a new reader or someone may use your message in a publication. (This is bad netiquette. Messages should not be used without permission, but it happens.)
3. Remember that many people pay by the minute for their access time. Avoid wasting download time by copying entire messages into your replies. Copy only what is necessary to make your point clear.
4. Some "virus" warnings, hoaxes and jokes have circulated on the Internet for years. Think twice before forwarding the messages.
5. Cross posting is posting a message to more than one list. Avoid cross posting unless you have a very good reason.
6. Always write a subject in the subject line.
7. Humor is subjective. If you use humor or sarcasm in your message to a list, somebody is not going to get it and will probably think that you are rude, uncivilized, etc. Use emoticons to show your intent. <g>
8. Imagine that the list is a teacher's lounge. Listening to you are all different types of people from the teaching profession.
9. Angry exchanges in email are commonly called "flames." If someone reacts strongly against one of your messages, don't turn the list into a flame war.
10. When you join a new list, don't post right away. Lurk (or just read messages) for a few days or weeks.
11. When you join a list, read and save the welcome message. Many lists have rules, such as no messages over 50 lines. The welcome messages will also tell you the important commands you'll need to know for changing your subscription.
12. If you have questions, look for FAQs, or Frequently Asked Questions. These can often be found on webpages and in archives for lists.
13. Email should not be ignored. People who send personal messages expect them to be answered within a day or two. If you ignore your mailbox and it fills up, your mail will bounce creating problems for the owners of the lists, many of whom are volunteers.
14. Using all capitals is like SHOUTING. Use lower-case letters.
15. Always identify yourself. An easy way to do this is through configuring your signature file in Eudora.
16. Most people in our profession are friendly and will be glad to help if asked. When requesting help from a list, offer to summarize the responses or post the answers to the list.

TESL-L ELTASIA EFL-ASIA JALTCALL NETEACH-L

LLTI IECC ISSHO H-JAPAN H-ASIA

H-USA SL LISTS The List of Lists

This is the largest of all the ESL/EFL lists as far as I know. You definitely want to take advantage of the digest form (all the messages combined into one daily message).

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe TESL-L YourNameHere
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@cunyvm.cuny.edu

You must join TESL-L before you can join any of its sublists which are listed below. It's possible to set TESL-L to "no mail" and then only receive the messages from one of the sublists.

TESLCA-L - Technology, Computers, and TESL

TESLFF-L - Fluency First and Whole Language Approaches

TESLIE-L - Intensive English Programs, teaching and administration

TESLIT-L - Adult Education and Literacy

TESLJB-L - Jobs, employment, and working conditions in TESL/TEFL

TESLMW-L - Materials Writers

TESP-L - English for Specific Purposes

Foreign Language Teaching Mailing Lists

ELTASIA

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe ELTASIA-L
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

majordomo@nectec.or.th

EFL-ASIA

efl-Asia started in February of 1998. The main purpose of this list is for people who learn English as a foreign langauge and who are interested in this area to talk about English learning and teaching, and education in general in their countries. I hope that we will be able to clarify the purposes of learning English and learning itself, and to find solutions to problems concerning learning and teaching English especially in Asian countries.

The establishment of this list was strongly motivated by two postings to <jaltcall> by a Japanese person and a Taiwanese person, which you can read on the home page at http://toby.rikkyo.ac.jp/english/efl/efl.html

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe efl-Asia YourNameHere
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@toby.rikkyo.ac.jp

FLTEACH

This list deals mostly with foreign languages other than English.

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe FLTEACH YourNameHere
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu

JALTCALL

JALTCALL is an open listserv mailing list for discussion of language teaching issues in Japan. Anyone can join. After you subscribe, you will receive a welcome message with further instructions and list protocol.

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe
end

To this address:

jaltcall-ctl@clc.hyper.chubu.ac.jp

CALL Related Mailing Lists

NETEACH-L

NETEACH-L is an on-line forum through which international teachers of English as a foreign or second language (EFL/ESL) can discuss issues related to using the Internet as an educational tool.

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe NETEACH-L YourNameHere
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@thecity.sfsu.edu

LLTI

LLTI stands for Language Learning Technology International, a listserver created and moderated by Otmar Foelsche of Dartmouth College. LLTI has become the principal means of information exchange among those interested in language learning technology. All contributions are archived. Highlights of the discussions appear regularly in the IALL Journal.

To subscribe send the message:

SUB LLTI YourEmailAddressHere YourNameHere
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@dartmouth.edu

IECC

The IECC mailing lists are intended to facilitate international classroom electronic mail exchanges. Due to the high volume of postings on the IECC mailing lists (now with almost 2000 participants in 30 countries), the lists are broken into the following interest groups.

IECC - for teachers seeking K-12 classroom partnerships

IECC-PROJECTS - for teachers seeking partners for an e-mail project

IECC-DISCUSSION - for discussing strategies for using e-mail in an educational setting

IECC-SURVEYS - students and teachers can post requests for assistance on short-term projects, surveys, and questionnaires

IECC-HE - teachers seeking partner teachers in institutions of Higher Education

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To one of the following addresses:

IECC-REQUEST@STOLAF.EDU
IECC-PROJECTS-REQUEST@STOLAF.EDU
IECC-DISCUSSION-REQUEST@STOLAF.EDU
IECC-SURVEYS-DIGEST-REQUEST@STOLAF.EDU
IECC-HE-REQUEST@STOLAF.EDU

 

Culture Mailing Lists

ISSHO

ISSHO is a Tokyo-based non-profit organization which researches the multi-culturalization of Japan's society. We also use the Arts (particularly theatre), symposia and computer networking to facilitate inter-cultural awareness in Japan while striving to find and implement resolutions to cultural conflict on a global level. Information on past projects can be had by accessing our home page <http://www.iac.co.jp/~issho> and clicking on "Projects". Our lists ISSHO and ISSHO-J also provide general information and news briefs on Japan-related issues.

To subscribe send the message:

subscribe issho
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

majordomo@ml.gol.ad.jp

H-JAPAN

H-Japan is an international, nonpartisan electronic discussion group sponsored by H-Net: Humanities-On-Line and the Kansai Institute of Asia -Pacific Studies (KIAPS) of Osaka U. of Foreign Studies, Ohio State University and Michigan State University. It provides scholars, graduate students and professionals a free daily forum to discuss Japanese history, culture, religion, and society, including contemporary political, diplomatic, security, and economic issues.

To subscribe send the message:

sub H-JAPAN GivenName FamilyName, School
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@h-net.msu.edu

H-ASIA

The H-AISA list handles broader regional issues.

To subscribe send the message:

sub H-ASIA GivenName FamilyName, School
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@msu.edu

H-USA

H-USA is an Internet forum for the international study of the United States. H-USA is designed to serve teachers, scholars, journalists and advanced students worldwide--and especially in Japan. The primary purpose for H-USA is to enable teachers interested in American Studies and American history to obtain accurate information from scholars, and to discuss the meaning of current and historical events. We will facilitate "pen pal" arrangements between classes in the USA and other countries.

To subscribe send the message:

sub H-USA GivenName FamilyName, School
(don't forget to turn off your signature file)

To this address:

listserv@h-net.msu.edu

Student Lists

SL Lists: International EFL/ESL Student Discussion Lists

The Student Lists were established in February 1994 to provide a forum for cross-cultural discussion and writing practice for college, university and adult students in English language programs around the world. There are currently ten student lists, but more may be added as the demand for them becomes evident:

INTRO-SL : Discussion List for New Members

CHAT-SL : General Discussion List (Low level)

DISCUSS-SL : General Discussion List (High level)

BUSINESS-SL : Discussion List on Business and Economics

ENGL-SL : Discussion List on Learning English

EVENT-SL : Discussion List on Current Events

MOVIE-SL : Discussion List on the Cinema

MUSIC-SL : Discussion List on Music

SCITECH-SL : Discussion List on Science, Technology & Computers

SPORT-SL : Discussion List on Sports

For more information please visit their website at: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/education/sl/sl.html

The Internet List of Mailing Lists

For more detailed instructions as well as the descriptions and addresses of more lists than you could ever possibly want to join, please visit Kenji and Kathleen Kitao's wonderful page of lists at http://ilc2.doshisha.ac.jp/users/kkitao/online/list/. It's not only immense, it's also well organized.

schMOOze University offers many things to many people. In terms of professional opportunities it offers a chance to collaborate and learn with colleagues from all over the world.

A good example of the professional importance of schMOOze can be seen in the February 1998 issue of The Language Teacher. One of the articles was written by three people who have only met in schMOOze. Lawrence(Larry) B. Davies (aka Godzilla at schMOOze University), Lesley Shield (Open University, U.K.), and Markus J. Weininger (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, SC-Brasil) collaborated online and wrote "Godzilla Can MOO, Can You? MOOs for Construction, Collaboration & Community and Research" which can now be read online at http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/jalt/pub/tlt/.

Online Instruction: Trends and Issues II

Registration is now being accepted for the Third Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference, "Online Instruction: Trends and Issues II." For registration information, go to http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc98

The registration period is from 24 February to 17 March 1998. The late registration period is from 18 March to 7 April 1998. The completely virtual conference this year (April 7-9) will include:

- Keynote presentations by Lucy T. MacDonald (Chemeketa CC, Oregon) and Steve McCarty (Kagawa JC, Japan)

- Over 100 presentations (please see the list of accepted proposals below)

- Preconference workshops

- Open forums on critical issues

- Email and MOO discussions

- Exciting web tours

- A virtual cafe

This conference is sponsored by the University of Hawaii-Kapiolani Community College and the Teaching in the Community Colleges List (TCC-L). Conference co-coordinators are Dr. Jim Shimabukuro, Associate Professor, English, and Dr. Bert Kimura, Professor/Coordinator, Educational Media Center. Email: jamess@hawaii.edu, bert@hawaii.edu.

Chat Online with Experts in Language Education

Delta Systems Co., Inc. and the Center for Applied Linguistics have teamed up to provide free live professional development events on the Internet for ESL/EFL educators. Using the latest chat room applications, we're making it possible for you to have real-time discussions with experts Jim Crawford, Jim Cummins, Tamara Lucas, and Catherine Snow. We're providing the place on the Web, the handouts, and the experts. All you need to do is show up at your computer and join in with your questions and comments.

The format for each event will be a one-hour chat session followed by four days of bulletin board discussions with the speaker. These bulletin board discussions will be available on the Web 24 hours a day for you to read and respond to as you like, when you like.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Visit CAL's Web site (www.cal.org) or Delta's Web site (www.delta-systems.com) for more information on each session and instructions on how to participate.

We hope you'll join us in taking advantage of this exciting opportunity!

For additional information, contact Chris Montone at chris@cal.org or call 202-429-9292 ext. 270.

COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday, March18
8:15-8:45 pm EST, 5:15-5:45 pm PST
"Innovative Ways to Write with Adult Learners" with Joy Kreeft Peyton, Ph.D.

On March 18, we'll be hosting a mock chat event live from the International TESOL Convention in Seattle. If you're at TESOL, come join us in Room 608, from 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm (PST) and find out more about how these sessions work.

Tuesday, March 24
8:00-9:00 pm EST, 5:00-6:00 pm PST
"How to Craft Relationships with Your Students that Promote Success" with Jim Cummins, Ph.D.

"Human relationships are at the heart of schooling." This is often thought, but rarely spoken. This session will take you beyond technical teaching skills to address the critical issue of forging social relations with your culturally diverse students that will encourage