Cyberspace Update

CyberEvents of April-June 1996

New Items and Features Appear on the NCRVE World Wide Web Server

Information about the VOCNET listserv has been expanded to include instructions on how to subscribe; links have also been added to allow searching of the last several months of VOCNET discussion via DejaNews, a nifty newsgroup search engine on the Web. See http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/VOCNET.html.

Also new is a nascent page of links to useful vocational education-related internet sites. Please check out the current (small) collection (at http://ncrve.berkeley. edu/OtherSites.html) and feel free to pipe in with your own suggestions (to dcarlson@uclink. berkeley.edu).

Here are some other items added to the Web in April-June:

• A Conceptual Framework for Industry-Based Skill Standards (CenterFocus no. 11, April 1996) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF11.html
• Exemplary Career Guidance Programs: What Should They Look Like? (MDS-855, August 1995) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-855/
• Family Matters in School-to-Work Transition--A Research Update for Policymakers and Educational Leaders (MDS-807, February 1996) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-807/MDS-807.html
• Learning to Work: How Parents Nurture the Transition From School-to-Work--A Research Update for Parents (MDS-807, February 1996) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-807/MDS-807.2.html
• Making Sense of Industry-Based Skill Standards (MDS-777, December 1995) http://ncrve. berkeley.edu/MDS-777/
• Preparing Teachers to Successfully Integrate Vocational and Academic Education: A Case Study Approach (MDS-780, December 1995) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-780/
• Profiles and Best Practices: Exemplary Vocational Special Populations Programs (MDS-856, November 1995) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-856/
• Standard Times vol. 2, no. 1 (November 1995) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/ST2.1/
• Using Data for Program Improvement: How Do We Encourage Schools to Do It? (CenterFocus no. 12, May 1996) http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF12.html

VOCNET and DISSMN8 Continue to Grow

DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion list for educational dissemination-related topics, boasted 102 subscribers at the end of June. If you are interested in having input on what a National Educational Dissemination System (NEDS) might look like, please join in.

See the instructions at the end of this article to learn how you can participate!

How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services

subscribe vocnet yourfirstname yourlastname

For example, Carl Perkins would send the message

subscribe vocnet Carl Perkins

Once you have subscribed, you may post items to VOCNET by sending e-mail to vocnet@cmsa.berkeley. edu. Your message will be distributed by e-mail to all subscribers. VOCNET also exists as the Netnews newsgroup bit.listserv.vocnet.

DISSMN8--To subscribe, send a one-line e-mail message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu that says:

subscribe dissmn8 yourfirstname yourlastname

For example, Carl Perkins would send the message

subscribe dissmn8 Carl Perkins

Once you have subscribed, you may post items to DISSMN8 by sending e-mail to dissmn8@cmsa. berkeley.edu; your message will be distributed by e-mail to all subscribers.

World Wide Web--Point your internet WWW browser (Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, etc.) to http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/

Gopher--Point your Gopher client (TurboGopher, Netscape, etc.) to gopher://ncrve.berkeley.edu

FTP--Point your FTP program (Fetch, Netscape, etc.) to ftp://ncrve.berkeley.edu/FTP/ Log in with the user ID anonymous, and provide your e-mail address as the password.

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