Cyberspace Update

Get Connected: NCRVE Cyberspace Update

(Events of December 1996-May 1997)

by David Carlson

NCRVE has a variety of electronic services available to the public. Highlights include: online discussion groups, "virtual" copies of newsletters, and information about school-to-work technical assistance providers. Our electronic services are already used by thousands of people--for information on how you can join in, keep reading! (Note: electronic addresses given below are enclosed in <angle brackets> to set them off from the text. Do not include the brackets when typing the addresses on your computer.)

A New Way to Keep up with the NCRVE Website

Would you like to get a short email message whenever new publications and features become available on the National Center for Research in Vocational Education Website?

If so, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu, and put the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line of the message.

New Items Appear on the NCRVE Website

A directory of Web sites maintained by or about K-12 vocational programs continues to grow. See the links established so far at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/K12.html>, and see the "call for sites" in the November/December 1996 issue of AVA's Techniques magazine (p. 17) or at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/NETGain6.html>.

Information about NCRVE's Educational Development Services is now available at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/EDS/>.

A page of links to useful vocational education-related Internet sites continues to grow. Please check out the current collection (at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/OtherSites.html> and feel free to contribute your own suggestions.

Here are some other items added to the Web in the last six months:

School-to-Work Policy Insights from Recent International Developments (CenterFocus Number 14, January 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF14.html>
Assessing Students for Workplace Readiness (CenterFocus Number 15, February 1997)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF15.html>
School-to-Work for the College-Bound (CenterFocus Number 16, March 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley. edu/CenterFocus/CF16.html>
Vocational Education and Arts Education: An Important Synergy (CenterFocus Number 17, April 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF17.html>
CenterWork Volume 8, Number 1 (Winter 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CW81/>
Fostering Entrepreneurship Through Business Incubation: The Role and Prospects of Postsecondary Vocational-Technical Education. Report 3: Guidebook of Opportunities for Two-Year Technical Colleges (MDS-727, August 1996) <http://ncrve. berkeley.edu/MDS-727/>
High School Restructuring and Vocational Reform: The Question of "Fit" in Two Schools (MDS-812, September 1996)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-812/>
Lessons From Life's First Teacher: The Role of the Family in Adolescent and Adult Readiness for School-to-Work Transition (MDS-725, June 1996)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-725/>
School-to-Work for the College-Bound (MDS-799, February 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-799/>
School-to-Work Policy Insights from Recent International Developments (MDS-950, December 1996) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-950/>

VOCNET and DISSMN8 Continue to Grow

VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,790 subscribers, up 13 percent from December 1, 1996. Approximately 611 items were posted in December-May.

DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for educational dissemination- related topics, now boasts 150 subscribers, up 15 percent from December 1, 1996. If you are interested in providing input on what a National Educational Dissemination System (NEDS) might look like, please join in.

How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services

VOCNET--To subscribe, send a one-line email message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu that says:

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 email 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 email to dissmn8@cmsa. berkeley.edu. Your message will be distributed by email to all subscribers.

NCRVE-WWW-Announce--To subscribe, send an email message to ncrve-www-announce@ncrve.berkeley.edu that contains the word subscribe in the subject line.

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 email address as the password.

David Carlson managed electronic communications for NCRVE's Dissemination Program.

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