Cyberspace Update

Get Connected:
NCRVE Cyberspace Update
(Events of August-October 1997)

by David Carlson

NCRVE has a variety of electronic services available to the public. Highlights of the past three months include: more publications available on the World Wide Web, and a redesign of the online Products Catalog to that allows more flexible searching of products descriptions. 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.)

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. About 310 people were on the list at the end of October.

New Items Appear on the NCRVE Website

The Web version of the NCRVE Products Catalog has been redesigned to allow more flexible searching and to provide links to all available executive summaries, full-text, and related readings. Check out the new features at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/prodcat.html>.

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

CenterWork Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 1997)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CW82/>
Curriculum Quality Standards for School-to-Work: A Guidebook (MDS-955, February 1997) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-955/>
"NET Gain" on Welfare Reform (AVA's Techniques magazine, October 1997)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NetGain/NETGain13.html>
1995 Exemplary Career Guidance Programs: Opening Career Paths for All Students (MDS-1016, March 1996) <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-1016/>
Student Services: Achieving Success for All Secondary Students (MDS-1007, October 1996)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-1007/>
Voices of Diversity...in programs linking education and work (MDS-931, 1996)<http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/abstracts/MDS-931/>

VOCNET and DISSMN8

VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,695 subscribers, down 4 percent from August 1. Approximately 250 items were posted in August-October.

DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for educational dissemination- related topics, now boasts 179 subscribers, up 13 percent from August 1. 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 email 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 email 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.