Get Connected: NCRVE CyberSpace Update
by David Carlson
- New Items on the NCRVE Website
- Keep up with the NCRVE Website
- VOCNET and DISSMN8
- How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services
NCRVE has a variety of electronic services available to the public. Highlights of the past few months include: a redesign of the Events Calendar to allow users to submit event information online and more publications available on the World Wide Web. 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.)
New Items on the NCRVE Website
Four items became available online in June-July:
- Executive Summary for New Designs for the Two-Year Institution of Higher Education (MDS-1109; <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/Summaries/1109sum.html>)
- CenterWork Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring, 1998); <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CW91/>
- "NET Gain" on Workplace Literacy (from AVA's Techniques magazine, May 1998); <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/NETGain/NETGain19.html>
- The 1998 Agenda and Personnel Directory for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (MDS-1223, June 1998); <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-1223/>
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 465 people were on the list at the end of July.
VOCNET and DISSMN8
VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,511 subscribers, down 10 percent from June 1. Approximately 230 items were posted in June-July. VOCNET archives are available on the AskERIC website, at <http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/vocnet.html>.
DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for educational dissemination-related topics, now boasts 178 subscribers, up 3 percent from June 1.
How to Connect to NCRVE Electronic Services
World Wide Web --Point your WWW browser to <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/>.
VOCNET--To subscribe, send a one-line email message to 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.
DISSMN8--To subscribe, send a one-line email message to 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.
AskNCRVE--If you have a question about a vocational education-related issue, send email to AskNCRVE@ncrve.berkeley.edu.
CyberSpace Update--For a copy of the most recent CyberSpace Update, which summarizes the items added to the NCRVE website during the preceding two months, send a blank email message to CyberSpace@ncrve.berkeley.edu. Current and back issues of CyberSpace Update (covering events since April 1998) are available on the web at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CyberSpace/>.
David Carlson managed electronic communications for NCRVE's Dissemination Program.