CYBERSPACE UPDATE--Get Connected

by David Carlson

• Site Search Service
• Rate 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 new site search service and more publications available on the World Wide Web. For titles of items added to the Web in last few months, see Products Online in the pullout section of this CenterWork. 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.)

Site Search Service

Thanks to the U.S. Department of Education's Cross-Site Index (at <http://search.ed.gov/csi/index.html>, you can now search the full text of all pages on the NCRVE website. Use the customized search form at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/SiteSearch.html> to search the index for NCRVE's own pages.

Rate the NCRVE Website

We'd like to know how you feel about the usability and content of the NCRVE website. Please provide your feedback on a quick-and-easy online form at <http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/WebEvalForm.html>.

Keep Up with the NCRVE Website

Would you like to get a short email message whenever new publications and features become available on the NCRVE 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 525 people were on the list at the end of October.

VOCNET and DISSMN8

VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion group for all voc ed topics, currently has about 1,522 subscribers, up 1 percent from August 1. Approximately 300 items were posted in August-October. 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 185 subscribers, up 4 percent from August 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 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.

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.