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NCRVE
      CYBERSPACE                                           Issue No. 26
                 UPDATE                 Events of August-September 1998
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National Center for Research in Vocational Education
University of California at Berkeley


In this issue:

o Keep up with the NCRVE website
o New features on the NCRVE website
o New items appear on the NCRVE website
o VOCNET and DISSMN8
o How to connect to NCRVE electronic services

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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 
510 people were on the list at the end of September.


NEW FEATURES ON THE NCRVE WEBSITE

Site Search Engine

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.

Self-serve Events Calendar

The NCRVE calendar of vocational education events now accepts events 
announcements online using interactive forms.  Submit your event 
for inclusion in the calendar by visiting 
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CalendarPage.html.

Federal Legislation Links

NCRVE has compiled a page of links to online sources for major 
vocational education legislation and related resources at 
http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/LegislationLinks.html.


NEW ITEMS APPEAR ON THE NCRVE WEBSITE

Seven items were added to the Web in the last two months:

  o CenterWork Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer 1998); 
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CW92/

  o Learning How to Learn at Work (CenterFocus no. 19, June 1998);
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF19.html

  o Readin', Writin', 'Rithmetic One More Time: The Role of Remediation 
    in Vocational Education and Job Training Programs, by W. N. Grubb, 
    J. Kalman, M. Castellano, C. Brown, D. Bradby (MDS-309, October 1991); 
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-309/

  o Resource Guide to Educational Standards, by P. A. Holmes, M. Rahn
    (MDS-1205, September 1998 [electronic version only at this time]); 
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-1205/

  o The Role of Community Partnerships in School-to-Work Programs 
    (CenterFocus no. 20, August 1998); 
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/CenterFocus/CF20.html

  o Separate Tables:  Academic and Vocational Education Reforms in 
    Traditional, Comprehensive High Schools, by N. A. Prestine 
    (MDS-1076, August 1998); http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-1076/

  o The Standards-Setting Process in Accounting:  Lessons for Education 
    and Workplace Reform, by D. Merritt, T. Bailey (MDS-949, August 1998); 
    http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/MDS-949/
    

VOCNET AND DISSMN8

VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion list for all voc ed topics, currently 
has about 1,509 subscribers. Approximately 210 items were posted in August-
September. 

DISSMN8, NCRVE's listserv discussion list for educational disseminationÐ
related topics, now boasts 188 subscribers, up 6% from 1 August 1998.  


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, and is archived by
   AskERIC on the Web: 
     http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/vocnet.html
     
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--To get an answer to questions about any vocational
   education-related topic, 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/.

For more information on NCRVE's electronic services, contact David 
Carlson at NCRVE by email (dcarlson@uclink.berkeley.edu) or by phone 
(800-(old phone deleted)).