The Web has a graphic interface: click on the word or phrase that interests you and, like Alice in Wonderland, you will find yourself traveling pathways you never knew existed. NCRVE now has its very own "home page". If you click on "Youth Apprenticeship," the whole text of "CenterFocus #1" (a classic which is out of print in the paper world) will appear on your screen. There is a "hypertext" version of the recently released "Legislative Principles for Career-Related Education and Training: What Research Supports", which means you can zip from Introduction to References, if you wish, without having to scroll through intervening text. You can also find a library of NCRVE product abstracts, searchable by keywords.
Under "Links to Other NCRVE Online Services", you can connect to the VocServe bulletin board to find publications and curriculum abstracts, or you can connect to either the NCRVE Gopher or the NCRVE FTP site.
Gophers, like their namesakes, tunnel through material and pop up in various locations. The NCRVE Gopher server provides access to some of the same materials as the Web server, including the "Legislative Principles" document, back issues of CenterFocus, and a link to NCRVE's VocServe bulletin board. In addition, it contains links to the VOCNET listserv archive housed at the AskERIC gopher, allowing you to browse through recent VOCNET messages. The FTP site will get you all the materials in file libraries on the VocServe Bulletin Board. These include NCRVE newsletters, the LEP project, ERIC/ACVE materials, and selected voc ed legislation text.
For access to these new resources, you will need a connection to the Internet. For full access to the Web, you need a web browser such as Netscape or Mosaic, and a fast connection to the Internet. Mosaic uses graphic images, but there are other browsers that are based on text rather than graphics and which allow access with more modest resources. Gopher and FTP are services that are supported by most Internet service providers.
"Work-Based Learning in Two-Year Colleges in the United States" (MDS-721)
The full text of 19 briefs from NCRVE's Office of Special Populations (formerly known as the Technical Assistance for Special Populations Program) have been added to the NCRVE MATERIALS / SPECIAL POPULATIONS BRIEFS area of VocServe
The text of HR.511 (the "Workforce Preparation and Development Act") and H.R.1120 (the "Employment Enhancement Reform Act") have been posted in the VOC ED LEGISLATION TEXT area of VocServe.
NCRVE's "Legislative Principles for Career-Related Education and Training: What Research Supports" has been posted in NCRVE PRODUCTS & SERVICES/NCRVE MATERIALS/LEGISLATIVE PRINCIPLES.
Ten items have been added to the LEP PROJECT resource library area of VocServe.
VOCNET Subscription List Passes the 1,000 Mark
VOCNET, NCRVE's listserv discussion list, has grown 9% since March 1, to the current high of 1,040 subscribers. Approximately 240 items were posted during March and April, by about 160 different users. See the instructions below to see how you can participate!
VOCNET- To subscribe, send a one-line e-mail 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 an e-mail message to vocnet@cmsa.berkeley.edu; your message will be distributed by e-mail to all subscribers. VOCNET also exists as the Netnews newsgroup bit.listserv.vocnet.
World Wide Web-Point your internet WWW browser (Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, etc.) to http://ncrve.berkeley.edu/
For further information on NCRVE's electronic services, contact David Carlson at NCRVE (800-(old phone deleted)).