BCT 400

Joining List Serve related to Your Major

BACKGROUND

List Serves are sometimes useful, sometimes not so useful. You can find out what a List Serve is by using the Technology Encyclopedia on the following location: http://www.emTech.net (this is a page maintained by your BCT professors to assist educators around the world). Once you are at the encyclopedia, try List Serve, Mailing Lists, etc. to see if you can find the precise definitions and descriptions. You need to know about such mailing lists. Also be sure you know what it means by "list proc".

Dr. Price belongs to mailing lists related to topics such as: K-12 students using laptop computers in classrooms, travel tips for the budget traveler, her high school reunion group, and researcher on multimedia online. Her email will contain listings and notices from these and other list serves. When she opens her mail each day, typically there is at least one posting from one or more of these list serves.

The problem is that you have to join list serves very carefully ... or you get more than you can read! Be sure to "unsubscribe" if the information doesn't meet your needs.

We just want you to know how to find and use these as they could be quite helpful to you in your professional pursuits as well as your hobbies. We have one former student who belongs to a list serve about making lace using antique methods! Go figure.

Some of you may join "fun things" such as a music listing (Dr. Price is a "parrot head"; if you are fan of a particular performer, you will understand the term parrot head!). For this assignment, join something related to your profession, but remember that you can also join some fun lists.

SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS

First, you need to find some list serves related to some of your own interests (personal and professional). You do this by talking to others and searching through various sites. You might even try some search engines to find list serves listed. A great place to start is: http://www.neosoft.com/internet/paml/indexes.html.

After you have located one or more list serves related to something of interest to you, then you have to subscribe to the list serve. Typically you do that by putting "subscribe" in the body of your message on email. BUT... be sure to find out the specifics for the list serve you plan to use.

Once you are subscribed, you will forward your list serve acceptance email to your assignment mailbox for your section. Be sure your name shows up somewhere so that the email so Dr. Price knows who to credit for the List Serve points!

TURNING IN YOUR PRODUCT:

You will send forward you subscription acceptance email to your assignment mailbox:: goals400@bamaed.ua.edu

GRADING

List Serve	10 points
Be sure the list serve relates to some professional growth area or personal interest	Must meet this criteria to be accepted for credit
Evidence of enrollment provided in the form of acceptance/enrollment email from the list serve	Must meet this criteria to be accepted for credit

REQUIRED	10 points