Educators Listservs, Discussion Lists, & Newsgroups

From the ISLMC, a listing of listservs/discussion and newsgroups on children's and young adult literature, language arts, English and school librarianship. Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC), a meta-site for K-12 educators and librarians. This is a preview site of selected resources for school librarians, teachers, parents and students. Please drop by ISLMC Home Page. You can search this site, use an index or the site map. Page updated 2/27/99.

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Listservs & Discussion Groups

Members of listservs communicate with each other via e-mail. Traffic on some listservs can generate large quantities of e-mail. The following selected sites will help you locate listservs of interest or give information on how to subscribe.

Tile.net

List servers site. Find lists; vendors; newsgroups; set up your own listserv

Tile.net. Literature listservs

Index to Literature listservs

CHILDLIT-L: Children's Literature Forum

American Association of School Librarians

Information on: AASL Education of Library Media Specialists Section; AASL

Independent Schools Section; AASL Supervisors Section; ICONnect

Forum on Integrating Internet Resources; ICONnect Internet Technology

Issues Discussion

ECEOL: Early Childhood Education On Line

The Big Six Skills

Group devoted to teaching library information skills using the Big 6 research model; The listserv; archives; materials; Searchable at AskEric

ECENET-L: Early Childhood Listserv

E-Teach

Teaching with e-mail & multimedia

EDTECH Listserv

Topics, as networking, computers, technology in education. WWW site;

archived messages; can be searched at AskEric

ICONnect: KidsConnect

Question-answering, help and referral service to K-12 students on

the Internet. Component of AASL's ICONnect

LM_NET

School library media and network communications; searchable

Middle-L

Middle and early adolescence (10-14). Searchable at AskEric

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conversations

NCTE sponsors numerous lists by grade level, by topic or by discipline.

Secondary Literacy: Literacy in Secondary Schools

READPRO

Reading Professional's e-mail mailing list. Searchable at AskEric

yalsa-l

Young Adult Library Services Association List. From ALA

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USENET Newsgroups

You must be a member of a newsgroup in order to access a newsgroup site. Your server must be configured to access a USENET site directly. Access will depend upon your Internet provider. If you try to link from the WWW, your browser may shut down. You will find information on how to subscribe, the mission of the newsgroups and WWW postings for selected newsgroups here. These are not links to actual sites. Your computer will not be affected.

Tile Net Index to K-12 Usenet Newsgroups

Chat; ed; lang; library; sys

SUNETS's Index of...re/arts/books

Arthurian; Holmes; Robin Hood; children's; historical fiction; Tolkien; more

rec.arts.books.children

Mission, how to join. All aspects of children's literature. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) at Cherryvalley Books

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Chat Rooms

Chat Room Index

Chat Rooms from Prince William County Public Schools. Room available by discipline. Just log-on and chat

Teacher's Chat

Sponorsed by Real Kids/Real Adventures (com) and WebChat Broadcasting System. General Education. WWW based

Teacher Chat Room From University of Calgary (J. Ross); General Education. Post questions; help others; space down past application form to find topics

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Pen Pals

ePALS Classroom Exchange

Want to give students in your classes the opportunity to share ideas and information with classrooms around the world? ePals includes 78 different countries and 64 languages! Great site

Pen Pal Exchange

Alphabetical listing; schools (by country) seeking to exchange Pen Pal letters with other schools

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