BOOKMARKS

This is a list of hyperlinks which you should find useful. They cover all aspects of the course, and a few extras as well!

Local ALBE providers and workers.

• Syed Javed's homepage
• Dale Pobega's language and literacy pages
• Bill Daly's language and literacy pages
• Flemington Reding and Writing Program
• Carlton Adult Reading and Writing Program

HTML - WEB PAGES

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Yoshi Awaji's pages are a great introduction to schMOOze University. Click on the link that says "Guest Tour" and you'll get a very clear well organised intro to MOOing.

The second is another excellent guide to schMOOze University, giving step by step screen shots of what you will see when you log on.

The third one is the web homepage of schMOOze University, the MOO which we will be visiting. If you read up on a few of the links from this page, you'll be very well versed in MOO issues. You can read about the people who are regulars at schMOOze U, find out some of the history of the place and even find out who's on line at this very moment (without going there first!)

The fourth - Tips for MOO teachers in an invaluable checklist of thingss to consider and do before you try taking students to a MOO. Really vital stuff!

The others are all good and interesting links too and will provide you with information about many related matters as well as MOOing. there's a great magazine called "Kairos" which you really should check out.

• Yoshi Awaji's intro to schMOOze University
• "schMOOzing on the Internet" by Larry Davies, Lesley E. Shield and Markus J. Weininger
• Welcome to schMOOze University - the schMOOze home page
• Frizzy's intro to schMOOze
• Tracie Gardner's "MOO Teacher's Tip Sheet"
• Mex Butler's "Virtual ALBE"
• Lonnie Turbee's "Educational MOO: text-based virtual reality for learning in community"
• Steve Thorne's "More about MOOs"
• Jerome McDonough's "MOO/MU* Document Library"
• Jeff Galen's "MOOcentral home page"
• Spoof, Spam, Lurk, and Lag, Lee-Ellen Marvin's article in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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MAILING LISTS

Mailing lists let people with similar interests share information, news and questions. When you send a "posting" to a mailing list, everyone else on the list gets it too. News groups and bulletin boards are very similar.

"To take part in a mailing list, you have to join. To do this you send an email, usually to a computer whcih automatically processes your request and puts your name on the list.

The three most common types of mailing lists are:

• listserv
  listerv@address
• listproc
  listproc@address
• majorodomo
  majordomo@address

Mailing lists have two addresses: The List Address to which you send messages to everyone subscribed to the list; and the List Server Address, where you send commands, such as those that subscribe and unsubscribe you from the list. To avoid embarassment, be careful!"

Dave Sperling (1997) The Internet Guide for English Language Teachers Prentice Hall Regents:New Jersey.

To join most mailing lists you send a message to the list server address with NOTHING in the subject line, and in the body of the message only these words:


SUBSCRIBE (name of the list) (your name)


Make sure you don't put anything else in. It will only confuse the computer!







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MAILING LISTS

• adult_literacy
  listproc@fox.vut.edu.au
  This is our local list, run by Syed Javed. You will probably recognise some of the names. There are some subscribers from overseas too, so it's not just local in content.

• NETEACH-L
  mailto:listserv@thecity.edu
  An excellent list for teachers who use (or want to use) the internet in their teaching. You can meet some of the members of this list at schMOOze University where monthly real-time discussions are held. To get a sense of what this is like, check out the session logs at the NETEACH-L web pages.

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SOFTWARE SITES

You need to be able to get new software to help yourself with you internet work and play. A lot of the software on the internet is "freeware", that is you don't have to pay for it. Others are "shareware", and they ask that you send some money - usually not a great deal - in return for which they will send you a code to fully activate the program or get rid of annoying reminders.

Here are a few good sites where you can get software.

• Pure Mac - one of the best for Macintosh software. Each item is annotated so you know what you're getting.
• Tucows Victorian mirror site where you can get software for PCs and Macintosh. Also annotated.
• Vicnet's software site. Lots of hot links to local software download sites as well as the classics.

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