June 2 - Teachers.Net Tip of the Day:
The Teachers.Net Mailring
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Mailring Basics
For nearly a decade, Teachers.Net Has offered teachers a collection of free email "listservs" (or email discussion lists) designed to bring the Teachers.Net community to your email box every day. Joining the mailring (like all Teachers.Net resources) is free, and everyone is encouraged to participate fully.
To get the most out of the these mailrings, we recommend you contribute frequently. Introduce yourself, ask a question, offer an answer or tip, share a story or observation, or whatever you want to share. You're free to simply sit back and watch, but it's through participation that your mailrings become their most potent - a powerful community support tool for teachers around the world.
A Mailring for Everyone
Teachers.Net now offers 145 teacher mailrings - one for teachers in every state, every grade level, every major subject, and dozens of special interest topics YOU told us you wanted over the years. You can see the complete list of Teachers.Net mailrings at http://teachers.net/mailrings/ .
Mailrings by the Numbers
Some mailrings have thousands of subscribers (such as the Teachers.Net Gazette), and some have much less. The ten most popular discussion mailrings are:
classroom-management (595)
grade1 (486)
reading-teachers (464)
discipline (432)
6traits (371)
kindergarten (369)
grade2 (364)
beginning-teachers (333)
classroom-humor (322)
teach-talk (322)
brainbased-learning (316)
A complete list of the mailrings is included below, along with the number of subscribers on each, as of June 2, 2008.
Empower the Teachers.Net Mailring!
You can help the Teachers.Net community - and the teaching community in general - become more powerful. Make it a personal mission to help recruit teachers to these mailrings, because as our peer community grows, more perspectives and voices are added. You never know who might have an answer for your most troubling challenge in your career. By helping bring new teachers to these mailrings, you can help benefit the entire teaching profession.
Pass the word, and join more mailrings yourself! With just a few strokes of the keys, you can subscribe to any and all mailrings on Teachers.Net. The link again is http://teachers.net/mailrings/ and can always be found hyperlinked at the top of every page on Teachers.Net. As these mailrings reach "critical mass" (usually about 200 or so subscribers) the flow of the content becomes regular, and much richer. Join, join more, and spread the word!
New Feature - The Mailman Mailring Suite!
Beginning this year, Teachers.Net completed an ambitious programming project that resulted in the implementation of the powerful and feature-rich Mailman mailring software system. The system includes an impressive suite of features, some of which are described below, and provides a streamlined high efficiency architecture which enables extremely rapid delivery, no matter how big the mailrings become.
New Feature - Mailring Archives!
The Teachers.Net Mailring now provides archiving of all email sent to the list, so you can always access online the great content that flows through the list. To access the web archives for the mailrings, click on the link at the bottom of every mailring post, or access the archive through the mailrings webpage, linked at the top of every page on Teachers.Net.
http://mailring.teachers.net/mailman/listinfo
New Feature - Mailring Digests!
Too much email for you from a mailring? The mailrings now offer an option for receiving digests, which can greatly cut down on the amount of posts you receive from the more active mailrings. Check the listinfo page for any given mailring for more information about enabling this option.
New Feature - Spam Control!
The new Mailman software provides a host of anti-spam controls, protecting subscribers from both receiving spam on the mailring, and from having their email address appropriated by unscrupulous marketers - even if you post an email address in your email to the mailring. Post and subscribe without worry!
New Feature - HTML Emails and Select Attachments
The new Mailring Network no longer limits subscribers to the old "plaintext" (or ASCII) emails that characterizes majordomo list mail. The system protects subscribers from receiving malicious attachments (including all types of common email viruses) but allows users to share certain types of attachments with other users on the ring. The exact limits on types and sizes of attachments are being adjusted as we experiment with these, but this represents a big advance for teachers who like to share printables and worksheets and other attachments, especially the lower grade level teachers.
New Feature - Chatboard Companion Digest!
After years of experimentation, the Teachers.Net Mailring now provides a direct nexus between the mailring and the mailring's companion chatboard. Each mailring is designed to have a companion chatboard, expanding the utility of the mailrings to the web, and the chatboards to email. The chatboards collect information about each new topic started on the chatboard, and when a threshold is reached (usually 25), a digest of new topics is sent to the companion mailring.
Please support the mailring's companion chatboard! Just as every subscriber enriches the mailring network, every post on the chatboards enriches the Teachers.Net web community. So take a moment to review each digest, and click on the link of any new topic which interests you. We've worked hard to provide content from the chatboards that is most relevant to you - please check out these digests as often as you can, click and jump in on these threads. We all benefit from your participation!
Help Shape Teachers.Net!
Here at Teachers.Net, all of our community tools are the result of teacher input. If teachers want a new chatboard or mailring, or a new live event, or a new category in the lesson bank, or anything else that will help enrich the online teacher community, we love to oblige. We offer well over 100 unique teacher forums, each the result of teacher inpuit and support, and we're eager to hear your feedback, to tell us what's next.
To suggest a new chatboard and mailring, a new teacher resource or tool, or to send us any feedback of any type, please either:
Post to the Teachers.Net Feedback Chatboard: http://teachers.net/mentors/feedback/
Or send us a message through our online comment form: http://teachers.net/info/contacts.html
Don't forget to pass this message along to your colleagues who haven't yet found Teachers.Net. Join the Teachers.Net Mailring, every new voice helps make this website more powerful and effective!
Bob Reap
Site Developer
Teachers.Net
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