Connections

Find educators who share your subject-area specialties or other areas of interest.

See District Connections for additional mailing lists and forums. Visit On The Web for help finding other lists and forums of interest, and for basic information on how mailing lists and newsgroups work.

E-Mail and Mailing Lists

Teacher Contact Database

Classroom Connect presents a database of over 3,000 educators in the U.S. and Canada who are connected to the Internet and interested in sharing. You can join the database or search for others by name, state/province, subject area, age of students, and more.
http://www.classroom.com/teachercontact/

OEMA Mailing Lists

Oregon Educational Media Association hosts two e-mail forums, one focusing on school and youth library issues, the other on school technology issues and concerns. Both lists are open to all who share these interests.
http://www.oema.net/Telecommunication/list.htm

Oregon School Improvement Listserv

An active list created to provide a free, quick, and easy medium for communication, information exchange, and support among those interested in school-to-work and other school-improvement issues and topics.
http://www.open.k12.or.us/jitt/stw.html

Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library

The Blue Web'n library is an educator's best friend--a browsable and searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject, audience, and type of activity. Sign up for the free weekly e-mail update to hear about the "hot site of the week" and to be apprised of additions to their library.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html

The Classroom Flyer

This is a free daily e-mail flyer from Riverdeep - The Learning Company. For K-12 teachers, the flyer features useful information on currents events, a review of "this day in history," links to teachers' Web sites and online resources that will help you use the Web with your students in practical and imaginative ways.
http://mta1.cheetahmail.com/cgi-bin/subscribers/onepage.cgi?aid=145451857&AFF=AFF

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Newsgroups

Usenet Newsgroups

A brief introduction to Usenet newsgroups - what they are, who they are, how to use them, newsgroup etiquette, with a listing of several K-12 newsgroups. From Pennsylvania's Link to Learn Professional Development project.
http://205.146.39.13/linktuts/bgnews.htm

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Live Chat

Teachers' Net Chatboard Network

General-interest forums, curriculum chatboards, project centers, language centers, regional chatboards by state, scheduled online meetings and events.
http://www.teachers.net/mentors/

Teachers' Chat

Directions for how to get the software necessary to participate in Teachers Helping Teachers Chat sessions held every Sunday evening.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/ircinfo.h tml

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