List Review Service v1n07, "DTS-L" (February 24, 1992)
URL: ftp://ftp.lib.ncsu.edu/pub/stacks/lrs/lrs-v1n07


                      LIST REVIEW SERVICE         ISSN: 1060-8192

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Vol. 1, No. 7      DTS-L (Dead Teachers Society)      24 FEB 1992
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Published bi-weekly, when school is in session, by The University
of Missouri, St. Louis Libraries. Raleigh C. Muns, editor.

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SYNOPSIS OF ONE WEEK'S ACTIVITY -
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Name of List Reviewed:        DTS-L
Location:                     LISTSERV@IUBVM (Bitnet)

Listowner:                    Scott Anderson
                              BITNET: SOANDERS@IUBVM


Number of Subscribers:        109 users in 8 countries
                                   90% USA

Period Monitored:             18 FEB 92 - 24 FEB 92 (inclusive)

Messages Posted:              14
Number of Queries Posted:     03  (21 % of total activity)
Number of Non-queries Posted: 11  (89 % of total activity)

Lines Sent (w/o headers):      201 (app. 9 screens of 23 lines)

Searchable Archives:          Yes

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REVIEW -
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A feeling of warm fuzziness stole over me as I monitored this low-
key list with the cute name.  This is not a list for the
intellectual, research-oriented, high-powered network guru.  Most
Internet/BITNET activity is heavily slanted towards higher
education academics and (usually) technically oriented
professionals. This list, however, is the ONLY list so far where I
have encountered actual high school teachers (what I like to refer
to as "real-world types"). This is not to say that the participants
are unintellectual, but the environment, the very FEEL of the list,
is more relaxed than the academic lists I have encountered to date.

The most interesting message posted was from Anne Pemberton of
Nottoway High School, Nottoway, VA (APEMBERT@VDOE386.VAK12ED.EDU)
who has secured computer network access for her students.  She is
seeking expert e-correspondents (not "keypals" as she puts it) to
be intellectual resources for students in the class.  This crack in
the ivory tower ghetto of most computer network activity holds
fascinating promise and, hopefully, is a portent of even more
change in network activity (as if there isn't currently enough
volatility in cyberspace!).

As a subscriber, one becomes only "an associate member of the
Society of Dead Teachers."  By subscribing to the list, you will
receive information on how to become a full member.

-R. Muns

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SUGGESTED USES FOR LIST -
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        1)     Identify uses for Internet/BITNET in secondary
               schools.

        2)     Contact tool for education practitioners.

        3)     Contact tool for high school students.

        4)     Empathic environment for shy LISTSERV subscribers.


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Copyright 1992. Raleigh C. Muns (Reference Librarian)
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