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Many thanks, Julie and Heather, for getting this started! Steve On Nov 28, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Julie Libarkin wrote: > Welcome to the latest collaboration of the geoscience education > research and geocognition research community – the Geoscience > Education Research Listserv (GEOED-RESEARCH)! This list is exactly > the outcome we hoped would come out of the interest group meeting > held at GSA in Oct. 2007. Several organizations and universities > offered to host this list, a great illustration of the significant > interest the community has in moving our common research interests > forward! We didn’t want to choose among all of these options, so we > went with the simplest route. The list is running off of a mailing- > list management product called LISTSERV, licensed through Michigan > State University. We are co-hosting the list, so it is truly multi- > institutional, and the list is designed so that anyone can join and > post. Instructions for easy subscribing and emailing to the list > are appended below. We have also added a few guidelines for list- > serve etiquette! > > We hope this listserv allows for open dialogue and new > collaborations. Please encourage those of your colleagues > interested in geoscience education research to join, whether they > are active researchers, avid readers, or interested collaborators. > We are looking forward to the opportunity to share ideas, and learn > from each other. > > Let the conversations begin! > > Julie Libarkin > Heather Petcovic > > > 1) TO SEND A MESSAGE TO GEOED-RESEARCH > Any registered subscriber can send a message to the list by > emailing the message to [log in to unmask] > > 2) TO SUBSCRIBE TO GEOED-RESEARCH: > Send an email to [log in to unmask] The body of the email > should contain the SUBSCRIBE command, as: > > SUBSCRIBE GEOED-RESEARCH firstname lastname > > 3) TO UNSUBSCRIBE TO GEOED-RESEARCH: Send an email to > [log in to unmask] The body of the email should contain the > SIGNOFF command, and must originate from the subscriber’s email: > > SIGNOFF GEOED-RESEARCH > > 4) SOME LISTSERV ETIQUETTE SUGGESTIONS > a. Use the list-serve to ask questions, share research findings, > post job ads, or anything related to geoscience education research. > b. Be professional in responding to others on the list-serve. > c. Please do not use the list-serve to share jokes, recipes, or > chat about the weather. We all get too much spam email as it is! > d. Don’t use attachments, as some people may not be able to read > them. Paste text into the body of the email, or place the > attachment on a webpage for people to download.