Education and Training Email Lists and Bulletins

ACTEW-L
ACTEW, Advocates for Community-Based Training and Education for Women, is a non-profit umbrella organization representing community-based agencies across Ontario delivering employment and training services to women. ACTEW is mandated to take up the issues faced by our member agencies and the women they serve. ACTEW's website -- The Online Women�s Training Community -- brings women�s training providers together to share information and network online. Their online community features facilitated online discussions, downloadable publications, interactive events, news and resources, a database of ACTEW members and services, and the ACTEW-L email mailing list to stay connected.
To join: Visit their website at www.actew.web.net or send the message "subscribe ACTEW-L" to majordomo@list.web.net.

Adult Education Network (AEDNET)
An international network of individuals interested in adult education. AEDNET is operated by the Adult Education Program of the Programs for Higher Education of the Abraham S. Fischler Center for the Advancement of Education at Nova Southeastern University located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. AEDNET activities include network-wide discussions and information exchanges on topics and queries, conferences and special events, of interest to adult and continuing educators. Also, a refereed electronic journal, New Horizons in Adult Education, is distributed through AEDNET.
To subscribe: Send a message to listserv@list.nova.edu with the command "subscribe aednet your_name" in the email message.

AFRO-TECHIES
A list for technically-inclined women of African descent. Discussion topics include the World Wide Web, networking, software applications, hardware technologies, operating systems, mailing list management, programming, etc. An additional purpose of the list is to find ways to expand the experience and knowledge of Black women about technology. List members need not be technology or computer professionals but should be actively engaged in technology and interested in learning more.
To subscribe: Send a message to AFRO-TECHIES-REQUEST@PERSEPHONE.HAMPSHIRE.EDU with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG)
To subscribe: Send the message "subscribe ATEG" to LISTSERV@MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU.

BIZ-L
A list for women in business, especially Canadian women business owners. The list supports members in their efforts to get into business, find new customers, market their products/services, and network.
To subscribe: Send the message SUBSCRIBE BIZ-L to MAJORDOMO@WOMEN.CA.

Canadian Centre for Disability Studies (CCDS-List)
Based at the University of Manitoba, the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies provides an email bulletin of updates on their research activities covering a wide range of disability issues, including employment, training, and education.
To subscribe: Visit their website at www.escape.ca/~ccds, scroll down to the very bottom of the page, and enter your email address in the subscribe-to box.

CDMAJOR
A Communications Disorder discussion list based in the United States.
To join: Send the message "sub CDMAJOR your name" to listserv@listserv.kent.edu.

CED-NET
A worldwide discussion group of Community Economic Development participants.
To subscribe: Send a message to MAJORDOMO@SFU.CA with a blank subject line and SUBSCRIBE CED-NET as the only text.
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Contact Point Bulletin | Contact Point Flash
Contact Point is a Canadian website dedicated to the professional needs of career counsellors. Their Bulletin is a quarterly on-line newsletter that keeps career and employment counsellors, career information specialists and career development practitioners up-to-date on issues that affect them. Contact Point Flash is a monthly update.
To subscribe: Visit their website at www.contactpoint.ca/html/Counnews.html.

Cross-Cultural Psychology Discussion List (C-PSYCH)
To join: Send the message "sub C-PSYCH your name" to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu.

DISCAREE
A list dealing with higher education and career issues for students with disabilities.
To join: Send the message "sub DISCAREE your name" to listserv@vm.marist.edu.

GRANITE
A list about Gender and New Information and Communication Technologies.
To join: Send the message "sub GRANITE your name" to listserv@nic.surfnet.nl.

GST-L
The Ontario Colleges Generic Skills Taskforce list.
To join: Send the message "sub GST-L your name" to listserv@admin.humberc.on.ca.

HHSBLD-L
A list for the HHS Visually Impaired Internet Review Group.
To join: Send the message "sub HHSBLD-L your name" to listserv@list.nih.gov.

ITI-Update
The HRDC Interactive Training Inventory (ITI) is a free, online database of training courses and information. Education or training providers can register their programs, and individuals searching for training can search by a number of criteria. The ITI-Update bulletin provides periodic updates about new additions to the site, as well as the status of the project as a whole.
To subscribe: Visit the Possibilities Project website at www.possibilitiesproject.com/iti/index.htm.

INTERCUL
Studies intercultural communication.
To join: Send the message "sub INTERCUL your name" to listserv@vm.its.rpi.edu.

Internet Tourbus
A "guided tour" of the internet. It's written in a casual, non-jargony style. You get a new installment each Tuesday and Thursday.
To subscribe: Send a message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.AOL.COM with the command SUBSCRIBE TOURBUS FIRSTNAME LASTNAME in the body of the message, replacing FIRSTNAME and LASTNAME with your actual name. You'll get a message from LISTSERV within minutes asking you to confirm your subscription. Just follow the simple instructions in that message, and you're on the Bus!

IOOBF-L
An Industrial Psychology Forum.
To join: Send the message "sub IOOBF-L your name" to listserv@uga.cc.uga.edu.

LDWOMEN
A list for adult women with learning disabilities. Its purpose is to provide a forum for women with learning disabilities to connect and share ideas, knowledge, and support.
To subscribe: Send the message "SUBSCRIBE LDWOMEN Your Name" to LISTSERV@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU.

LEARNER
Intended to enable adult learners to communicate with each other.
To join: Send an e-mail message to: listserv@nysernet.org. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message type: subscribe learner yourfirstname yourlastname

LITERACY
A general adult literacy electronic list.
To join: Send an e-mail message to: listserv@nysernet.org. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message type: subscribe literacy yourfirstname yourlastname.
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MAC-WOMEN
A Macintosh help forum for women only, designed "to provide women who are Mac experts a chance to share their knowledge, and to provide women who are Mac users a comfortable, low-volume forum for learning more about all things macintosh."
To subscribe: Send the one-word message SUBSINGLE (for regular version) or SUBSCRIBE (for digest version) to MAC-WOMEN-REQUEST@LISTS1.BEST.COM.

MAIDEN-L
Designed for women new to the Internet, who need a helping hand. Both those who are feeling lost and those who know the Internet well enough to be helpful are encouraged to join.
To subscribe: Send the message SUBSCRIBE MAIDEN-L to MAJORDOMO@WOMEN.CA.

New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL-NET)
New Approaches to Lifelong Learning (NALL) unites university academics and partners from a variety of sectors including labour, cooperatives, business and community groups, to examine informal learning in a broad variety of spheres.
To subscribe: Send the message "subscribe nall-net your email address" to Majordomo@tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca.

News-Nouvelles-TFL
Offered by the Labour Education and Training Research Network, based at York University, this public email list contains news items, research, and other material related to training.
To subscribe: Send a message "subscribe News-Nouvelles- TFL Your Name" to listserv@yorku.ca, leaving the subject line blank.

OCCE-L
A list for Ontario College Career Educators.
To subscribe: Send the message "sub OCCE-L your name" to listserv@admin.humberc.on.ca.
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ONTCC-L
A list for Counsellors in Ontario Community Colleges.
To join: Send the message "sub ONTCC-L your name" to listserv@admin.humberc.on.ca.

PANDORAZ
A moderated list focusing on "the social aspects of women, design and the Internet." Representative topics: "telework, the hierarchy of administration in web page design, access to web pages, and choice of graphic versus text pages."
To subscribe: Send the message SUBSCRIBE PANDORAZ to LISTSERV@MORGAN.UCS.MUN.CA.

ROCK - Between a Rock and a Workplace
This running discussion on workplace issues gives participant a chance to pose career challenges, whether they're personally facing them or they're happening to a friend, or they read about them in the newspaper and thought other folks would be interested.
To subscribe: Send an email to listserv@rt66.com containing the line "subscribe rock YOUR FULL NAME"

RURALWOMYN
A rural feminist activist forum. Presently, membership is restricted to women living/working in rural areas. The list hopes to build networks of women who are isolated from each other geographically and culturally. Discussions involve topics such as grassroots organizing, rural projects, domestic violence, sexual assault, women's health, welfare reform, legislation, etc.
To join: Send the message "SUBSCRIBE RURALWOMYN Your Email Address" to MAJORDOMO@PLAINS.NET.

SAWNET (South Asian Women's Net)
A discussion group for women from the south asian countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) as well as women from other parts of the world interested in the concerns of south asian women. This forum is open only to women.
To subscribe: Visit the web site at http://www.sawnet.org/.

TESL-L
A list for ESL teachers, worldwide.
To subscribe: Send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, type: SUB TESL-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname

TESLIT-L
A list of ESL Literacy teachers, worldwide.
To subscribe: You must first subscribe to TESL-L (see above). Then, send an e-mail message to: LISTSERV@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU. Leave the subject line blank. In the body type: SUB TESLIT-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname

toronto-ced-l
Offered by the Toronto CED Learning Network, this weekly email bulletin contains information about community economic development in Toronto. Distributed every Friday.
To subscribe: Send an email to cednetwork@cspc.toronto.on.ca asking to be included on the list.

WE-ARE-BWCONNECTED (We Are Business Women Connected)
Formed to foster communication, connection, and growth in a positive and accepting atmosphere for all business women or women interested in getting involved in business.
To subscribe: Send the one-word message JOIN to WE-ARE-BWCONNECTED-REQUEST@THEWEBDEPOT.COM.

WEC-L (Workplace Education Collaborative List)
To subscribe: Send an e-mail message to: majordomo@intac.com. Skip the message headers. In the body of the message type (only): subscribe wec-l

WMOMS
Originally focused on issues affecting working mothers, but it now includes working fathers as well. Among the issues discussed are balancing work and family, daycare and babysitting arrangements, the "mommy track," expressing breast milk at work, sharing work/child responsibilities, etc.
To subscribe: Send the message SUBSCRIBE WMOMS to MAJORDOMO@WORLD.STD.COM.

WORKink Newsletter
WORKink is a virtual employment resource centre directed by Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work. The WORKink Newsletter is a monthly digest of new additions to their website, events, and job-finding resources.
To subscribe: Send the message "subscribe" to newsletter@ccrw.org.

Updated September 11, 2000
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