About the
echalk email list
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Echalk is an email discussion list concerned broadly with professional development and curriculum issues in information technology for schools, including but not limited to, use of the Internet and other computer and network based technological innovations. The focus for echalk membership is Western Australian primary and secondary schools, to avoid overlapping with the hundreds of Internet lists operating for schools and teachers in many parts of the world.
Initiated by the Teaching and Learning Centre at Murdoch University in December 1994 on the host cleo.murdoch.edu.au, echalk supports the activities of the Educational Computing Association of WA (ECAWA). In August 2002 echalk migrated to a new server hosted by the Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC) at Curtin University of Technology. In January 2005, echalk migrated again, to a listserver hosted by EdNA, as a part of EdNA's service Collaborative Tools and Groups.
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Please use echalk to communicate with other teachers who are using the Internet for professional development, curriculum projects, classroom activities and many other topics, in the context of IT issues faced by Western Australian schools. Echalk is intended to be your local and regional interchange on the info superhighway, and we hope that participation is both beneficial and enjoyable!
Subscriptions to echalk are free and are welcomed from any teachers, schools and related organisations, particularly (though not exclusively) in Western Australia. The echalk list is "open" (any Internet user may subscribe) and "unmoderated" (postings go immediately to all subscribers without being subjected to list owner approval). To subscribe to the list, email the following message from your normal email handler, to the server address (not to the echalk list address):
| To: | join-echalk@edna.edu.au |
| Subject: | (leave empty) |
| Text: | (leave empty) |
| (and that's it, just the address "join-echalk@edna.edu.au" in the "To:" field. If you have a signature file in your email handler, turn it off, or insert several blank lines, though that's not essential) | |
After you have subscribed, you are able to send email to all subscribers to the echalk list, by emailing to its address:
echalk@edna.edu.auTo unsubscribe, send a blank email to the 'leave-echalk' address given to you at the end of each list posting that you receive (not to the echalk list address). For example (where you have to obtain the correct digits and letters for 'yourspecialnumber' from a list posting to you):
| To: | leave-echalk-yourspecialnumber@edna.edu.au |
| Subject: | (leave empty) |
| Text: | (leave empty) |
| (and that's it, just the address "leave-echalk-yourspecialnumber@edna.edu.au" in the "To:" field. If you have a signature file in your email handler, turn it off, or insert several blank lines, though that's not essential) | |
Please do not post long messages or large attachments. An upper limit of 20 kB is reasonable for text and attached file (if any). For large items, it is more appropriate to post a brief summary or description to the list, giving a web site address to enable those who are interested to access the materials in full. Messages in plain text are preferred, owing to the tendency for some kinds of html encoded messages to incur very high overheads in their formatting tags. As to the content of your postings - please take care, in posting to this list, you are "speaking in public"!
To: lyris@edna.edu.auFor example, this command will return all messages in the date range 2 February 2006 to 4 February 2006
(leave subject line empty, enter a 'get echalk' command in the body text)
get echalk yyyymmdd-yyyymmdd
(where first yyyymmdd is the starting date and second is the ending date for applying the get command. Note that a 'get' command is emailed to lyris, not to echalk. Do not use a date range exceeding 5-10 days because the aggregate volume may become large.)
get echalk 20060202-20060205