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* K-12 HISTORY
HOSTED BY THE EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND "NetHappenings" ©1989 WAS THE FIRST AND OLDEST
K -12 EDUCATION MAILING LIST PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNET
Gleason Sackmann and Karen Ellis

Nethappenings distributes announcements primarily focused on events effecting the net and K12 Education with the emphasis placed on both news and resources. For Media, Business, Government, K12 Teacher,Administrator, Librarian, Ed Tech, or Parent.
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ABOUT GLEASON SACKMANN Internet Pioneer
First to wire North Dakota's K-16 schools to the internet retires in 2004. -
1998 awarded SIG/Tel Educational Telecomputing Outstanding Service Award.
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1996 rated #10 on Newsweek's prestigious List of "50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." Newsweek, Dec 25, 1995 / Jan. 1, 1996\
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Began listening to shortwave broadcasts in 1956.
20 YEARS LATER 1989 - 2009 YOU CAN NOW START USING
2.0 Social Media Ways To Get The Info PDF
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed.
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.”
1) NetHappenings Mailing List STARTED ©1989:
Nethappenings distributes announcements primarily focused on events effecting the net and K12 Education with the emphasis placed on both news and resources. For Media, Business, Government, K12 Teacher, Administrator, Librarian, Ed Tech, or Parent.
2) K12 Newsletters Mailing List
Has been provided to the Internet community since April, 1998, and is an off-shoot of the Net-happenings mailing list and Website. The goal of K12 NEWSLETTERS is to combine in one place the best of the Internet's various K12 newsletters that integrate technology into the classroom.
3) Network Newsletters Mailing List:
Has been provided to the Internet since May, 1994, and is an off-shoot of the Net-happenings mailing list. The goal of Network Newsletters is to combine in one place the best of the Internet's regularly published e-zines, allowing users to read or browse all or none of them from the same mailing list or Website. Readers keep current on various aspects of Internet development,security, and technology can choose to subscribe to the mailing list, which sends two or more newsletters together in digest format.
Gleason Explains:
What's a Mailing List? " A Primer"
DOES YOUR SCHOOL OR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE A WEBSITE?
A Master Registry of K-12 Schools started in 1993.
MORE K-12 HISTORY ON THE CYBERPLAYGROUND
The School Directory was the first internet resource that started it all in 1993.
ADD YOUR SCHOOL site to the historic internet resource now!
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If your school has a website please put it in the registry which is organized by state and by grade level. The registry also includes sites for school districts, state and regional education organizations, and state departments of education, charter schools, virtual schools, state standards, and state administrators.
Webmasters Please UPDATE your 'OLD' links from the following:
- http://toons.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu/~sackmann/k12.htm
- http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/k12
- http://www.gsn.org/hotlist/
- http://rrnet.com/~gleason/k12.html
- http://www.classroom.com/Community/connection/states.jhtm




