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Educational CyberPlayGround Community
"NetHappenings" ©1989
THE FIRST AND OLDEST
K -12 ED MAILING LIST IN THE WORLD
* K-12 HISTORY PUBLISHED ON THE INTERNET
HOSTED BY THE EDUCATIONAL CYBERPLAYGROUND, INC.
Gleason Sackmann "NetHappenings" starts in ©1989
#10 on Newsweek's prestigious List of "50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet." Newsweek, Dec 25, 1995 / Jan. 1, 1996
Karen Ellis
on the net since 1991, has kept K12 Internet History going since 2000. She continues to distribute NetHappenings which is 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.
One reason this community formed is purely out of necessity. We're social creatures with shared core values, that's why we connect. If folks have a problem with their school, administration, kids, internet, or technology they often find themselves turning to CyberPlayGround community members and RingLeaders for help, making the bonds between us stronger. There's this feeling that you're part of something special, which ties into the sense of "we-ness." We aren't mainstream, we are marching to a different drum, and we understand something that not everyone else can understand. We know something the others don't.
ABOUT GLEASON SACKMANN Internet Pioneer
First to wire North Dakota's K-16 schools to the internet who retired in 2004.
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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.
22 YEARS LATER . . . . . 1989 - 2011
Email is still the most used application
JOIN US -- GET INFO IN YOUR EMAIL
1) NetHappenings Mailing List
NETHAPPENINGS IS THE FIRST K12 EDUCATION LIST IN AMERICA IN OPERATION SINCE 1989
THIS EMAIL LIST distributes announcements primarily focused on events effecting the net and K12 Education with the emphasis placed on both news and resources.
For NEWS Media, Business, Government, K12 Teacher, Administrator, Librarian, Ed Tech, and 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.
"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed." BIG MEDIA
WHAT IS A MAILING LIST?
Gleason Explains:
What's a Mailing List? " A Primer"
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! DOES YOUR SCHOOL OR SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE A WEBSITE?
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
What is the dream?
Almost every great community has a shared passion, dream, or purpose. What great thing could this community accomplish?
The core energy of the community drives the community forward in good times and bad. Call it a dream, a purpose, a mission, a raison d'etre, whatever you like, but identify it quickly and then work collaboratively to ensure everyone shares in it.
What are the legends?
Great communities have stories and legends that provide color to the mission. In my experience it is extremely hard to effectively capture passion in the words of a mission or purpose statement.
But passion comes through clearly in stories. A picture is worth a thousand words, and if a picture of the mission can be painted through a story, it will become even more real to members and potential members.
What are the values?
In most cases communities emerge from a group of individuals who find they share not just a common purpose, but a common set of values. Sometimes community efforts fail because, although members share a common mission, they disagree on how it should be accomplished. Often, these differences can be traced back to differences in the personal values of the members.
Figuring out if there are common values within the community will help potential members decide for themselves whether they are a good fit for the community. If their values do not match the community values, they will opt out on their own.
BTW Using email to share feedback only goes so far. It's a great tool for communication, but not so much for collaboration, sharing, and transparency. Avoiding email for feedback might actually help employees do their jobs.