Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h68Mm8C07706; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 18:48:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <000901c345a2$efb65bb0$1a01a8c0@cccchs.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Sylvan Rainwater" <sylvan@cccchs.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9125] RE: FW: [AAACE-NLA] Adult Literacy: What's Hot and What's Not X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 2242 Lines: 61 -----Original Message----- From: nifl-esl@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-esl@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Lynda Terrill Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:31 AM -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Sticht [mailto:tsticht@znet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:23 PM To: aaace-nla@lists.literacytent.org July 1, 2003 Adult Literacy: What's Hot and What's Not in 2003? Tom Sticht <SNIP> >> The foregoing 7 lists include two which were at one time very active. In 1999 the Learning Disabilities list posted some 1161 messages, or about 6.4 messages per day. If the present rate of postings stays constant, the LD list will post only 76 messages in 2003, a dramatic fall from 1999. Why has LD dropped so much? *** My guess about most of these topics that have dropped is that they have been incorporated into other lists. I know I've seen LD postings, for example, in the last few days on another list. *** I know that for me, I'm on 4 lists (all in the top list), and just really don't want to be on more, even though they address topics of interest to me. For many people being on 1 list is a lot. I'm not sure that having separate lists for many of these topics is useful, and I'm guessing that's why they are underutilized. <SNIP> >> The ESL list continues to rack up high postings as it has for over 5 years. *** Well, of course. Many of us teach ESL. We don't *just* teach ESL -- we are also involved with assessment, with technology, with LD, with putting research into practice, with issues of poverty and race, and other things. I would rather discuss those things on one list, and put them into the context of teaching ESL, than to have to join a separate list where the issues are considered in isolation. *** I think the issue becomes what is a reasonable focus for an e-mail list? When is it too broad and when is it too narrow? It doesn't mean that people have no interest in a particular topic, but that it is perhaps too narrow to sustain a list-wide interest on its own. The lists I've joined are lists that I hope will address issues that I run across in my own practice. Sylvan Rainwater . mailto:sylvan@cccchs.org Family Literacy Coordinator Clackamas County Children's Commission/Head Start Oregon City, Oregon
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