Unfortunately, Sohia's URL (and variants of it) all yield "network
errors" on my machine.
Returning to Tim O'Donnell's question, "LISTSERV" is a trademark of
L-Soft for software that manages electronic mailing lists, although
the term is sometimes used in a generic sense (as, e.g., xerox).
For information on mailing lists managed by LISTSERV, go to
CataList at <http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html>, and click on "Search
for a mailing list of interest."
A search at the above URL for lists whose name (XYZ-L), host name
(LISTSERV.XYZ.EDU) and/or title ("Central America Discussion List")
matches "chemistry" yielded 72 hits, but the only list obviously
devoted to chemistry education appears to be:
CHEMED-L@MAILER.UWF.EDU
Chemistry Education Discussion List (982 subscribers)
The address for messages to that list is <CHEMED-L@MAILER.UWF.EDU>.
If you wish to subscribe try this (Bill Halpern - please correct me
if I'm wrong): Send a one-line message to <LISTSERV@UWF.EDU>:
SUBSCRIBE CHEMED-L your first name your last name
Unfortunately, Chemed-L has no homepage with directions for
subscribing, and for reasons unknown to me prefers NOT to utilize the
marvelous LISTSERV archive software used by valuable lists such as,
e.g., PHYSHARE, Phys-L, PhysLrnR, STLHE-L, Biopi-L, AERA-D, POD, and
Dr-Ed (1).
One may search the archives of those lists by author, subject, key
word(s), date, and combinations of those and thereby "move beyond
forums for exchanging tidbits and opinions, to structures which
rapidly capture knowledge-value and foster rapid accumulation and
growth of a community's capability . . . tools to allow contributors
to share partially completed resources, and enable others to improve
upon them."(3).
Chemed-L does, however have a very primitive "threaded archive" at
<http://www.optc.com/chemed-l-thread>. But try, for example, to
search for "critical thinking."
According to Dan MacIsaac,(2) among other companies in the electronic
mailing list software business are LISTPROC, Majordomo, Mailstorm,
ListStar, LetterRip, and AutoShare. At least some of these companies
probably have search capabilities comparable to Catalist. One might
point a web search engine such as Google <http://www.google.com/>
towards, e.g., LISTPROC.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
24245 Hatteras Street, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
<rrhake@earthlink.net> http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake
REFERENCES
1. R.R. Hake, "Using the Web to Promote Interdisciplinary Synergy in
Undergraduate Education Reform," AAPT Announcer 30(4), 120 (2000).
Soon to be on the web at <http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake/>.
2. D.L. MacIsaac, "Communities of on-line physics educators. The
Physics Teacher 38(4), 210-213 (2000). Online at the Phys-L homepage
<http://purcell.phy.nau.edu/phys-l/>.
3. J. Roschelle and R. Pea, "Trajectories from Today's WWW to a
Powerful Educational Infrastructure," Educational Researcher,
June-July 1999, 22-25, 43.