Discussion Groups
Social Education Victoria provides email-based discussion groups for its members. The current discussion groups available are:
sev-ip-1-2 : International Politics, Units 1 & 2
sev-is-3-4: International Studies, Units 3 & 4
sev-np-3-4: National Politics, Units 3 & 4
sev-soc: Sociology, Units 1-4
To join, please send your membership number, name, organisation, email address and the name of the discussion group you wish to join to loretta.glass @ social education victoria.If you have an idea for a new discussion group, email Loretta to see if we can set it up for you.
If you are interested and not yet a member, sign up for membership now.
What are discussion groups?
Email-based discussion groups (also known as mailing lists or listservs) are cheap and effective ways of communicating ideas and news among people with similar interests quickly and widely.
Using email to communicate is not only easy to use, but you also do not have to be online at the same time as all the other members in order to receive messages. Best of all, discussion groups are almost always free!
How do discussion groups work?
Joining a list
Contributing to a list
Digests
Internet etiquette (Netiquette)
Leaving a list
Joining a list
With SEV's discussion groups (hosted by EdNA), you can subscribe by emailing SEV. You will then be registered and shortly after you will receive an email message welcoming you to the list.
Contributing to a list
Once you are subscribed, you will start receiving email messages from other members on the list. Many people like to 'lurk' when they first join a list (that is, they just read the messages without contributing any themselves).
Once you feel comfortable with the types of messages and information that get posted, you might feel happy to start to contribute your own ideas and news or simply ask questions that hopefully other members will be able to answer.
Be aware that the email address you use to subscribe and unsubscribe to the list is different from the one you use to post messages to the list. For example, for the International Studies group, you subscribe via loretta.glass @ social education victoria but you post your messages to sev-is-3-4@edna.edu.au.
When you post a message to the mailing list address or reply to another member's message, every person on the mailing list will receive your message.
Digests
You may find that receiving messages from the group as they are sent might be overwhelming or that it interrupts your daily work. You can choose to just receive a digest, which is a message which collates all the messages received in one day.
For example, in the International Studies group, members can choose to receive a digest by sending an email to: lyris @ edna with the message: set sev-is-3-4 digest.
Internet etiquette (Netiquette)
Remember, you should never post any message that you would not be willing to send to your boss! Mailing list messages are public and legal documents which are easily archived, copied and forwarded to others. In addition, offensive or irrelevant comments may see you removed from a list.
Leaving a list
If you decide that a list isn't for you after all, you can easily leave either via email or by emailing the list administrator. For example, for the International Studies group, you would send a message to: lyris @ edna with: unsubscribe vasst-is-3-4 in the body of the message. You should NOT send such messages to the group email address (in this case, sev-is-3-4@edna.edu.au).
