Jeff & Brock, I don't think there's any "rule" that disallows anyone
from joining the listserv.  From my own point of view, though
(admittedly prejudiced), I've never encouraged students to join.  I
have thought about having them do so and ask questions about certain
subjects that have come up in class discussions.  But I finally
decided that would change the nature of the listserv .  It might make
it just a Grammar Answer Person for student questions.  Perhaps ATEG
would want to have such a listserv in place.  But I wonder if most
ATEG members would really want the present listserv to become that
Answer Person.  Encouraging students to join would also produce a
large number of people who left the listserv every semester, mostly
without signing off.  We'd never know how many real users there were.

Honestly, I don't know.  I'm not sure whether any of these things
would be terrible consequences. But we probably should discuss the
issues before we go ahead with such a move.  I'd like to see the
listserv grow, for many of the reasons Brock suggests.  But I
hesitate about encouraging students to join.  "Hesitate" is the
crucial word here.  I ain't at all sure. Max

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>Someone should correct me if I am wrong, but I believe people can subscribe
>to the listserv without being ATEG members.  I think it is very important
>that we encourage prospective teachers to do so.  Because the broad, utopian
>changes in grammar curriculum and teacher education that listservers are
>discussing will take place slowly at best, one of the few short-term ways we
>can support the teaching of grammar is to provide teachers with an easily
>available listserv and website where they can go for questions and ideas.
>The listserv seems to keep two kinds of threads going most of the time:
>discussions of the broad issues, and queeries and responses about a grammar
>item.  Both are valuable.  And tips about specific strategies for teaching,
>though rarer, are very precious.  ATEG's opportunity (one of them) is to
>offer teachers the easiest access possible to what they want so they can
>integrate grammar into the classroom. The listserv has the potential to help
>do that.
>
>
>Brock Haussamen
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: JEFF GLAUNER
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>Sent: 6/9/00 11:30 AM
>Subject: Who can subscribe to the listserv?
>
>I'm newly active on the listserv even though I've been in ATEG for a
>while.
>What is the rule about who can subscribe to the listserv?  Can my
>college
>grammar students (mostly elementary and secondary teaching candidates)
>get
>on it without joining ATEG?
>
>Jeff Glauner
>Park University

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