List-servs as community glue

Going along with the theme for this week, I'm thinking about how list-servs serve as social glue. If you read list-serv messages on a daily basis you get a sense of being part of a group of people who share a common interest. Some of my students have been posting to the ed-tech list-serv, and they continue to receive responses. Someone responded today to Steph's query about SmartBoards that she posted more than a week ago. Online learning has been discussed on this list lately and David Dillard posted a bibliography of articles about students' assessments of their online learning experience. This entry would be a useful resource for our wiki. Another list I'm on is Kathy Scrock's "site of the school days." She sends a weekly email that links to an intresting educational website. This week's site is gcast which is a site that will host mp3 files and let you make a podcast by telephone. Sounds like Odeo.