Chat site and lesson plan collection. An on-line chat forum for teachers. 

Free chat program to download. You can select your setting so that you choose who is on your chat list. A good program for communicating with long distance students and solving technical problems with colleagues. 

A free chat program to download. This program is used by many list servers and chat sites. 

An archival site of lesson plans. Includes chat rooms and on-line bulletin boards by subject area for teachers using mIRC. Guest visitors who lead professional discussions are regular highlights.

 For teacher-librarians: A caution- there can be up to 100 messages a day during the school year. However, it is worth weeding through the messages to harvest valuable sources and contacts. You can also receive the messages in digest form. The LM_NET archive can be searched at LM_NET Archive

• LM_NET Wiki Annex
  This space is used to SHARE--files, images, lessons, handouts, rubrics, presentations, etc.--anything that doesn't fit on the listserv. Use of this space demonstrate how teacher-librarians can use new landscapes to create serious professional tools.

For teachers and computer site administrators: Messages are moderated. The topics include computer technical queries, computer program suggestions, activities and lesson plans for computer use.

Child_Lit is an unmoderated discussion group convened for the express purpose of examining the theory and criticism of literature for children and young adults.

Lesson plans, teaching ideas, on-line newsletter, and listerver for Information Literacy strategies. Read about their electronic discussion group. Sign up information can be found here.

Start your own discussion group or on-line newsletter.

A location for on-line discussion.

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with the web, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.  You will need to download this program to your server.