The Node offers discussion and collaboration for secondary and post-secondary instructors with a special emphasis on technology development. Teachers.net is a finely orchestrated hub using chatrooms, message boards, live meetings and conferences, job chatboards, teacher mailrings, and the new Teachers.net Web Ring. As educators become more proficient on-line, these communities will continue to grow and diversify. They are defined by the fact that they form around specific topics or common interests, and they thrive on the input of all those in the group. SIGs that do not have active participation from a wide range of members whither and eventually disappear.
Educators tend to be very active participants in the SIGs they join.
There are a number of SIGs that have grown geometrically over the past five years as teachers have taken to the Internet. This site brings together educators through mailing lists, teacher pages, and a teacher message board as well as providing family pages, a family message board, articles, and calendars. Educational Mailing Lists for Teachers Put together by the San Francisco Unified School District, this is one of the most exhaustive listings of educational listservs on the Web. This site offers links to a number of different intriguing places on the Web of particular interest to teachers. This open discussion list is for teachers and students of English language arts.