Info Exchange

Think Tank

Mutual Help

Sharing....
ideas, work experiences, readings, professional gossip... even problems!

For the ChatBoard,
click here (1^st time user)
- or - here . (regular user)

Developing....
the concept of learning languages as culture as a new FLT* paradigm
(*Foreign Language Teaching)

For the Idea Bank,
click here

Cooperating....
on materials, projects, papers to make the concept real to all (colleagues, employers...)

For the List of Projects
and Papers-in-progress,
click here

Progress report on collaboration (for the SIETAR-Europa Board): click here

Return to this page quickly and effortlessly next time. For details: click here

To e-mail all members of the Group "Language as Culture": click here
An e-mail will appear, addressed to all members. If it doesn't, click here .
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Use this method or the ChatBoard to communicate with the entire Group.
Avoid using old e-mails even if they have worked before: addresses change.

ChatBoard? E-mail? How to communicate with the entire Group?

To communicate with the entire Group, you can use any of these methods:

 1. sending an e-mail message to all Group members by clicking above;
           NOTE: When you click above, your computer's e-mail program opens and a
         blank e-mail automatically appears, pre-addressed to the entire Group.
 2. posting a message on the ChatBoard for all Group members;
           NOTE: When you write a message on the ChatBoard, everyone in the Group
         also gets a copy by e-mail, automatically.
 3. REPLYing to an e-mail sent from the ChatBoard.
          NOTE: When you REPLY to an e-mail containing a message posted on the
         ChatBoard, your REPLY automatically appears on the ChatBoard as if you
         had written it there yourself; in addition, a copy is e-mailed to everyone in
         the Group (as with Method 2).

Thus the three methods are similar in that, with each of them, your message is sent automatically by e-mail to all current Group members at their most recent e-mail addresses. This is better than addressing an e-mail to the Group by hand (you can make mistakes) or using an old e-mail previously sent to the Group (addresses change frequently and you may no longer have the most up-to-date list). There is, however, an important difference among the three methods: two are public and one is private.

Method 2. and Method 3.: In addition to being e-mailed, your message is stored on the ChatBoard as part of the permanent archive. This means that SIETAR-Europa members who wish to see the themes that our Project Group is discussing, can visit the SE website at any time, read our ChatBoard archive, and learn about our projects. They can even SUBSCRIBE to the ChatBoard e-mail list and thus receive copies of all messages posted, just as Group members do. In other words, with Methods 2 and 3 your ChatBoard and e-mail messages become public documents: each and every SIETAR member can read them.

Method 1 (using the "click here" button above): Your e-mail goes only to the members of the Group whose names appear at the bottom of this page. In other words, your correspondence remains private (restricted).

-- Normally you should prefer using the ChatBoard (Methods 2 or 3 ) and avoid restricted e-mailing (Method 1 ). There are many advantages in allowing all SIETAR members to follow our activities: some members may decide to join our Group, others may give us useful feedback, others yet may contribute to spreading throughout SIETAR the ideas we discuss. There is also a practical advantage: if you use Methods 2 and 3 , your correspondence gets archived for you automatically, without taking up precious space on your computer. You simply leave a message on the ChatBoard (Method 2 ) or REPLY to a ChatBoard e-mail (Method 3 ) and then delete your REPLY. And when you receive a flood of e-mails with the latest ChatBoard postings, you just read them and delete them: no clutter, no archiving. If you should ever need to reread old messages, you'll always find them in the ChatBoard archive on-line.