From gnu@toad.com Wed Mar 24 01:24:39 1993 Received: from toad.com by fido.wps.com (5.67/1.34) id AA01805; Wed, 24 Mar 93 01:24:33 -0800 Received: from localhost by toad.com id AA12741; Wed, 24 Mar 93 01:26:38 PST Message-Id: <9303240926.AA12741@toad.com> To: tomj@fido.wps.com, pozar@toad.com Subject: [Dave Farber: FYI: Big Sky Telegraph/Internet (from COSNDISC) (fwd)] Date: Wed, 24 Mar 93 01:26:37 -0800 From: gnu@toad.com Status: OR ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu Return-Path: Received: from linc.cis.upenn.edu ([130.91.6.8]) by toad.com id AA02250; Tue, 23 Mar 93 13:45:55 PST Received: from AURORA.CIS.UPENN.EDU by linc.cis.upenn.edu id AA29388; Tue, 23 Mar 93 16:39:50 -0500 Received: from PCPOND.CIS.UPENN.EDU by linc.cis.upenn.edu id AA29208; Tue, 23 Mar 93 16:37:11 -0500 Posted-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:37:04 -0500 X-Mailer: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1 Message-Id: <9303231637.AA04797@pcpond.cis.upenn.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1993 16:37:04 -0500 From: Dave Farber To: interesting_people@aurora.cis.upenn.edu Subject: FYI: Big Sky Telegraph/Internet (from COSNDISC) (fwd) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1993 16:20:34 -0700 >From: Frank Odasz To: Multiple recipients of list COSNDISC Subject: Big Sky Telegraph/Internet >>>>--BIG SKY TELEGRAPH has arrived on the Internet!--> Telnet to 192.231.192.1 or bigsky.bigsky.dillon.mt.us Type bbs at login. Self-register and explore! <<<>>> EVERYONE is WELCOME to come visit! We're always looking for K12 resources, expertise, and innovative project ideas to collect and disseminate. We have 600 K12 lessonplans available for the taking, though we'd prefer to TRADE resources. To help us spread the word about affordable rural telecomputing options, you're invited to subscribe for FULL access for $50/year per individual. Please limit visitations to 20 minutes at a time as our system risks being overwhelmed by the volume of those accessing BST via the Internet. Please report any access problems to franko@bigsky.dillon.mt.us (Frank Odasz, Director of BST.) Western Montana College 710 S. Atlantic, Dillon, MT 59725 Voice: 406-683-7338, Fax: 406-683-7493, Modem: 406-683-7680 - - BST serves as a Global K12 Telecurricular Clearinghouse for projects running on all networks we learn of. See the Kidsnet files area. You're invited to upload your projects directly to our list! - - BST serves as a clearinghouse on Community Networking models using free, local, bbs networks for scaleable public access to Internet email, (and coming soon: ftp mail, gopher mail and wais mail.) BST will soon offer FTP and gopher services. See the Class files area for Community Networking essays, and more about BST, feel free to upload any offerings you might have! - - BST serves as an ACTION-ORIENTED Rural Telecomputing Testbed, ready to customize and implement innovative ideas, projects, and PARTNERSHIPS! - - BST can technically share Internet newsgroups with Community BBSes as Fidonet echo conferences, and visa versa. Internet email is also exchanged with Community BBS networks, allowing ubiquity for teaching online courses, despite the connectivity model. - - BST offers an online course "Microcomputer Telecommunications" covering the basics of telecomputing and modem use, on a limited budget, for connection to any of 60,000+ systems nationally. Frank Odasz is a board member of the Consortium for School Networking and chair of the CoSN Professional Development Committee, and is SPECIFICALLY interested in collecting information on online teaching, and in working with others that are teaching online to share information and resources. The following files are particularly recommended for those interested in models for low-cost school/community networks with Internet email and distributed conferencing capabilities. See the Class files area on BST. Affordable Internet email options DO exist! 1. Nation - A Scaleable National Network Model, By David R. Hughes 2. Community - Community Networking, By Frank Odasz 3. Testimony - Testimony on available options for Senate, (Odasz) 4. Appropriate - Appropriate and Distributed, By David R. Hughes 5. ComSci - Community Science Networks, By Frank Odasz 6. Inn - Innkeeping in Cyberspace, By John Coates >>>>--And many, many more...for you to share broadly!!--> - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gleason Sackman, Coordinator BBS: sackman@sendit.nodak.edu SENDIT - NoDak's K-12 Telcom Network Internet: sackman@plains.nodak.edu 226 IACC, North Dakota State University Bitnet: sackman@plains.bitnet Fargo, ND 58105 Voice: (701)237-8109 Fax: (701)237-8541 - ------ End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message