alice-teacher Do we need to be moderated?

[Wanda Dann]

I, personally, wish to offer a huge "thanks" to Don for monitoring this 
list.

The primary motivation for monitoring the list is not to "police" but 
instead to provide a
place where Alice teachers and parents can share ideas and ask questions 
with the expectation
that their questions will be answered promptly but their mailbox will 
not be overwhelmed.

We are aware that when educators post a question, it is often 
"time-critical" in that they need to get an answer,
suggestion, or idea quickly (preferably before they have to meet their 
students in the next class session).

We value the Alice community and very much want to enable teachers to 
"talk" and "help" each other.
We give the community first priority in posting answers or suggestions 
when a question is posted.
If, after a few hours however, a question hasn't been answered by 
another member of the list, Don will
answer it.

In rare instances when Don doesn't  immediately know an answer to  a 
question, he will
seek assistance from another member of the Alice project team. If it's a 
bug, he will send it along
to the development team to be debugged.

Bravo, Don.

Wanda


On 8/23/2012 2:38 PM, Don Slater wrote:
> You are right, everyone who participates on the list has been very 
> professional, and I have enjoyed the quality of everyone's 
> participation. I have rarely had to "police" any posting because it 
> was inappropriate or unprofessional. Primarily I am watching for these 
> things:
>
> 1) Automatic replies from email systems when someone has gone on 
> vacation or their email address has changed for some reason and the 
> message is "bounced back".
>
> 2) Inappropriate commercial solicitations
>
> 3) We do not post the login / password to www,aliceprogramming.net 
> <http://aliceprogramming.net> on this site, at the request of Steve 
> Cooper, who administers that site.
>
> 4) Someone will announce that they have a set of resources that they 
> are willing to share. This generally generates a flood of "Could I 
> have a copy of that as well?" When that happens I will try and ask 
> people to direct those requests directly to the source instead of 
> replying to the list.
>
> Generally almost anything else goes, and I appreciate that the 
> community makes the task relatively easy and enjoyable.
>
> Thank you,
> Don Slater
>
> On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:26 PM, "Gamez, Enrique A (172B)" 
> <enrique.a.gamez at jpl.nasa.gov <mailto:enrique.a.gamez at jpl.nasa.gov>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Alice list moderators,
>>
>> From what I can see, most people on the Alice list seem to be 
>> professional educators -- I being the exception.  Why then do you 
>> feel this list needs to be "moderated" (I.e. policed)?  How often 
>> does an innapropriate post come along from this esteemed group?  In 
>> my view, the decision to moderate is  unnecessary, adds additional 
>> work for someone, and removes the immediacy of what communication 
>> means today among the likes of chat and Twitter, etc.  Please 
>> reconsider this decision.  If the decision to go moderated is based 
>> on having an .edu host, perhaps the list can be moved to Yahoo Groups 
>> or another free hosting option, or the institution can append some 
>> kind of disclaimer at the end of posts.  With Yahoo Groups, you can 
>> still control who joins the list and whether or not it deserves this 
>> level of review.
>>
>> [Of course, if you all never hear from me again you'll know what 
>> happened! <wink>]
>> -enrique
>>
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