[OklahomaIndianStudies] Good... and getting started

[Lee Hester]

Most of you have responded now, so it is clear that everything is working.
David Hertzel asked a question about the operation of the listserv whose
answer is probably of interest to everyone:

 

Does a "reply all" work to reply to everyone on the listserv?  

 

My reading of the Listserv instructions indicates that it isn't supposed to,
but it looks as if it actually did when David tried it.  In fact, I got two
copies of his message --- one addressed directly to me and one addressed to
me via the list.  Since the instructions don't seem to say this, it could be
that they just aren't written well.  They seem to indicate that I can set
both "reply" and "reply all" to either go only to the original poster or to
everyone on the list depending on how I set a parameter in the setup.
Clearly it would be best if "reply" only went to the original poster and
"reply all" went to everyone.  This is so clear, you'd think the programmers
would have set it up that way. So I'm hoping that the instructions just got
it wrong.  The good thing is that it is easy to tell if your "reply all" was
sent to everyone, because you will get a copy of it along with everyone
else. 

 

David also asked everyone what they thought about the possibility of
pressure from administrators concerning conformance to a state mandate on
course content based on the matrix.  I can understand the concern, but my
feeling is that it won't happen soon in Indian Studies if at all.  I'm not
sure what it does beyond insure portability, which is what the matrix is
supposed to do anyway.  If the issue is whether we might be under pressure
to more radically alter courses that have no equivalence so they are brought
into equivalence, I can see that this would increase portability.  But, I'm
not sure what that does beyond help the students and I hate to say it, but I
doubt that student convenience is enough to cause many administrators to put
much pressure on anything.  The fact that we are something of a backwater
(until our Association gets the State Regents to see the light), also means
that whatever the gain is, it probably won't be worth doing a lot to get
Indian Studies to conform.  So, I guess I'm not too concerned, but some of
you out there may know better.

 

 

Lee

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