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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1993 13:44:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.nodak.edu>

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Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1993 14:47:00 EST
From: gt31 <Ginny_TRULIO@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list LM_NET <LM_NET@suvm.bitnet>
Subject: NIH EDNET

Are there any Media Specialists interested in teaching high school or
middle school students to send via modem their biomedical, biology and/or
chemistry research questions for scientists at the National Institutes of
Health to answer?  Or read a review of a scientist's current research and
leave questions.  Or read about internship opportunities for students and
teachers to come to the NIH Bethesda, MD campus during the summer.
AND MORE........

NIH EDNET is an electronic bulletin board at the Bethesda, Maryland campus
of NIH.  There is NO CHARGE to access EDNET.  We have an 800 phone number
for national access which I am told is also an international number
although I haven't had the opportunity to try it from another country. We
provide the initials and account for access.  You can also reach us through
Internet.

If you are interested in receiving an EDNET User's Guide, send a personal
Email message which includes your mailing address to:
                              VT5@CU.NIH.GOV

If you use the bulletin board and have suggestions, I would appreciate
receiving them.  Since I am a full time high school media specialist
(I work part time for NIH.), I always invite the media specialist to the
training sessions when I visit a school.  Actually, I have observed that
in most cases, using EDNET is more successful when the media specialist
is the person supervising the students when they logon and leave messages.
(The science teacher "approves" the message in the middle school and sends
student to media center for logon.  In the high school, there has been a
mixture of procedures from no supervision to some supervision and also
students calling from home.)

I leave the following information for those of you who would like to logon
to EDNET without the help of the User's Guide.

MODEM SETTINGS:  7 data bits, even parity, 1 stop bit
800-358-2221 (local number is 301-492-2221)

When you see "connect 2400" on the screen or "connect 1200" depending on
your baud rate, type  ",VT100"  (comma VT100).
at INITIALS type  "NAK"
at ACCOUNT type  "ZZYZ"

Continue by following instructions.  Select a conference to join and read
the messages.  All information will be in messages.  Leaving a message is
somewhat user unfriendly.  You use Wylbur editing commands, if you are
familiar with them.  They are described in the User's Guide.

I would like to see a "flood" of calls to EDNET.  We have only been in
operation for a year but I think I have the major "bumps" and "glitches"
straightened out.  If this type of bulletin board is of use to educators
and students, we need to let NIH know this by using it. Let me know the
problems.  I created the board and am the overall moderator.

Ginny Trulio                          301-320-6583
NIH EDNET Administrator               Media Specialist
Office of Education                   Walt Whitman High School
National Institutes of Health         Bethesda, MD
Building 10, room 1C129
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892

Individual messages to VT5@CU.NIH.GOV
LM_NET messages to GT31@Umail.Umd.Edu

Media Specialists without an Internet account can write for a User's
Guide at the above NIH address.

Ginny Trulio

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