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The TEFLChina email lists -- 3 lists discussing Teaching English as a Foreign Language in China founded in 1996 by Roger Chrisman, David Catterick and others.

Jump to List rules, third item in Contents at right

[edit] Topics

• TEFLChina discusses teaching issues -- classroom problems and techniques, materials, lesson plans -- pedagogy for teaching English in China: teflchina@yahoogroups.com
• TEFLChinaJob discusses jobs, job ads, contracts, visas, qualifications and professional development of English teachers in China: teflchinajob@yahoogroups.com
• TEFLChinaLife discusses our lives as English teachers in China -- language, food, travel, stories, learning Chinese, your life related to China, politics (lightly!), computers, your stuff -- be polite and professional: teflchinalife@yahoogroups.com

[edit] Subscribe Unsubscribe etc.

Subscribe. To join the email lists, send a blank email to:

teflchina-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinajob-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinalife-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

All 3 lists' command addresses can go in one email's To line, separated by commas.

Unsubscribe. To stop mail from the email lists, send a blank email to:

teflchina-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinajob-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinalife-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

All 3 lists' command addresses can go in one email's To line, separated by commas.

Digest (all messages in a day combined in one email; each list has its own Digest) To set your subscriptions to Digest, send a blank email to:

teflchina-digest@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinajob-digest@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinalife-digest@yahoogroups.com

All 3 lists' command addresses can go in one email's To line, separated by commas.

Normal (individual emails). To set your subscriptions to Normal send a blank email to:

teflchina-normal@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinajob-normal@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinalife-normal@yahoogroups.com

All 3 lists' command addresses can go in one email's To line, separated by commas.

Nomail. To set your subscriptions to Nomail (stops email delivery without unsubscribing) send a blank email to:

teflchina-nomail@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinajob-nomail@yahoogroups.com, 
teflchinalife-nomail@yahoogroups.com

• The Subscribe and Unsubscribe commands take effect only after you reply to a confirmation email from Yahoogoups.
• Send commands From the same email address that you subscribed with.
• If you have tried the above and still need help, email me: karen.stanley@cpcc.edu

[edit] List rules

1. Be friendly and courteous towards all others. If anyone's post feels unfriendly email me privately at karen.stanley (at) cpcc.edu (I care and need your feedback). Do not use needlessly argumentative, immoderate nor cutting words, however subtly. Email stings too easily.

2. Sign posts with your Full Name (First and Last name). Be your professional self. You may sign simply your first name if your email's 'From' header clearly displays your Firstname Lastname.

3. Do not quote whole screens of text in your reply. Quote only if it is essential to the understanding of your message, in which case quote only those phrases that are absolutely necessary.

4. Use informative subject lines. If the topic diverges, start a new thread with new subject line.

5. Copyright counts. DO NOT post copyrighted material without permission. You may summarize and/or include brief quotes of others' copyrighted materials, news articles, etc. if you give full references. (Do not give website addresses without some indication of their content.)

6. Privacy. Before forwarding others' emails or posts to the list, obtain their permission and put, "Forwarded with permission of original author(s)," at top.

7. Use only plain text because HTML and attachments are automatically removed by these Yahoo Groups. Please upload relevant non-plain text files to Wikigogy.org and put a link to the file in your post to the email list. Put a note on the file at Wikigogy to indicate which email list it is related to, otherwise someone might delete it. By uploading a file to Wikigogy you license it to the world under our Copyright.

8. No cross-posting.

9. No advertisements. Job ads are welcome that include full details -- see TEFLChinaJob guidelines for job ads at http://wikigogy.org/TEFLChina/Job_ad

If you feel a post in violation of the rules has perhaps gone unnoticed by the moderator, or have a general concern about the list, please contact the list moderator: karen.stanley (at) cpcc.edu

[edit] Note

• Posts may be edited by list moderators for readability or to meet list rules.
• Posts may be rejected at the moderator's discretion.
• Copyright and responsibility for each post belong to the poster.

[edit] Copyright

Wikigogy's Copyright does not apply to list posts. List posts are the property of their authors. See List Rule #5 Copyrights count, above, and the Yahoo! Groups Guidelines.

[edit] Job ad

• The TEFLChinaJob email list welcomes China teaching job opening announcements that include full details

[edit] Archive

Messages are archived in four separate locations. The Yahoogroup location however goes back the farthest, to 2000.

Yahoogroups

messages from 2000 forward

TEFLChina - - - - - http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/teflchina

TEFLChinaJob - - - http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/teflchinajob

TEFLChinaLife - - - http://groups.yahoo.com/messages/teflchinalife

Gmane

messages only from 2006 forward

TEFLChina - - - - - http://news.gmane.org/gmane.education.english.teflchina.general

TEFLChinaJob - - - http://news.gmane.org/gmane.education.english.teflchina.jobs

TEFLChinaLife - - - http://news.gmane.org/gmane.education.english.teflchina.life

Osdir

messages only from 2006 forward

TEFLChina - - - - - http://osdir.com/ml/education.english.teflchina.general/

TEFLChinaJob - - - http://osdir.com/ml/education.english.teflchina.jobs/

TEFLChinaLife - - - http://osdir.com/ml/education.english.teflchina.life/

Nable

messages only from 2006 forward

TEFLChina - - - - - http://www.nabble.com/-f14810.html

TEFLChinaJob - - - http://www.nabble.com/-f14812.html

TEFLChinaLife - - - http://www.nabble.com/-f14813.html

3 lists archived together http://www.nabble.com/-f14811.html

eScribe.com had our list messages going back to 1996 but has been off the Internet since 2005.

[edit] Wikigogy

Wikigogy.org is our wiki for writing TEFL/TESL stuff. Welcome.

TEFLChina collaborative Web stuff is here on Wikigogy -- TEFLChina email lists continue at Yahoogroups with all collaborative webpage writing going on here at Wikigogy. Develop your lesson plan

[edit] Help

If after reading this Welcome message you still have any questions about your subscription, email me at karen.stanley at cpcc dot edu, explain what you are trying to do and include a copy of relevant error email you received from Yahoogroups (including the full headers). The headers help Karen help you.

[edit] Sort mail

Automatically sort your list mail into separate mailboxes to keep your In-Box clean.

[edit] Email clients

The following are the menu paths for setting up automatic filters in three popular email clients:

• Eudora: Tools or Window > Filters...
• Netscape Mail: Edit > Message Filters...
• Microsoft Outlook: Tools > Mail Rules...

[edit] Webmail

How to sort mail in some Webmail services

• Gmail - how to use filters and labels to sort list mail in Gmail's Webmail interface (if you use the free POP interface to download your Gmail to an email client, use the email client to sort the mail instead)

Whichever email program you are using on your computer, just set its mail filters/rules to find TEFLChina@, TEFLChinaJob@, TEFLChinaLife@ or whatever listname@ in the "To:" line and automatically transfer the message to separate TEFLChina, TEFLChinaLife, and TEFLChinaJob folders. Easy peasy lemon squeezy -- keeps your In-Box clean.

[edit] No mail?

If you unexpectedly stop receiving messages from a TEFLChina list for several days in a row, delivery of posts to your address may have been temporarily turned off by Yahoogroups due to messages bouncing off your address. You can turn your subscription back on -- unbounce yourself -- at Yahoogroups.com, or let me know at karen.stanley at cpcc dot edu and I will unbounce you.

[edit] Feedback

Send me feedback about the TEFLChina email lists, their management, etc., privately. I care about you and the lists:

Karen Stanley, TEFLChina Email Lists Owner

karen.stanley at cpcc dot edu