eChalk – email list
eChalk has existed as an email discussion list concerned broadly with professional development and curriculum issues in information technology for schools, including but not limited to, use of the Internet and other computer and network based technological innovations for many years.
The focus for eChalk membership was people in Western Australian primary and secondary schools, to avoid overlapping with the hundreds of Internet lists operating for schools and teachers in many parts of the world.
Initiated by the Teaching and Learning Centre at Murdoch University in December 1994 on the host cleo.murdoch.edu.au, eChalk supports the activities of the Educational Computing Association of WA (Inc) (ECAWA).
In August 2002 eChalk migrated to a new server hosted by the Science and Mathematics Education Centre (SMEC) at Curtin University of Technology.
In January 2005, eChalk migrated again, to a listserver hosted by EdNA, as a part of EdNA’s service Collaborative Tools and Groups.
In late 2012, with the demise of the EdNA lists, and with the assistance of Professor Margaret Lloyd, eChalk migrated to a new home on a server at the Faculty of Education at QUT.
Most recently, in January 2015, eChalk has moved once again.
Throughout this time the eChalk list continued to be administered by Dr Roger Atkinson, then by Ian Gaynor (dec), Lynley McKernan and Michael King, and continues to be supported by ECAWA – The Educational Computing Association of Western Australia (Inc) – as a service to the education community.
In February 2025, after a period of inactivity, eChalk began a new phase as a discussion forum for members of ECAWA, with all financial members of ECAWA subscribed to the forum unless they opted out. Non members are not able to access the eChalk emails.
After you receive a message saying that you have been subscibed to eChalk, as member of ECAWA and a new eChalkian you may prefer to “lurk” and simply benefit from reading the posted messages. Any messages which are not relevant to you – simply delete.
Should you wish to send a message or question to eChalk, simply make a new message through your email program and send it to:
If at any time you need assistance with any aspect of using eChalk or unsubscribing from eChalk, please contact the administrators, Michael King, Lynley McKernan, President@ecawa.wa.edu.au or Secretary@ecawa.wa.edu.au
Enjoy.