KIDLINK Meeting in Rio de Janeiro

August 1996

The II Annual KIDLINK Meeting was held in Rio de Janeiro from August 12-16, 1996. KIDLINK people came from all over the world: Japan, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Slovenia, Israel, USA, Brasil, Uruguay, Panama, Peru and Puerto Rico. The geography of Brasil takes your breath away; the KIDLINK family captures your heart. The images below tell you why. Many, many thanks to our hostess, Marisa Lucena and all her helpers who made our visit so wonderful.

Saturday, August 10: Some of us arrive in Rio

• Sunrise on Copacabana Beach
• Lely, Tryggvi, Lara and Odd walk along Avenida Atlantica across from our hotel
• Our 'home' for the week - The Miramar Hotel
• Favelas View from my hotel window
• Our view at breakfast - looking out the windows from the hotel dining area
• The sea - another view while eating at the hotel

Sunday, August 11: Parque Nacional da Tijuca (Rainforest)

• Lara and Patti on the way to Tijuca
• Claus and Patti taking photos
• Elsie, Claus, Patti, Oscar in the rainforest
• Oscar, Patti, Tryggvi, Lara and Claus in the rainforest
• Rainforest at Tijuca
• Lara and Tryggvi
• Claus

August 12-16, Faculdade Carioca: We really did work!

• Off we go to the Faculdade Carioca each morning
• On the bus
• Sonia Sette and Odd on the bus
• Classroom sessions each day from 9:00 until 15:30
• Classroom sessions (followed by small group sessions at the hotel until 17:30)
• Javier, Lely and Hannah in small group discussions
• Claus leading the discussion about our WWW top page design
• Oscar makes a point
• Dan talks to our group
• Jamie discusses KIDLINK Wizards
• David listens during our small group sessions
• Isamu, Bo and Elsie in our small group
• Isamu explains the project with Patti's kids
• Isamu presents Patti with t-shirts
• Mr. KIDLINK WWW - John Ost
• Hands-On IRC training for conference participants
• More IRC training Patti and Jamie in the lab
• Brasilian students - Inauguration of KHouse at Faculdade

Summaries of Working Sessions

• Reports from our Wednesday morning meetings at Faculdade Carioca
• Hanne's report: Sonia Sette, Portuguese Language Lists
• Epi's report: Marisa Lucena/Gisela Clunie, Multiple Language Support
• Laurie's report: Discussion on Multi-Lingual Use
• Discussion of Distance Learning using the KIDLINK model image kindness of Hannah
• Joyce's report: August 13th second session - Isamu, Claus, Lars-Erik and Patti

V Encontro da Educacao com a Informatica

• Odd gives an overview of KIDLINK
• Marcia and the children
• Lars-Erik in his suit!
• David shows images of the desert
• Epi presents information about RESPONSE
• Hanne tells about the Nordic language lists
• Patti's presentation about KIDPROJ (many project images)
• Dan's presentation of KIDART (excellent KIDART examples)

Food and Fun!

• Ready and waiting to depart for dinner on Brasilian time ;-)
• Lunch in Oscar's room at the hotel
• The food was fantastic!
• Carlos, Beto and Marisa our hosts!
• Dinner and party at Marisa's home
• Marisa's party
• Sonia Fernandez enjoys the party
• Fantastic music at Marisa's party
• John and Odd chat at the party
• Gregor (Alenka's son), Elsie and Tryggvi
• On-line at Marisa's party Rebecca and Lars-Erik
• Hannah and Isamu on-line at Marisa's party
• Hanne and Lars-Erik
• Alenka and Manuel
• Isamu and Dan
• Joyce and Marisa's Mom, Helena Woolf Ferreiro
• Joyce and Isamu
• "Mr. GoFix" Tryggvi
• Patti, Dan and Jamie
• Epi, Lely and Laurie at Marisa's party
• Jamie gives Odd his gift
• The KIDLINK Chief
• Carnival!
• Carnival dresses
• Everybody dance!
• Claus loves to dance!

Saturday, August 17: Corcovado, Sugar Loaf and Ipanema

• The view from Corcovado
• Marcia falls! See the cast on her foot
• The view from Pao de Acucar
• Another view from Sugar Loaf (Pao de Acucar)
• David, Patti and Hannah
• Eliz enjoys a drink
• Patti and Eliz on the beach - the wind in our hair and the sand in our feet

There's a saying on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that once you get our sand in your shoes you will always come back. Rio de Janeiro... I have your sand in my shoes...

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Patricia A. Weeg

patti@globalclassroom.org

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