Peru
From: "Veronica Rossana Pereyra Mora" veronica@america.edu.pe
Organization: Colegio America - C.H.S.
Date: Thu, 23 May 2000 08:53:10 -0500
Subject: Re: greetings for Hawaiin teachers
Hello dear Patti
Thanks for your message and many many greeting for your
wonderful teachers at ECELL.
Congratulations for all of you making this effort.
I have students of 6 - 9 years old. If you are interested on having
some kind of project... please, let me know.
Thanks!
VERONICA
From Poland
From: "Arkadiusz Z." EK030217@novci2.ae.poznan.pl
Organization: Akademia Ekonomiczna, Poznan, PL
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:33:27 GMT-1
ALL THE BEST FOR OUR FRIENDS IN HAWAII
WE ENJOY YOU JOIN US
Colleagues
from Poland
From Russia
Date: Tue, 23 May 00 13:35:11 +0400
From: Nicholay (Phil) Lastovka phil@child.ru
Hello from Moscow!
My best regards to "Electronic Collaborative Educational Learning
Laboratory"
and best wishes!
as ever,
with love from Russia
Nicholay (Phil) Lastovka
Moscow, Russia
Children club "Computer"
From South Africa
From: Liz Barrett liz@barrett.wcape.school.za
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 05:35:56 +0200
Dear Patti and teachers in Hawaii,
Greetings from Greenfield Girls' Primary in CapeTown, South Africa.
We are a small school set in very beautiful gardens in a suburb
called Kenilworth. We are very close to Table Mountain which is a
well known landmark of South Africa. Do visit our school web site
to learn more about us.
http://www.wcape.school.za/greenfields
We enjoy doing projects with schools in the Global classroom. Our
class has been working with a group in Gnesta , Sweden. We are
so looking forward to learning more about Hawaii.
Kind Regards
Liz Barrett
** Don't Curse The Darkness; Light a Candle **
Home : +27 21 531-1957.... School : +27 21 797-0554
School Fax : +27 21 761-0924... eMail : lbarrett@greenfield.wcape.school.za
Mail : P.O. Box 53023, Kenilworth 7745, South Africa
From South Africa
From: Carolynn Bruton carolynn@bruton.wcape.school.za
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:24:02 +0200
Subject: More greetings from Cape Town, South Africa
Dear Patti and Hawaiian friends,
You are really fortunate to share Patti on a more regular basis and
we know the power of her collaborative ideas and her quiet
spontaneous manner when she attended a computer conference
here in Cape Town in September last year.
We greet you from the"Mother City" of South Africa, from the Table
Mountain with the table cloth (the shrouds of cloud which regularly
surround our mountain), the two seas which separate our Cape
Point (the Atlantic and the Indian) and of course, from my school,
Springfield Convent Junior school - a girls' school where internet
projects and e-mail and on-line collaboration have been made all
that much richer through the example of you all. We greet you and
wish you a successful and exciting ECELL Conference. View
some of our recent projects:
The Bunny Readers (Grade 2's)
http://www.computers4kids.co.za/lunchbunsfcj.htm
The grade 3's African tales -
http://www.computers4kids.co.za/Afritalesfcj.htm
and the grade 5's "A day in the life of......"
http://www.computers4kids.co.za/daylifesfcj.htm
We have had such fun and we look forward to sharing our ideas
and resources with you all as well.
Have a wonderful conference and we greet you in three languages:
English: Hello fellow students from South Africa!
Xhosa: Molweni!
Afrikaans: Groete van Suid Afrika!
from Carolynn Bruton and the Springfielders Pre-
school to Grade 7.
Home: Carolynn@bruton.wcape.school.za ph (021)6856925
School: Carbru@sfc.wcape.school.za ph +27 21 7979637 or
+27 21 7977222
Web page: http://www.computers4kids.co.za/sfcj.htm
POSTAL MAIL:
Springfield Convent Junior School
St John's Road
Wynberg 7700
South Africa
From Spain
From: "David Donat" ddonat@pie.xtec.es
Subject: Re: greetings for Hawaiian teachers
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:21:21 +0200
Hola Patti, hola amics,
Hello Patti, hello friends,
Sóc en David Donat, de Barcelona, Catalunya. Sóc professor de Tecnologia a
l' IES Carles Riba. Us agradaria visitar el meu institut?
This is David Donat, from Barcelona, Catalunya (Spain). I am a teacher of
Technology at "IES Carles Riba" (Secondary School, 12-18 years old, boys
and girls). Would you like to visit my Institute?
http://www.xtec.es/centres/a8013381/index.htm
Formo part de Kidlink des del juliol de 1999, així que ja he complert un
any en aquesta família. Durant aquest curs els meus alumnes han participat
en tres projectes telecol·laboratius i estic segur que el proper curs
tornarem a repetir aquestes experiències. Aquestes i altres de noves.
Moltes vegades aquest tipus de treball permet que col·laborin diferents
matèries alhora i això és bo per als estudiants.
I am a Kidlinker since July 1999, so I am one year old in this family.
During this course my students have participated in three
"telecollaborative" projects (please, look at "Internet en els treballs" in
my Secondary School's web) and I am sure that next course we will repeat
these experiences again. These and new ones. Many times this kind of work
allows collaboration between different subjects and it is good for students.
Estic segur que internet ens ajudarà molt i ens donarà moltes oportunitats
a tots nosaltres, no només a nivell professional sinó també personal. El
món se'ns torna global (que no vol dir pas petit) i les distàncies físiques
ja no són són tan importants com la diversitat cultural dels habitants
d'una mateixa ciutat. Podem utilitzar internet per a connectar amb tothom.
I am sure Internet will be very helpful and will give many opportunities to
all of us, not only professionally but also personally. The world is
becoming global to us (not just small) and now physical distances are not
as significant as cultural diversity between persons who are living in the
same city. We can use internet to connect with everybody.
Espero que disfruteu la vostra feina.
I hope you will enjoy your work.
Una abraçada.
David
From Sweden
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:02:48 +0200
From: Stellan Kinberg stellan.kinberg@netg.se
Hello colleagues and students at
Electronic Collaborative Educational Learning Laboratory
I am a Science and Math teacher in Sweden in a K9 school
http://welcome.to/lovgardesskolan
I teach only 2 classes in Science
so 60 % of my work is dedicated to our computer institution who has
about 50 computers (for 450 kids) and to the young kids in the techteam
who help fix not working computers.
I have this year done a lot to get
girls
engaged in this work. I am still not happy with the results but they built
among others 15 of our new computers and have documented part of
their work in our school web site. We have so many skilled technicians
among our girl students. I hope my work will one day contribute to get
more of our girls to choose technical oriented secondary and high school.
I dedicate most of my sparetime to Kidlink. My main efforts this last two
years has been to build up an Italian dialogue between Italian teachers
and kids. We have now a nice Italian Kidlink site
http://www.kidlink.org/italiano
a team with about 10 teachers and over 1000 schools connected to the
two Italian mailing lists. It has been very interesting to follow their
work to
implement a global dialogue in the classroom.
They all have spent many hours learning to use their computers, to send
and receive emails and to explore the Internet, driven mainly by a strong
need for a new way of teaching in the classroom.
They now witness the positive effects on learning, having btw much more
motivated kids in the classroom. They had for example to work hard to get
the kids to learn English and about other cultures. Programs like WAI
(Who Am I) were kids learn together with kids in other countries
are powerful tools in the classroom.
The time and efforts spent to get the kids and yourself online are
none and soon forgotten, when you experience the positive results
in the classroom. I hope to see you all, soon online. In Kidlink! :)
Many greetings from
a green and sunny Sweden!
Stellan Kinberg
From Switzerland
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:33:15 +0200
From: Roland Egli rolandegli@bluewin.ch
Hy Patti,
Here are my greetings to the teachers in Hawaii:
"gruezi mitenand"
I send you greetings from a little country in the heart of Europe, that is
well known to most people as the land of the banks, the chocolate and the
watches. But we also teach our students to give money to the poors, to eat
also other things than chocolate and to forget time from time to time. I
hope you guessed that I live in Switzerland.
Welcome at Kidlink
Roland
From the United Kingdom
From: Helen Walland helen@ramtops.demon.co.uk
Subject: Greetings to Hawaii
Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:26:30 +0100
Hi! Best wishes to everyone on the Hawaiian Course.
I'm sure you will learn a great deal and be looking forward to using the ideas
in your classrooms.
I teach a Yr4 (8&9 year olds) in a primary school in the Midlands of England. We
have just got a network of 16 PCs and we are finding many ways to use them in
our teaching. The British government have declared their intention that every
teacher and two thirds of the children in Britain will have an email address by
2002. They are putting a lot of money into schools for this purpose.
I hope our children will be taking part in many Kidlink projects over the next
few years.
Who knows we may be working with one of your classes!
Helen Walland
From the United Kingdom
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:51:58 +0100
From: Liz Exton lizex@cableinet.co.uk
Subject: Re: greetings for Hawaiian teachers
Hello friends in Hawaii!
I hope you're all enjoying the ECELL summer school. I'm writing to you from
England, where we are having a sunny day (for a change!). I live in a city
called Bristol and my global address is about 2.5 degrees West and 51.5
degrees North.
I went to visit the students at Patti Weeg's school last summer and we had
a great time. Before the trip they prepared me for American money and I
took a fistful of English coins with me for them to have a look at. It was
fun comparing them, working out how much each one was worth. I never did
find out why there are no women on American money, though:-)
Enjoy the summer school!
Liz Exton
From Texas, USA
From: "Barbara Hunter" behunter@teacher.esc4.com
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 22:27:05 -0400
Hello teachers!
Patti tells me you are the hardest working teachers in the world! I hope
this is right......to use new technology takes dedication.
I teach Grades 3, 4, and 5 computer technology. I started this job in '83
with Apple IIe's and have progressed to absolutely fabulous hardware this
year. I learned about KIDLINK in '93 and must say it is the *best* global
(in all senses of the word global) educational tool there is.
Please take the time to participate in KIDLINK. Yes, it *does* take an
enormous amount of time, but it will be worth every minute you spend on it!
I started KIDLINK with a shared phone line and dial-up 9600 baud modem....so
whatever you now have, KIDLINK will be possible! ;-)
Try to teach your children globally.....what you take for granted is unknown
to most of your students....I say that from personal learning....little
things I teach and share in terms of our world is "news to them".
Have a great learning session. I envy you!
Warm regards,
Barbara Hunter
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Barbara Hunter..................behunter@teacher.esc4.com
Barbers Hill Intermediate.......Mt. Belvieu, Texas USA
TENET Master Trainer............29 50 51 N
KIDLINK SUPTEAM.................94 53 26 W
From Uruguay
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 11:08:02 -0300
From: Mirian Gregori mgregori@varela.reu.edu.uy
Subject: Felicitaciones!!!
Hola Patti:
Saludos desde Uruguay para maestros de
Hawaii
Cariños Mirian Gregori
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