Greetings To Pakistan From Around the World!
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|Argentina |
Austria |
Botswana |
Brazil |
Denmark |
Finland |
Iceland |
Iran |
Israel |
Italy |
Japan |
| Norway | Peru | Portugal | Russia | South Africa | United Kingdom | USA | Uruguay |
October 24, 2000 I have asked many of my colleagues in our virtual community of educators to send you abundant wishes from all over the world for a fantastic conference - Rethinking Education. We can't be with you in person but with all the emerging technologies we have today, we can still "reach" each other and support one another. We are only a keystroke away. I have been doing online projects with my students since 1992 and have seen the sparkle in little children's eyes as they join hands with other children around the world in our "globalclassroom." Their lessons have real world meaning because they have an audience and a purpose for what they are writing and doing. They are excited about learning and this is beautiful to see! Please take a look at the pages I have prepared for you that share some of the exciting projects and activities I have been doing with my students. New Mindsets for a New Millennium Please join us. We have many seats for you here in our globalclassroom. Best wishes for a fantastic conference!
Warm hugs to all,
From: Carlos Calderon calderon@cyber1.cybertech.com.ar Technology education brings together knowledge gained from other disciplines, such as science and mathematics, as the basis for studying systems in the areas of Transportation, Communication, Construction, Manufacturing and Biology. I have about 10 years of experience in Robotics, working with children from 7 to 12 years old. Then I considered that it is very important to create a place where the children can explain their ideas and inventions. Inside the school there is much information but there is not enough time to build, to find the problems and solutions or to invent. For this reason I consider that it is very important to learn robotics in a workshop after school. In my case, in this year, I implemented a private workshop called iTOYS . Intelligent Toys . I have a General Programm in three different levels : Basic, Intermediate and Advanced. Well, your questions about it will be... Where is the teacher? What does the teacher do? How are the different levels formed? When conversing with my students, I must be alert for clues which indicate their of understanding. They must work with pulleys, axles, gears... then motors, different types of sensors and programming. Finally, they work with intelligent bricks -wireless-.
The kind of homework they are asked to do is mainly related to doing research on the different topics dealt with in class. Students look for this information in the Internet, CD ROM and of course : books. During the last 3 years I saw a very good material available to teach technology. This means that technology education will prepare students for any future job. Of course we use Internet for exchange and communication about robotics project that include an intelligent house, a factory, a robot arm, a truck, a greenhouse, a windmill, and trains... When each child finishes with his/her job a photo is sent to his/her e-mail address. Afther that a video tape is recorded with images of the projects in action so that the students can have that material at home where the learning process continues with his/her friends and family. In this way, the Internet is used to an advantage. And with Patti Weeg we had communication and exchange information about customs, habits, weather, children´s hobbies and pictures. Some time after that, we use Kidlink to exchange information with the children of the world. Dears Teachers... I hope you'll have a great success in your workshop with Patti Weeg, who is an excellent teacher.
Best regards from Argentina
From: Alois Vilim avilim@atnet.at Liebe Patti, Liebe Lehrer und Lehrerinnen, Unser Schuljahr ist nun 5 Wochen alt. Unsere 593 Schüler und Schülerinnen haben alle eine e-mail-adresse, die sie bereits fleissig nützen. Ich bereite gerade eine Kurs vor, bei dem neue Lehrer und Lehrerinnen den Umgang mit dem Internet an unserer Schule kennen lernen sollen. Ich wünsche Dir Patti und Deinen Lehrerinnen und Lehrern viel Spass beim Lernen im Internet. Alois Vilim in English: Dear Patti, hello teachers, Our school-year is now five weeks old. All of our 593 students have their e-mail-address .....@fichtnergasse.asn-wien.ac.at , and some of them are really busy in sending mail. We have some new teachers at our school and I'm preparing some lessons how to use the Internet, Computer and CD-ROM with our classes.
Have a good time in Islamabad http://www.fichtnergasse.asn-wien.ac.at
From: Kgaswe Primary School kgaswe@botsnet.bw Dear Patti, Our Std 7 class have compiled a special greeting for your conference delegates. As Kgaswe is an international school, they did a survey of the different languages spoken and the greetings from each language. You can see the result here: http://www.geocities.com/kgaswe/greetings.htm
Regards, [Click on the image to see a larger image and a table with an country name for each of the words in the image greeting. - Patti]
From: Marisa Lucena mwlucena@kidlink.fplf.org.br Hi, Greetings from my warm country Brazil! I invite you to visit Kidlink in Brazil: http://venus.rdc.puc-rio.br/kids/kidlink and to search for good educational and analysed websites that you can use in your classroom with your students in: http://www.estudioweb.com.br (click the Flag for English version). Good luck and enjoy the Internet and Kidlink!
Cheers
Dr. Marisa Lucena
Hello teachers in Pakistan!!
Greetings from Northern Europe.
We are a small school in Denmark named Aller Friskole and we have been
working on projects in Kidlink for several years.
Our school only has 80 students from grade kindergarten to grade 8, but we
all like to use computers a lot. Even though the youngest of us do not read
or write, we enjoy using pictures. Pictures can tell a lot about our and
other people's way of life.
Those of us you are beginning to learn English like to do projects with
other students in English. It helps us a lot in using English in an "every
day" way.
Those of us who have been learning English for several years - enjoy
chatting on the Kidlink IRC or the Kidlink c2d.
Please visit some of our projects on the Danish Kidlink c2d.
Greetings from
Aller Friskole, Denmark, Europe
Hanne Wolff, teacher
From: Staffan Holmberg staffanh@narpes.fi
I wish you and Patti Weeg luck in your efforts. We all have to learn
more about each other. Kidlink is a wonderful way to meet people from
around the world. Though Pakistan is indeed a long way from Finland if
you travel, you are only a click away thru the internet.
Staffan Holmberg, Narpes, Finland
From: Eygló Björnsdóttir eyglob@ismennt.is
Dear Patti and teachers in Pakistan!
How lucky you are Patti, to have the opportunity to tell
our colleagues in Pakistan all about Kidlink and how lucky they
are to have you with them :-)
I wish I could join you, but as everybody knows there is a long way
from Iceland to Pakistan :-)
But on the other hand, distances are relative.
Via Kidlink we try to break barriers like distances and cultural difference
to enhance our and our students' quality of life.
I have sometimes thought about how my life would have been if I had
not been so lucky to get to know Kidlink and it's opportunities.
There I have got lot of friends, (whom some of them I have never met in real
life)
and they have thought me so much which I have been able to use with my
students.
As I am not teaching this year but studying, I have no class to give
greetings from,
but I am sure my former students in Westman islands would have sent
greetings to you all.
http://vestmannaeyjar.ismennt.i
s/nem/
I look forward to meet you all here in Kidlink!
Hugs from a little cold but sunny Iceland!
From: Hilda Torfadóttir hilda@ismennt.is
Dear Patti and teachers of Pakistan,
I have been a part of the Kidlink family since early 1998 and it sure
changed my life.
Patti is like the mother of the family and I am very much looking forward
to visit her and her school in February.
Good luck to you all.
Hilda Torfadóttir
Ađstođarstjórnandi
Kidlink -íslenska
From: Ali Parsa parsa@neda.net
To my Pakistani brothers and sisters,
I wish all of you success in your 'Technology in Education Conference'.
Patti Weeg has asked me to send you a short greeting message. I can't
promise that it is short, but, besides wishing you success, I wanted to talk
to you about computers in the schools.
I have studied computer science in Iran and in the US. And I have been
working in this field since 1979. I am one of the first users of the
Internet in Iran (1991). So you can't say that I am against computers. But
at the same time I am against mindless acquisition of computers in homes and
schools.
I am sure many of you have seen how young people are attracted to computers,
playing games and using the various chat services on the Internet. Do we
think this is what we have in mind when we set for putting computers in
schools? Is chatting that educational? Is playing games (usually violent
ones involving shooting 'the enemy' 26 times a second) what we are to get
from computers? Is this the best way to spend the very limited financial
resources of our schools? I think not.
My alternative: why not spend the money in organizing a science center in
the school? A small science center with hands-on exhibits. And why not
organizing a science club, which will take the students to many interesting
industrial, technical, and scientific organizations in the form of field
trips. The club can arrange for various activities related to science and
technology. It might even have a computer branch. Students can go to an
Internet Cafe, or some company which provides time on its computers, and
work with computers, even chat and play games, in a supervised, and planned
way. I hope you would tell me about your ideas and experiences in this
regard.
At the end I want to present this poem by the great Pakistani thinker and
poet, Iqbal Lahori, to Patti Weeg:
Mowjim ke asoudegi-e ma adam-e mast
(Like waves we will perish if we stop
I think she is a real embodiment of this poem and we at this part of the
world have many things to learn from her.
Many thanks for your attention and wishing you all a successful conference.
Ali Parsa
From: Hannah Sivan hannah@boker.org.il
Dear Teachers of Pakistan,
Congratulations for your first Conference.
This is Hannah http://www.boker.org.il/davids/hannah/welcome.htm from
Sde-Boker http://www.boker.org.il/meida/negev/valbum/album2.jpg Israel.
We work and live in a small community in the Negev Desert in the Southern
part of Israel.
We know Kidlink and Patti 10 years already and we have learned a lot. I wish
you all a most interesting Conference and I am sure that you will learn a lot
from Patti.
Shalom to you all,
From: Isa Bellocchi cdi9ca@re.nettuno.it
Hi to all the conference participants!!
My name's Isa Bellocchi and I teach English at Istituto "Don Dossetti in
Cavriago, Reggio Emilia (do you know REGGIO CHILDREN? It is famous all over
the world because they said in the Newsweek we have the best nurseries
school!!!!!!!), but I'm writing to talk to you about my experience in
Kidlink, more famous I think.
My students enjoy participating in almost all the Kidlink projects: in
particular: Who Am I?, Toe Project. They like sharing letters and opinions
with other foreign students. They learn a lot from their experiences. So we
always must say: THANKS TO KIDLINK, and especially to Patti Weeg and her
collaborators. We have included it in our school work.
BYE TO EVERYONE FROM
From: Tsutomu
Iyanagi diyanagi@mail.chabashira.co.jp
Greetings from The Earth Club, Shimizu city, Japan
to The First National Technology in Education Conference, Pakistan.
Here we, 20 members are!! [Click on the link below to see a message with
many pictures for you.]
http://www.iceberg.org/~iyanagi/salad/fl/fl1/earth3.html
We want to be your friends.
Patti, thank you for delivering our dream to all over the world.
We wish you success on your conference.
Best wishes,
From: Odd de Presno presno@eunet.no
Hello friends in Pakistan!
The first child to use Kidlink from Pakistan came in 1996. Since then, we
have had many of your children and youth use our services, so it seems high
time for you to meet our Patti Weeg
face-to-face. I am very glad that this is now happening, and also because I
have some dear personal friends in your country. :-)
Now, that I have this short opportunity to talk, I'd like to present a
challenge that might interest you:
I know that Pakistan is a country of many languages and cultures. The
Ethnologue claims you have 66
(http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/countries/Pakn.html), with Panjabi, Urdu,
Saraiki, and Pashto being the largest.
One of our ambitions is to help protect languages and cultures. This is
done in several ways:
(a) By giving your language a "place in the sun." See Kidlink's top page to
understand what I mean
(b) By including your language and culture in the Who-Am-I? program. This
programme also provides systematic exchanges with other languages and
cultures. Its contents are explained at
http://www.kidlink.org/k
ie/nls/abstract.html
If you are interested in having Kidlink in your language, please browse the
information at
http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/language.html.
We have plenty of
room, and on behalf of all the other kids around the world: we need you.
Good luck, and have a great meeting!
Thanks,
Odd de Presno
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In our small primary school we are trying to find Bosnian penpals for
our group of Bosnian refugees at the moment. I hope Kidlink will provide
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