I will be writing to Maxine Shindel <mshindel@umd5.umd.edu> to offer
support for this project. Anyone else care to join in?
>Subject:
> K12> GLOBAL ALPHABETS - project
> Date:
> 13 Jan 1997 08:28:40 -0600
> From:
> Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
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>To: crc@classroom.net
>From: "Classroom Connect Mailing List" <crcmail@205.246.90.10>
>Subject: GLOBAL ALPHABETS
>Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:18:38 +0000
>
>PROJECT COORDINATOR'S NOTE: This project depends on the World Wide Web.
>
>GLOBAL ALPHABETS:
>
>Registration deadline: February 1
>Timeline: February - April
>
>Students will choose a country and create an alphabet
>page to represent it. (Only one letter per class. The letter may
>represent more than one country.)
>
>Since there are many alphabets (and some languages which use
>characters and not alphabets) there are rich opportunities for
>multi-lingual pages. The project will share information
>about the spoken and written languages; explore geography; identify
>cultural contributions of countries.
>
>The alphabet page may include:
>
>. original artwork depicting the landmarks, clothing; holidays,
> kid-created coloring book pages
>. photos; maps, poems, sound files, recommendations for appropriate
> www sites for further research.
>. interviews; descriptions of favorite children's games
>. nursery, jump, or game rhymes popular in that country
>
>A more detailed project description will be available by
>mid to late January. There is still time to add your
>ideas for this project description.
>
>* a template for an actual alphabet block that could be printed and
> used in classes would be nice. Anyone want to try that ?
>
>Now for the big questions....
>
>HOW DO I PARTICIPATE? :
>
>1. Register for one of the above projects by e-mail or postal mail.
> INDICATE THE NAME OF THE PROJECT (SNOWMEN or ALPHABET)
> IN THE SUBJECT HEADING OF YOUR MESSAGE
>
>TWO WAYS TO PARTICIPATE:
>
>2. Completed project activities will be displayed at the Electronic
>Elementary Magazine (E-Link) website. The URL for the current issue is:
>
>http://www.inform.umd.edu/mdk-12/homepers/emag/index.winter_97.html
>
>If you have your own website, E-LINK will list your school and link
>to the main project page. You provide a link from the project page back to
>E-LINK.
>
>If you don't have a website for school, the project work you send us will
>be put into a webpage on the E-Link site.
>
>WHAT IF I WANT TO DO THE PROJECT, DON'T HAVE A WEBSITE,
>AND DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START:
>
>Register.
>Think of the project and develop it as if you were posting it on a
>bulletin board in your hallway or sending it to share with friends (which
>is what you will do.)
>
>As you do the project, you will have written work and pictures or graphics.
>Written work should be typed. It will be sent to us on disk or by e-mail
>as a plain text file, so we don't have to re-type it from scratch. Other
>arrangements can be made if needed.
>
>It doesn't matter what kind of computer you use. (E-LINK is produced on
>Macintosh; we use Microsoft Works for word processing. We can read
>anything saved as an ascii text file.)
>
>We can read computer-generated or scanned pictures in .pict; jpeg; or .gif
>formats. (For reference, most kids drawing/painting programs save in one
>of these file formats, ususally .pict.
>
>Pictures can be hand-drawn and mailed. We can scan them for you.
>
>REGISTRATION FORM:
>
>Include the following information:
>
>Name of Project:
>If Alphabet Project, indicate letter and country you will present:
>Name of teacher who will be coordinating the project:
>E-mail address of Teacher:
>School name:
>School Address:
>URL of school homepage, if any:
>
>Number of classes and participants:
>Grades or age range of particpants:
>Type of computer used:
>Ability to create webpages, if any:
>
>If you are a webpage creator and are interested in assisting
>in web page creation or mentoring for this project, please indicate.
>
>SEND COMPLETED PROJECT REGISTRATION INFO TO:
>
>mshindel@umd5.umd.edu
>
>For registration by postal mail, send to:
>
>Maxine Shindel
>Cromwell Valley Elementary
>825 Providence Road
>Towson, Maryland, USA 21286
>
>I look forward to working with you :-)
>
>Regards,
>Maxine
>
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