"Keypal Opportunities for Students" on WWW by Kenji Kitao and S. Kathleen Kitao
If you find any problems, let me know.
Copyright (1996) by Dr. Kenji Kitao and Dr. S. Kathleen Kitao
Find a Keypal on the list, or become a Keypal by going to the bottom of the
list and leaving your email address, and a few comments about your interests
and hobbies.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/coll1a.htm
How to Find Pen Pals
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/coll1b.htm
Safety Tips for Pen Pal Exchange
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/online/coll1c.htm
Suggested Topics and Activities to Do with Your PenPals
GIFTED CHILDREN'S PEN PALS INTERNATIONAL (GCPPI) ws started October 1976. During the years, more than 7,000 members have been served.
There is a registration fee (for a two year membership) of five dollars AMERICAN CURRENCY (check, money order, 32 cent stamps) for each applicant.
The new member is asked to submit information for the GCPPI database. There is NO publication of the listing and names are NOT supplied to any group, researcher, etc.
Most of the members do NOT have e-mail access. Correspondence is generally conducted through snail mail.
GCPPI has been written up in Delta's FREQUENT FLYER, THE KID'S ADDRESS BOOK, MAKING MAILBOX MEMORIES, ZILLIONS, and other publications.
If you would like to receive an application and/or additional information, please contact me.
Dr. Debby Sue Vandevender
166 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10021-8509
(212) 355-2469
e-mail - debbysue@juno.com
**This is not for keypals, but traditional pen pal arrangements.
Participants introduce themselves by sending e-mail to the mailing list.
Most people send only one message to the mailing list. Participants who
remain on the mailing list receive all messages sent to Penpals. Most
participants are between 15 and 23 years old. This is not a discussion list.
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EMAIL PROJECTS TEM OWN V 80 771 94/09/14 21:01:49
* Ideas for using email with EFL/ESL students.
EMAIL WORKSHOP TEM OWN V 80 473 96/03/12 09:54:26
* Outlines for an introductory workshop on email.
PENPALS ARTICLE TEM OWN V 69 325 93/06/11 10:55:27
* "World Peace and Natural Writing Through Email," an article by
David
* Tillyer, about using email penpal communications.
PENPAL ADVICE TEM OWN V 74 158 94/11/22 14:55:18
* Essential advice for teachers who plan to use electronic pen pals.
SEICHO PROJECTS TEM OWN V 75 59 95/05/20 17:00:08
* Student Environmental Internet CHallenge Operation, April-Sept
1995
* an international project to exchange information and ideas on
local
* and global environmental issues.
WEB PROJECTS TEM OWN V 80 1600 95/12/15 07:36:29
* Ideas for using the WWW to facilitate language learning.
KIDS on listserv@lists.internic.net Now available: The K.I.D.S. Report: Kids Investigating and Discovering Site Now K-12 students can read an Internet publication written specifically for them -- not by adults, but rather by other students. The K.I.D.S Report is a bimonthly publication of Internet sites selected by K-12 students for use by other K-12 students.
Students as Publishers:
The K.I.D.S Report is truly the product of the students who collaborate to make it happen. They chose the name of the publication, they choose the sites that are included based on the set of Selection Criteria they developed, and they write the annotations for each resource. The students also choose the artwork for the Web version of each report, and in some cases do the HTML mark-up. We believe the K.I.D.S Report is the first ongoing publication done for kids, by kids.
Many of the positive comments we've already received about the K.I.D.S project (see below) have focused on the fact that the students themselves developed the Selection Criteria to be used in choosing each resource. The criteria they have developed ensures that all sites included are high quality sites and appropriate for the K-12 crowd. Teachers provide advice and support, however students assemble the K.I.D.S Report, often around a single theme, such as Ancient Civilizations or Native Americans, which allows for easy integration into classroom work.
Publication Schedule and Delivery Options:
The K.I.D.S Report can be delivered to your students automatically every 2-3 weeks via email, or they can visit the Web site for the current and all previous issues of the report. For more details about the report or information on how to subscribe, see the Web site or the instructions at bottom, or send email to kids-request@internic.net. Also, additional details and some comments from current readers are included below.
A mailing list has been established to distribute a text version of the bimonthly publication the "K.I.D.S Report", to students, teachers, parents, and other interested parties. By subscribing to the K.I.D.S mailing list, you will receive every issue of the K.I.D.S Report as soon as it is published.
This is not a discussion list. You will *not* receive any other mail except for the K.I.D.S publication and occasional related announcements.
To subscribe, send mail to listserv@lists.internic.net
In the body of the message type:
subscribe kids YOUR FIRST NAME YOUR LAST NAME
For example: subscribe kids Pat Smith
Questions and comments are welcome at the owner address:
Owner: kids-request@internic.net
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http://wwwscout.cs.wisc.edu/scout/KIDS/index.html
http://rs.internic.net/scout/KIDS/index.html
mail to: kids-request@internic.net
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The K.I.D.S. Report is an ongoing, bimonthly Internet publication about
useful Web sites, produced by K-12 students as a resource to other K-12
students. It is an ongoing, cooperative effort of two classrooms in the
Madison, Wisconsin, Madison Metropolitan School District and two
classrooms in the Boulder, Colorado, Boulder Valley School District. The
publication is supported by the InterNIC Net Scout project at University
of Wisconsin - Madison.
The students from all four schools nominated and voted on the title: The K.I.D.S. Report: Kids Investigating and Discovering Sites
Students from the four schools also discussed and decided on a list of Selection Criteria to be used as guidelines for evaluating all potential sites to be included in the K.I.D.S. Report. The Selection Criteria are available on the Web site as information to all readers of K.I.D.S., and for consideration by other students who may want to use similar criteria when identifying and selecting Internet sites for their own Web pages.
* From a school librarian in Santa Rosa, CA: "I'm writing to request permission to reproduce and distribute a screen printout of your site and a copy of your selection guidelines at a workshop I'm doing for children's librarians. I've looked at a number of evaluation checklists, and I think your is one of the best around. The fact that it was developed by kids should be a real eye-opener for some of the people at the workshop, since it clearly points out that the web is familiar territory to many of their patrons! In fact, I think I'm probably safe in saying that some of your students could teach this workshop with ease. What you're doing is very exciting."
* From the Webmaster at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Toronto: "Checking it [KIDS], I was gratified to find the criteria on which students are being asked to judge sites are pretty much the same criteria I apply in creating Web modules."
* From a parent in Edmonton, Alberta Canada: "WOW! I was looking for an informative and creative ways to get my children and their friends interested in the Internet. Your pages are terrific! Please forward my thanks and appreciation for a job well done to all the great people involved in your endeavours."
* From a parent in Green Bay, Wisconsin: "Love the KIDS connection. My son (grade 5) is involved in an ongoing social studies project that requires him to act as a reporter once a week. He has been using the Web as a source for material and discovery of this site is perfect."
* From a Harvard Graduate Student in the School of Education in Cambridge, MA:
"I'm using the KIDS website as the basis of a paper I'm writing for a course on children and multimedia. I wondered if you would have time to answer a few questions..."
* From participating students at Cherokee Middle School in Madison, WI:
"I didn't realize how difficult it is to be a critic." "We are learning at
the same time we are discovering. It is kind of like how preschoolers
learn.
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The InterNIC provides information about the Internet to the US research
and education community under a cooperative agreement with the National
Science Foundation: NCR-9218742. The Government has certain rights in this
material.
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Susan Calcari scalcari@cs.wisc.edu Project Director and Internet Scout phone: 608.265.8042 InterNIC Net Scout fax: 608.262.9777 University of Wisconsin -- Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout 1210 W. Dayton Street http://rs.internic.net/scout Madison, WI 53706------- Use this information at your own risk. For more information and disclaimer send E-mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU with the command INFO NEW-LIST in the body.
If you find any problems, let me know.
Copyright (1996) by Dr. Kenji Kitao and Dr. S. Kathleen Kitao