Dear Participants,
Thank you for joining in the fun and learning of this year's project. With your unflagging enthusiasm and dedication, you can ensure the project's success.
Please remember that postcards are not sent until September 24, 2007. It is not required that you send on that date, but please do not send before then. It would be wise to wait to download your participant lists until that date, too. The project will close to new registrants a few days before the "mail" date. By waiting to download participant lists, you will ensure that you have a current list that will not require a great deal of updating.
This blog will serve two basic purposes. It provides a place for you to talk with one another - to ask questions, share project expertise and ideas, etc. It also provides a place for you to make others aware of changes (or problems) with participant information. If you post a message with a question or sharing of information, please label it "share." Changes to contact information should be labeled as "change."
That's it for now... be sure you have read the "how to participate" page on our web site, and are formulating implementation plans that will fit your classroom, your students.
Best,
Leni
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Hi! I am very excited to participate with my students this year. Could anyone give me specifics on ideas for electronic postcards? I would like our class to do a combination of both, but am not sure of how to go about the techie end. I know we could create and print out postcards using PowerPoint. Any other ideas?
Thanks!
Lisa
Electronic postcards are really cool, but they can be difficult to prepare. One of America's finest author - illustrator of picture books, Jan Brett, has her own fantastic collection of e-postcards.
My daughter, a sophomore in high school, and I have used her e-postcards for about five years now.
There are cards for just about every occasion, and you may find cards from her stories that have an environment similar to the one where you live. Some of those include the seashore, artic, rainforest, rodeo country, snowy country, cities and others.
Check it out. I believe you may be very happy to use Jan Brett's e-postcards as one of your resources.
A very special mentor of mine reminded me that we teachers don't have to reinvent the wheel.
The website address is
http://www.janbrett.com
Enjoy,
Sheryl
HI,
I can't wait to join in this project. Because our school year ends in December, I hope we don't let people down with no communication from Dec - Feb. Please let me know if you think this will be a problem.
Cheers
Denise
HI,
I can't wait to join in this project. Because our school year ends in December, I hope we don't let people down with no communication from Dec - Feb. Please let me know if you think this will be a problem.
Cheers
Denise
Post a Comment