Rashmi,

I don't do a blog page. I have a personal website, http://www.erols.com/apembert and the educational website you have looked at: http://www.educationalsynthesis.org ...

Back in '95, I was asked to write a chapter of a book on how the early Internet was being used in the schools. My chapter detailed the everyday experiences and some of the windfall events from emailing students all over the world.

One such event was when my students were in the lab and could get online when they chose. Some enjoyed telnetting to a school in Canada to enjoy "live" conversations instead of just email. The school in Canada was a middle school, rural, like us. One day the boys in Canada realized they were talking to a class of all high school girls, and someone lost their head. They asked is one of the girls was "hot", and, after a discussion of how to handle this diplomatically, the girls opted to reply by saying that no, they weren't hot, since it was May and the air conditioner in the building was working. Some inappropriate language appeared as a reply, and I had to interject to get the Canadian teacher to the computer and let her know what had happened. The miscreate was banned from the Internet for two weeks, and my girls felt the affair had ended well.

Make sure that you develop and maintain a good relationship with the teachers of the students your students are chatting with. Not only will those teachers help you maintain a positive tone, but together you can find solutions to any problems that arise.

Anne

Rashmi,

I hope you will join us on the forum for "Future Schooling". I think you will add a unique perspective, especially since you are looking at education from a different country than most of us are.

Anne

Hi Rashmi,
My Math w. Google Earth website is up. Please take a look and let me know what you think. RealWorldMath.org

-tom