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The 6^th graders at Chichester Central School in Chichester, New Hampshire (USA), would like to invite you to participate in our blog.  We have created a blog, which we hope will allow us to explore varying diets from around the world.  Our goal is to understand what other country’s diets consist of and what they consider to be healthy.  Here in New Hampshire, we eat a lot of seafood and lobsters as we are so close to the Atlantic Ocean.  We also grow and eat fresh corn, apples, strawberries, blueberries and even pumpkins.  If you are interested, please visit our blog at cgagnon@edublogs.org and respond to the “World Diets” page.  If you respond, it would be helpful if you could include which country or area of the world you are responding from.  If you are not interested, it would be much appreciated if you could pass this along to a friend or colleague that may be. 

We here in New Hampshire look forward to your response.  Thanks

-Chris Gagnon – 6^th grade teacher

 

奇切斯特，新罕布什尔州（美国），在奇切斯特中央学校六年级，想邀请您来参加我们的博客。我们已经创建了一个博客，我们希望这将允许我们去探索来自世界各地不同的饮食。我们的目标是要了解其他国家的饮食包括，他们认为是健康的。在新罕布什尔州这里，我们吃了不少海鲜和龙虾，因为我们是如此接近大西洋。我们也种植和食用鲜玉米，苹果，草莓，蓝莓，甚至南瓜。如果你有兴趣，请访问我们的博客在cgagnon@edublogs.org和响应“世界饮食”页面。如果您响应，这将是有益的，如果你能在世界的哪个国家或地区响应。如果您不感兴趣，它会大加赞赏，如果你能传递给朋友或同事可能。

我们在新罕布什尔州期待你的回应。谢谢

克里斯加尼翁 - 6年级的老师

Hey Maggi,

Our Brainyflix video contest just ended, and I wanted to thank you for helping us get the word out. We got 800 submissions from across the country!

That said, MIT was really happy with the results and will let us run another contest, so we're going for it! But this time, we're gonna have kids create Brainypics flashcards - which are images and sentences paired up with a one of our SAT/ACT words. The contest ends May 22nd, and there'll be iTunes and a cash prize like last time. To boot, we'll double the payout if the kids can hit a certain goal. More details at brainyflix.com/main/contest_rules.

Do you mind passing my message along to students and your colleagues again?

Thanks,
Jack

Hi Maggi, interesting blog...nice to meet you ; )

Hi Maggi. Happy New Year from Adelaide, Australia. :-)

Hello Maggi I was really interested to read your comments about using the virtual classroom in Korea. Have you used videoconferencing with other countries? We worked with a school in Korea when one of my friends from Australia was there. It was a great success but she has now returned to Australia and our connections are lost.

Hi Maggi,

My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham, MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. Since you are in the 'e-learning and online teaching' group, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2009, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win a competition for startup funding on ideablob.com. You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975 . We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

Thanks,

Alyshia Olsen
anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

Cheers, Maggi, and thanks for the collegial invite!

Hey, you probably already know about his stuff, but, I have a blog on Edublogs, and so does Larry Ferlazzo, and ESL/ELL educator in California. Anyway, Larry has the most extensive Web 2.0 resources linked off his blog than any place I have ever seen. For what it's worth.

-Tim

Haha thank you!

Hi Maggi,

You're most welcome.

Mark