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Postings from Participants of Landmark Game
Students from Kaimuki High School
Dear Mount,
I'm very pleased that you are going to put our picture on the Landmark web
page. The students extended the project by bowing up a world map and locating
the landmarks which they correctly guessed by using miniature yellow flags.
Additionally, they wrote blurbs with basic facts about these landmarks and
attached them to the perimeter of the map (not shown in the picture because
picture was taken before they did the second part of the assignment). The
bulletin board behind Cynthia has all the landmark clues posted. Questions
and correctly guessed answers were noted on the clue sheets.
Our school is a public high school 99-12) in urban Honolulu, Hawaii. We
are just a stone's throw away from the flagship campus of the University
of Hawaii and about a mile from the famed landmark Diamond Head. We have
an ethnically diverse student body. The picture depicts our diversity. Cynthia
is from Korea but lived in Missouri before coming to Hawaii. The two boys
are Vietnamese.
Thank you for a great e-mail game.
Aloha from Hawaii.
Grace Fujiyoshi
>Hi, > I am so disappointed that my connection went
awry. You
>were the first on my list of aliases and I heard from you so I
>thought all was OK. I have made a change in my mailbox list of
>landmark aliases so I hope I get the clues out this time. I
>would certainly like to know what I did wrong. I eliminated
>spaces between the aliases--this system is so sensitive!!
> Thanks for the project!! Is it one that is conducted
>every year? I would love to do it again and plan a unit around
>it.
> Sincerely,
> Sarina Coffin
>
>Dear Carol,
> >First of all, another big thank-you for running this game! It's
a great idea
>and got my students excited about research. It was also our very first
>whole-class e-mail project.
> >I'm sure it was hectic for you, and I hate to add to that, but
. . .
> 1) we have yet to receive responses to all of our guesses, some of
>which were sent two weeks ago. I know there's been trouble with our
e-mail
>address, so I don't know if that's it. Some of the students have been
left
>hanging, so we don't know what our score is.
> 2) Per your request, I will attempt to re-create which schools
>correctly guessed our clues. Unfortunately, I didn't keep "paper
track" as I
>responded electronically and reported immediately. Sorry.
>Shalom Carol, >
> > I think this is a good idea!!!
>As you already know our land mark - do you need any other information?
>We will be gald to help!
>BTW - do you have plans to play this game next year too? in what part
of
>the year? I try to think how it will fit one of the classes ;-)
>Thanks again, Hannah
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>We at Kempsville Middle School are interested in knowing
how we
>did in the over all picture. Perhaps you are on Spring Break,
>or just busy. When you can please let us know
> >Thank you the game was fun.:-)
> > ............................................
>Rick Swift ."Remember, the music is not in the piano.".
>(rswift@pen.k12.va.us) . Clement Mok .
> ............................................ >
>Dear Carol,
>Do you want us to resubmit our answers to the participating schools
or wait
>and see if they will respond to your request. To date, LoneRock school
from
>Stevensville answered our landmark correctly first. Then we received
replies
>from your school and another school in Pa that we had trouble emailing
too.
>I'll have to look when I get to school and check on that participant.
I
>did finally answer them from the project board because I kept receiving
a
>failed message reply in my mailbox.
> I hope you will do this next year. My class enjoyed the challenge and
>we believe that we successfully answered about 12 correctly although
we only
>heard replies from 2 schools. We had trouble getting all of the clues
sorted
>out the first week and a half but did better after that. I feel more
confident
>to try this again another time. Thanks for the challenge.
>Jane Rhodes
>email:janer@bigsky.dillon.mt.us
>"Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps."-Macaulay
>---
>Jane,
>Dear Carol,
>Thanx for the partial data! I am at home (my 11 yr old broke her elbow
>last night at gymnastics :-(.....), and if we correctly guessed any
of
>the missing ones, I'll let you know tomorrow. I left that folder at
>school this morning.
>Have a good day. Thank you again for the *great* job you have done on
>this. I would like to do it again next year. You would be great at it!
>Warm regards, >Barbara > >
>Dear Carol,
> >We like the game it's great ! We hope to collect all the clues
and
>try them out again because we were having our vacation at the peak of
>the game. We do not want to miss the fun.
>We hope you have received our previous emails regarding our
>landmark. Anyway, we will let you know again because we see that in
>your answer key there was a blank against SMBB.
>Our landmark is "DATARAN MERDEKA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia".
>Thank You for organizing the game.
>Chop's Black Cougers
>Sekolah Menengah Bukit Bandaraya,
>Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur. >
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