Description of the project - Example sfrom South Indian Cities

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Examples from South Indian Cities

Description of the project:

I am Joseph Talaiver. I am 14 years old. I will be helping my brother David who is 11 in this project.

We will be visiting five Indian cities:

Madras,
Madurai,
Bangalore,
Vellore, and
Hydrabad.

We will also visit some villages. As we travel around the area, we will capture the images using a digital camera and write a story to the picture. These stories and pictures will describe the beauty of India. We will focus on the contrast between:

poverty and wealth;
rural and urban;
knowledge and illiteracy;
manufacturing industries and cottage industries.

As we move from one place to another we will send our daily journal with the pictures whenever possible. Most of you will be on holidays. We understand you will not be able to use your school computer. So, our parents have changed our travel plan to accommodate at least one week in December and another week in January. This will help us to send email from Madras. After we come back, we will be willing to offer any questions and give you feedback to continue this project.

Objectives:

We will learn about the differences (contrasts) that exist in India.

We will show you the wealth of India including its rich historic resources and the gold jewelry shops.
Instead of illiteracy, we will show how computer academies and manual laborers co-exist.
You will learn about the religions in India and how they celebrate Christmas.
You will learn the differences between the way Hindus and Christians celebrate New Year.

Activities:

Read our email about project

Send us email by December 14 to kuldip@md2.vsnl.net.in with the subject line "For Joseph & David"
Then you are with us on the project. We will also be reading the KIDPROJ list looking for your questions. Look forward to our email on:

Leaving the US
December 15 from Madras about our trip to London
December 17 from Hyderabad about Madras
December 19 from Madras about Madras
December 28 from Madurai about Christmas
January 2nd from Madras, January 6th about Bangalore
January 9th other matters
January 16th - final saga!
February 1: we will post our pages on the web and we continue to give you feedback and answer any questions.

What you have to do:

Ask us questions. Give us ideas about what pictures you want. We will try to provide you good feedback. Send us your feedback to the KIDPROJ list. We will be reading it when we can get email. Follow the "Join Kidlink" link to learn more about subscribing to the KIDPROJ email list.

Joseph & David
joedave@richmond.infi.net

Information Contact: Patti Weeg, Title 1 Computer Teacher, Delmar El. School, Delmar, Maryland, USA. Homepage: http://www.globalclassroom.org

KIDPROJ WWW Contact: Diane Smith, Internet Facilitator, Kent Learning Center, Seattle, WA, USA, Homepage: http://www.halcyon.com/maywood

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Updated December 12, 1998