Kidlink Chat on April 19, 2007: "Inviting friends"

Inviting Friends
Chat in KidCom's Who-Am-I? Room
Thursday April 19 2007 at 13:30 GMT

Invite your Kidlink friends to a three-day virtual holiday where you
live. "Virtual" means that they will travel to see you on the Internet.
Cheap. Fun. Easy. How can you make your area interesting to the
others? Send out an invitation so that many wants to visit just you.
The visits will take place later in April. Now, we just send invitations.

Invitation to visit Oppdal in Norway , 1999

Sample invitations from previous Virtual Vacations:

"We are from Azov, Russia. We study at the Politechnical College (secondary) We are 16-17 years old boys and girls who are very friendly, like musik, computers, sport and many other interesting things. We want to know about other people life and culture. Come visit us!" Invitation for this year from Lena, Vika, Andrey, and Rustam and others
"Vist us for a jeep tour around glaciers and hotsprings. We are 12 and 11 years old, and live in Villingaholtshreppur in southern Iceland . Geysir is the best known hotspring in the world. It is 18 meters long and 20 meters deep. Haifoss in Fossriver is the second higest waterfall in Iceland, 122 meters high. Thingvallavatn is the biggest lake in Iceland, 83,7 square kilometers. Thingvellir is a very important place in Icelandic history. Skalholt is a famous place in Icelandic history. For ages the Icelandic bishop lived there." More..
"Arriving with plane to airport Brniki at 8 o clock. I will come and pick you up and then we shall go by bus to Ljubljana (30 min drive) to my place. After breakfast we shall go around our city, which is the capital of Slovenija . We shall look at: the fountain of Robba (from 1751), the Roman wall (Ljubljana exists since 1st. cent. before Christ and was called Emona), the monument of Preseren (the most famous Slovenian poet) by the Three bridges over Ljubljanica river and then go to the Castle. It is from the 16th sentury and lies on 366m high hill. From the tower is nice view over Ljubljana. For the lunch we could go to Diary Queen Fast Food, which is very popular or to Slovenian inn. In the afternoon we will look in some shops and then go to the ZOO, where we have: brown bear, aegle, roe deer, red deer, wulf, snakes, lynx, ducks..." Click here for the full invitation.
Examples from 1999, iInvitations for Muggió in Italy (2000). invitation for Macau (2002), and for Fresno in California, USA (2003)
Inviting friends (part of the Who-Am-I? program): Curriculum connections; Practical tips about use in classrooms; Supplementary resources; Workshop; Signing up to participate with your students. Participating in chats is not required to do this lesson!
Preparation for students (discussions): How can you make your area interesting to others? Are there interesting places in the neighbourhood? Did anything interesting happen there in the past? Did any famous people ever live there? What is the easiest way for visitors to get to your area? Do you live near an international airport/harbour/train station? How do you get from the airport/harbour/train station to your home?
Interesting background reading for your students: April 1st chat on "Inviting Friends" (log). The Tourism track of My Future Job. "WELCOME TO ÅFJORD KOMMUNE". Kidlink's Multi Cultural Calendar. The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping. Latitude and Longitude. All kind of information-World wide.

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