Patti Weeg

Bob Davis

The annual ONLINE LEARNING AWARD CONTEST recognizes "Kidlink Day in Kidlink's KidSpace, a Place for Kids to Publish and Share" as an exemplary telelearning activity.

Kidlink Day in KidSpace was created by Patti Weeg, Bonnie Thurber, and Bob Davis as volunteers of the Kidlink Organization. Patti Weeg teaches at Delmar Elementary School, Delmar, MD, USA. Bonnie Thurber and Bob Davis work for the Northwestern University Collaboratory Project, Evanston, IL, USA.

As part of being honored with an Award of Special Merit - "The Cyber Golden Hearts", Weeg, Thurber and Davis have been invited to present a synopsis of the project at the National Educational Computing Conference 2002 (NECC) in San Antonio, Texas (USA), from June 17-19, 2002.

The Online Learning Award is sponsored by the Special Interest Group Telelearning (SIGTel) of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and is judged by an international panel.

The honored project will be archived on the SIGTel Web site, and the awardees will each receive a one-year standard membership in the International Society for Technology in Education and the Special Interest Group SIGTel, as well as a certificate honoring their achievement.

Kidlink is a global non-profit organization hosting discussions about life between kids and youth around the world. It operates 86 public conferences in 19 languages, a private chat network, and a multi-lingual web site of more than 100,000 pages.

Kidlink's KidSpace is a place for kids to publish and share on the Internet that runs in an ordinary web browser. It is designed to support online collaboration between students and educators. It offers a simple interface for creating and managing dynamically generated webpages, and allowing peer feedback and comments. Contributions are reviewed by teacher/managers. Appropriate content is made visible to the public on the web.

Bonnie and Bob (right) at the Award Ceremony