• Who Am I?
  • Activity 6: "Go to the RESPONSE Searcher and" replaced by "Go to Kidlink's public database of registered kids and"
• What do I want to be when I'm older?
  • Introduction, paragraph 1 - deleted: "I hope that by now you know yourself, your classmates and your online classmates a little bit better."
  • Activity 6: " What type of personality can be applied to each of the following famous people? Albert Einstein, Mother Theresa, Pablo Picasso, Amadeus Mozart, Mohandas Ghandi, Leo Tolstoy, Queen Elizabeth, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Gauguin, Michael Jordan, Andrea Agassi, Walt Disney, Bill Gates, Marie Curie. Make your own list and share with the other classes participating online. Classes must explain how they think their chosen famous people accomplished their fame."
    replaced by
    "Make a list of famous people. Read about their lives and achievements. What type of personality can be applied to each of the famous people? Explain how do you think your chosen famous people accomplished their fame. Make drawings to illustrate your work and share with other classes participating online. Publish your work on Kidlink's publishing place: Kidspace."
    
• How would I want the world to be better when I'm older?
  • Activity 1: "Search RESPONSE to see..." replaced by "Search Kidlink's public database of registered kids to see"
  • Activity 3: " Picture your community in the year 2098. Write a short story describing something in your community in the year 2098 showing the picture you imagine." replaced by "Picture your community 100 years from now. Write a short story describing something in your community in this future year showing the picture you imagine."
  • Activity 3: "Share the address with the other WAI program participants. " replaced by "Share the address with the other Who-am-I? program participants."
• What do I have to do to make the world a better place?

Where Do I Live?

• Can You Find Me?
  • Question 14 - deleted: "See the Kidlink game about famous landmarks."
  • Question 19 - deleted: "See how other Kidlink kids have described their heroes. [in Spanish - Mi Heroe] "
• Living Things Where I Live
  • Question 15 - deleted: "Visit Kidlink's Yesterday and Today Popular Games project to see the kinds of games kids play around the world."
  • Question 16 - deleted: "See the Multicultural Recipe Book compiled by Kidlink kids. "
  • Question 17 - deleted: "Visit Kidlink's Multicultural Calendar."
  • Question 18 - deleted: Kidlink kids enjoy teaching each other words and phrases from their languages:
    • Diccionario virtual en español
    • Let's Practice! [Vamos Praticar!]
    • Celebrating Our Diversity"
  • Activity 2: "Search the Response database and see if kids from your place select similar jobs that you see there. " replaced by "Search Kidlink's public database of registered kids to see if kids from your place select similar jobs that you see there."
  • Activity 10: "on IRC" replaced by "Kidlink's Chat". Link replaced by http://www.kidlink.org/english/general/irc.html
• The Places Where I Learn
  • Activity 1 - deleted: "See how Kidlink kids describe A Kidlink Day."
• Our Global Village
  •  Activity 4 - deleted: "You might want to add them to the Multi-Cultural Calendar in Kidlink."

What Are My Rights?

• What Are Rights?

  • Question 10: New link to "summary pages": http://www.unicef.org/voy/explore/rights/explore_148.html

• The Right To Be Me

  • Activity 2: "RESPONSE is the area of KIDLINK where you can see how KIDLINK kids have answered the 4 KIDLINK questions. Take a look in the RESPONSE archives and see if you can guess where the students live. Do our names identify our country? Divide your class into small groups and look at the RESPONSE archives." replaced by "Review how KIDLINK kids have answered the 4 KIDLINK questions in our membership archives. Do our names identify our country? Divide your class into small groups and look at the archives."

  • Activity 3: "send it to the listserv." replaced by "send it to the mailing lis."

  • Activity 5 - deleted: "See 'Personal Thermometers' from other Kidlink kids"

• Special Needs

• How Can I Be Heard?

  • Activity 3: "Arrange to meet another class on KIDLINK IRC and talk about some of these discussion questions in real time. " replaced by "Arrange to meet another class on Kidlink's chat network and discuss some of these questions."

• How Can I Be Safe?

  • Introduction, 3rd paragraph: "On Kidlink IRC she" replaced by "On Kidlink's chat network, she"

  • Question 7: "Search the World Wide Web" replaced by "Search the Web for information."

  • Activity 1: "Post to the listserv." replaced by "Post to the mailing list."

  • Activity 4: "chat on Kidlink IRC" replaced by "chat on Kidlink Chat Network"

  • Activity 5: "Read and discuss Zlata's Diary as a class. The unedited logfile (81K) of her 4 hour chat on Kidlink Chat Network is also full of Zlata's own words." replaced by "Zlata (10), who lived all throughout a war in Yugoslavia, told her story to Kidlink kids on Kidlink's chat network. Read and discuss her experiences as a class."

• Children @ work

  • Question 9: "What games do kids play around the world? Look at the Kidlink project, Yesterday and Today Popular Games. Ask your friends participating in this project to tell you about the games kids play in their country. Ask grandparents to tell you about games they played when they were young. " replaced by "What games do kids play around the world? Ask your friends participating in Who-Am-I? to tell you about the games kids play in their country. Ask grandparents to tell you about games they played when they were young."

  • Activity 3: "Visit the Kidlink Gallery of Computer Art then spend a class period or two creating some art works that represent you and your country." New link: /KIDART/index.html

• Do I Have Rights At School?

  • Activity 1: "Join other classes on Kidlink IRC" replaced by "Join other classes on Kidlink's Chat Network"

  • Activity 2 - deleted: "Look at the KIDLINK Day project and see how other kids spend their school day."

• Making It Happen

• Question 1: "create one "Kids' Bill of Rights" for this project." replaced by "create one "Kids' Bill of Rights""

• Question 8: "Use a WWW search engine" replaced by "Use a Web search engine"

• Activity 11: "'What Are My Rights?' project." replaced by "'What Are My Rights?' work."

My Friends And Family

• Lesson 1

  • Introduction, paragraph 2: "This module will give you the opportunity to establish contact with young people from different countries. It is important to get to know you, that's why you start this project by sending an introductory message about yourselves, your school and your city or town. Work together as a class and send your presentation to the list used in this project. Pictures and drawing are welcome - or a web page presenting your class, school or the place where you live. If you have a web page, please send us the URL." replaced by (changes boldfaced): "This module will give you the opportunity to establish contact with young people from different countries. It is important to get to know you, that's why you start this module by sending an introductory message about yourselves, your school and your city or town. Work together as a class and send your presentation to the mailing list used in this project. Pictures and drawing are welcome - or a web page presenting your class, school or the place where you live. If you have a web page, please send us the web address."

  • Activity 6: "submit them for the KIDLINK Kidwriter's web site. " replaced by "post them in KidSpace."

  • Activity 18: "While searching for the occupations of your relatives did you find that you don't know what some of the words mean? Do you know what a "clapman" or a "gummer" is? One means the town crier and one means a person who improved old saws by deepening the cuts. Look on this web page to see more interesting definitions of occupations: http://onthenet.com.au/~tonylang/occupa.htm Do all of the occupations still exist today? If they do, has the name changed? If the job is now gone why do you think it is gone? " replaced by "While searching for the occupations of your relatives did you find that you don't know what some of the words mean? Do you know what a "clapman" or a "gummer" is? One means the town crier and one means a person who improved old saws by deepening the cuts. Search the web to see other interesting definitions of occupations: http://onthenet.com.au/~tonylang/occupa.htm Do all of the occupations still exist today? If they do, has the name changed? If the job is now gone why do you think it is gone?

• Lesson 2

• Lesson 3

• Lesson 4

  • Introduction, paragraph 2: "In the first part" replaced by "In the first lesson"

  • Activity 1: "on the module listserv." replaced by "on the module's mailing list."

  • Activity 7: "on the module listserv." replaced by "on the module's mailing list."

  •  

• Lesson 5

  •  Question 1: "on the list for this module. " replaced by "on the mailing list for this module."

What Are My Roots?

• Meet My Family

  • Question 1: "Relate the story to us on our listserv for this module. " replaced by "Relate the story to us on our mailing list for this module. "

  • Question 2: "What was happening in the world during the month you were born? Look on this web page to find out: Any-Year: Today in History Tell us some of the interesting things that were going on in the world. Ask your online friends who are doing this module with you to tell us what events were taking place in the world when they were born." replaced by "What was happening in the world during the month you were born? Search the web to find out. Tell us some of the interesting things that were going on in the world. Ask your online friends who are doing this module with you to tell us what events were taking place in the world when they were born."

  • Question 5: "Share them with us on the listserv." replaced by "Share them with us on the mailing list."

  • Question 8 - deleted: "Visit this website to see more categories of surnames and how they began. See if you can identify the category your surname falls into: Surnames: What's in a Name? Tell the rest of us on the mailing list when you find out. "

  • Question 18: " Look on this web page to see more interesting definitions of occupations: http://onthenet.com.au/~tonylang/occupa.htm replaced by "Search the web or visit the library to find occupations that existed in your country more than 100 years ago."

  • Activity 1: "Visit this website to see a sample "lineage poem" and how they are written. MindSpace Lineage Poems " replaced by "In a "lineage poem", you tell about your "line" of ancestors or family members, your "heritage"...what they have passed down in the way of character traits and values to you...."

  • Activity 4: "Look in the RESPONSE archives to search for Kidlink kids in other countries." replaced by "Search Kidlink's membership database for Kidlink kids living in other countries."

• By Land, Sea or Air

  • Question 1: "Share this with us on the listserv." replaced by "Share this with us on the mailing list."

  • Activity 2 - deleted: "Read Lois Lowry's Number the Stars which is a story of the determination of the Danish people to help the Jews get to safety. Read about the Underground Railroad in the USA and compare it to the action of the Danish Resistance to help the Jews. In Swedish her book is called Den gyllene stjärnan. Book company: B Wahlström förlag , Identification#: ISBN: 91-32-13091-0. Discuss the book as a class and also with any other class in our module who reads the book with you."

  • Activity 3 - deleted: "As a class read and discuss The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder. It is the story of a 12 year old boy, Hans, who searches for his mother and also learns about his heritage and his future. The book was first published in Norwegian Kabalmysteriet (H. Aschehoug & Co - Oslo) but is available in a Dutch title: Het geheim van de kaarten (Houtekiet - Antwerpen), in Spanish and English."
  • Activity 3 (renumbered): "Share the results with the module listserv." replaced by "Share the results with the module mailing list."
  • Activity 4 - deleted: "Read and give a report on Joseph Joffo's book, Un sac de billes, in which he tells the story of an escape to freedom by two brothers in occupied Paris in 1941."

  • Previous activity 5: "As a class read Zlata's Diary and then visit the KIDLINK IRC chat log to see online conversations with KIDLINK kids and Zlata. Arrange to meet other online friends in this module online for IRC and discuss Zlata's experiences." replaced by "Zlata (10), who lived all throughout a war in Yugoslavia, told her story to Kidlink kids on Kidlink's chat network. Arrange to meet other participants in this module to discuss her experiences."

  • Activity 8 (renumbered): "KIDLINK IRC" replaced by "Kidlink's Chat Network"

• Looking Back in Time

  • Question 3: Visit this web page for Countries Ranked by Population . You will find information about population growth in countries around the world. How has the population of your country grown since 1950? Visit this web page - Population Pyramids - to see graphs of population growth for the year 1997 and projected to the years 2025 and 2050. " replaced by "Search the web to find countries ranked by population, population growth, and projected growth . How has the population of your country grown since 1950? How is it projected to grow for the next 25 to 50 years?"

  • Question 7: "Visit the KIDFORUM topic "My Fellows" and contribute to the collection of outstanding individuals who have helped make our countries what they are today." replaced by "Tell about outstanding individuals who have helped make our countries what they are today."

  • Activity 2: "Visit the web site that shows Countries Ranked by Population and make a graph of the population growth of your area since 1950. " replaced by "Make a graph of the population growth of your area since 1950. "

• As My Branch Grows

  • Question 1: "When others on the listserv" replaced by "When others on the mailing list"

  • Question 10: "Explain them to us on the listserv." replaced by "Explain them to us on the mailing list. "

  • Activity 9: "Use IRC to see if you can design a logo with someone in another school or to talk about the symbols you have chosen." replaced by "Use Kidlink's Chat Network to see if you can design a logo with someone in another school or to talk about the symbols you have chosen."

  • Activity 10 - deleted: "Some countries will soon start using the Euro currency. If you are in a Euro country, draw pictures of how you would like the new money to look. Use anything that you think symbolises your country as a part of Europe. Talk about the symbols you have used and about the symbols on your old currency. Use IRC to talk about the symbols you have used with someone in another school. If your country is not going to use the Euro yet you can still do this activity."

Virtual Vacation

• Inviting friends

  • Activity 1: "(remember to write down the URLs - you can put them in the invitation). On the Resource page you can find some useful URLs." replaced by "(remember to write down the web addresses - you can put them in the invitation). On the Resource page you can find some useful links." Note that the link at "Resource" has been changed to /kie/nls/english/vacation/resl.html !

  • Activity 2 - deleted: "In Kidlink in Danish, Hanne Bentzen has written an extra part on relationships in the Virtual Vacation project. They are working together with The Danish Radio-new school TV program, and they will show some clips about European countries. They will also show some of the students at work in the project. You might like to see that."

  • Activity 5 (new): "send the URL to the list." replaced by "send the web address to the list."

  • Activity 7 (new): "At any point in the project" replaced by "At any point in the Virtual Vacation module,"

• Where do you want to go?

  • Introduction, paragraph 3: " look up Kidlink's RESPONSE Archives and search for kids from that place who have answered the four questions." replaced by "search for kids from that place who have answered the four questions in Kidlink's Member Archive."

  • Activity 2: "Is there a great difference in time between your home and this place?" New link: http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/test/dualclock.html

• Planning your 3 day visit

  • Question 3: "What kind of weather can you expect?" replaced by "Search the web to find out about the weather where you are going. What kind of weather can you expect?"

  • Question 7: "Look here it might help." replaced by "Search the web to find dictionaries that might help."

  • Question 10: "How much is 200 EURO in your currency?" replaced by "How much is 100 in their currency in your currency?"Note that the link at "How much" has been changed .

  • Question 11: "What about a passport? What are passports for? Do you need a new passport? Do we need passports to all the countries we travel to? What information is in a passport? " replaced by "What about a passport and a visa? What are passports and visas for? Do you need a new passport or visa? Do we need passports or visas to all the countries we travel to? What information is in a passport or a visa? "

• "Journeys" and "Visitors"

  • Activity 2 - deleted: "What about sending them also to the Multi Cultural Recipe Book?"

  • First line under activities: " Meetings for travellers on IRC travel channel are planned so hosts and travellers can talk about what they are doing. " replaced by "Meetings for travellers on Kidlink's Chat Network are planned so hosts and travellers can talk about what they are doing. "

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