Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1993 13:19 +0200 From: Claus_Berg@skole-kom.uni-c.dk Subject: 67 kb!!! Special issue Newsletter #0 KIDLINK Newsletter #0 Global Networking for Youth 10-15 The KIDS-94 Newsletter Special Issue: Denmark, Snekkersten Number 0, June 17, 1993 European Conference on the Use of Databases and Telecommunications in Education. ----------------------------------- 1. ``I want people to be independent.'' 2. KIDLINK NATIONS 3. The KIDLINK Society 4. KIDFORUM 5. Danish teachers about KIDLINK in the Classroom 6. Lehrer Helmut Rogge, Deutche Schule, Hadersleben, Daenemark erzaehlt 7. KIDLINK has now it's own "Gopher" running 8. KIDLINK GENERAL: "What is KIDLINK?" 9. KIDLINK CONTACTS: "Where to get help" WHAT IS KIDLINK? KIDS-94 is a grassroots project aiming at getting as many children in the age group 10 -15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. KIDLINK is the name of the organization that runs the yearly KIDS-nn projects. The preceding projects, KIDS-91, KIDS-92, and KIDS-93, had around 10,000 participating children from 50 countries on all continents. In its simplest form, the dialog will be an exchange of personal presentations and views on the desired future of this world. The means of communication may be ordinary mail, fax, video conferencing, ham radio, or whatever. This special issue of the "Danish" KIDLINK Newsletter was edited and printed in June 1993, during the European Communities Conference in Snekkersten, Denmark.. The aim of the conference was to set focus on Databases and Telecommunications in Education. Please don't hesitate to ask, if you need additional information, DEMO-disk's, etc. Claus Berg, teacher, KIDLINK-coordinator Internet: Claus_Berg@skole-kom.uni-c.dk Adr.:Vaerebrovej 52,7.1, DK2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark Telephone (and fax; but please phone me first!): (+45) 44 98 14 31 ----------------------------------- 1. ``I want people to be independent.'' The goal of KIDS-94 is to get as many 10-to-15-year-old children as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog continuing until May 7th 1994. On May 8th, 1994, we start the 12-month KIDS-95 project All participating children are required to answer these questions: 1) Who am I? 2) What do I want to be when I grow up? 3) How do I want the world to be better when I grow up? 4) What can I do now to make this happen? KIDLINK has now received answers to these questions from 50 countries around the world. Here are some recent responses: >From Kuwait 1. I'm a boy. My name is Matus Navrat. My nationality is Slovakia (which was Czechoslovakia before its split) but presently I live in Kuwait. I am 13. Here in Kuwait I visit Gulf English school. In my country I visit school with extended learning of foreign languages. My favorite sport is basketball and I often swim. I like football, baseball, voleyball, hockey and rugby as well. I like playing with computer games very much. 2. I want to work with computers in my job. Maybe I should like to program computers. With computers the work can be creative and I can create new things. Or I want to be a politic leader which joins all the planets and nations in universe. I want to finish the higher education, too. 3. There are many things I want them to be in the future. My opinion is that the wars which are still going on in countries such as Afganistan and Yugoslavia must stop. My hope is that it will be done soon. Then I think that people have to take a bigger care about the environment, which we all share. If someone is polluting and poisoning this environment it has of course bad effect on all of us. I mean the effect is not only on those which are close to the source of the pollution, but in smaller scale it influences all other living things. 4. I want the people to join together and do something against the polluters and tyrans which are leading the wars. It is of course hard to reach such goal, but if we do not do something against them, they will surely kill nature and ourselves as well. I would also like this issue to include some clips from the KIDFORUM item's till now. I would be glad to say, that I was willing to give a helping hand writing this, but I'm afraid it's impossible this time. >From Makerere College School, Kampala, Uganda My names are Mwesigwa. Viola. I am 13 years old. I am the humblest girl in our family. I am not greedy. I like helping my sisters and brothers. I also want to be friendly to the house girl. I want to be an accountant in a bank, factory / industry. If not that I want to become a doctor/ nurse. If not I want to become a business woman e.g shopkeeper etc. I want the world to have peace, get everything the people want. I want people to be independent. What I can do is to study hard, become a politician and a friend of the current president. >From Guatemala 1. My name is Stefan Benchoam. Im a boy. I dont like school very much. I live in Guatemala city. My school name is American School of Guatemala. I have a dog and a lizard. I have 3 brothers. I like sports and music. 2. When I grow up I want to be a basketball pleyer. A golf pleyer and go to the P.G.A. tour. A very good comedient. And an architect and bild buildings all over the world. And at last be an owner of a Recicling factory. 3. I would like everybody to recicle when I grow up. I would like the oil drilling to stop. Use california admicion cars. don't use things that are gasoline. Use horses to walk, or to walk. 4. Build recicle factorys. Have a meeting with the president and tell the peoples to recicle. Give bags sow they put the trash in the bags. Give papers to the people that say don't throw papers in the flor. ----------------------------------- 2. LISTSERV @VM1.NoDak.EDU Emne: File: "KIDLINK NATIONS" LIST of countries in KIDLINK projects ===================================== Participating countries are counted by receipt of answers to the four KIDLINK questions. by June 12, 1993 Country KIDS-91 KIDS-92 KIDS-93 KIDS-94 ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- Argentina * * Armenia * Australia * * * Austria * Brazil * * * * Canada * * * * Chile * * China * * Costa Rica * Czechoslavakia * * Denmark * * * * England * * * * Estonia * * * Finland * * * * Germany * * * * Guatemala * Honduras * Iceland * * India * Ireland * * * * Israel * * Italy * * * Japan * * * Kazakhstan * Kenya * Korea * Kuwait * Latvia * * Lithuania * * Malaysia * Mexico * Netherlands * * New Zealand * * * Norway * * * * Peru * * Poland * * Romania * * * Russia * * * Saudi Arabia * Singapore * South Africa * * * Spain * * Suriname * Sweden * * * Switzerland * * Taiwan * Thailand * Uganda * Ukrain * * USA * * * * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of countries: 30 37 30 12 Accumulated number : 45 50 50 ----------------------------------- 3. The KIDLINK Society KIDLINK is the brainchild of Project Director Odd de Presno, and up to now it has kind of been his ``intellectual property''. Not so any more! On March 6th, 1993, the KIDLINK Society was founded. All rights to the KIDLINK grassroots movement were handed over to the new non-profit organization on this date. The Articles of Association were electronically signed by Dan Wheeler (USA), Claus Berg (Denmark), Oscar Becerra T. (Peru), Mike Burleigh (England), Lara Stefansdottir (Iceland), Richard Naylor (New Zealand), and Odd de Presno (Norway). You will find the full text of the Articles of Association in the file KIDLINK AOFA . To retrieve this file, send a message to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU . In the TEXT of the message write GET KIDLINK AOFA We quote from the Articles of Association: Membership in the KIDLINK Society is open to any person or organization wishing to support the purpose and goals of the KIDLINK Society. There are three types of membership: (1) individual membership, (2) organizational membership, and (3) youth membership. ... The founding members of the Society has elected themselves as the Board for the duration of KIDS-94. We simply need some time to get organized, and in the online world things like this takes time. By the end of KIDS-94, there will be a common election among all members. The KIDLINK Board is to consists of one representative from each of the following six world areas: (1) Europe, (2) Africa, (3) Asia, (4) Pacific, (5) North America, and (6) Central and South America, plus the Project Director. We currently only have dues established for individual members. The Society have two types of individual membership: Ordinary member: US$ 25,- Sponsoring member: US$ 100,- Payment of dues may be done using VISA, EuroCard/Mastercard, and American Express, as well as by bank transfer. (All the founding members have paid their dues.) ** IMPORTANT NOTE: You do *not* need to be a member to participate in KIDLINK. All our activities have been free and will continue to be free!!! The membership application form is in the file KIDLINK DUES . Add the command GET KIDLINK DUES to the command above to get this form. ----------------------------------- 4. KIDFORUM Last autumn the ``Kidleaders'' in KIDLINK started to discuss the need for planned activity for the participating children for short periods like 4-6 weeks. Before we had KIDCAFE constant dialouge and KIDPROJ where longer projects take place. The result was a new activity KIDFORUM, a forum for children with a given topic for 4-6 weeks at a time. Our first topics was "Festivals" which started in November and was very successful. Children wrote about their celebrations from many parts of the world and introduced to each their different culture. After this one topic after another came; "Environment 2093" focusing on how the children expected the environment to be after 100 years, "Native Literature" - where the children read a book written by an author born in their area introducing different literature, "Cost of Living" - calculating the cost of basic needs, luxury and at the same time focusing on that "best things in life are free". Teachers have found KIDFORUM an effective place to scedule their class activities and take part in planning future topics. Of course individual participants join in. At first the teachers were hesitative to moderate the activities but soon they found out that it was a valuable experience. One of them Joann E. Wilson from Nebraska said about moderating a KIDFORUM topc: I would say it's roughly equivalent to adding another class to your day. However, I think you'll find that it's much more exciting than your routine classes. You'll relish each contribution and ponder observations from other KIDLEADRs. You'll want to talk about latest developments with anyone who will listen. Your colleagues ad students will be thinking, ``Get a grip.'' You'll not begrudge time and energy spent moderating a KIDFORUM topic. It's rewarding and energizing. She has proved to be right because some of the former moderators have already offered to moderate again and come up with suggestion for topics. The children enjoy their participation which showed when they valuated the topic "Cost of Living" one of them said: I think this kidforum project was neat and a lot of fun. It's neat to see how much a loaf of bread costs in Germany or how much a pound of meat costs in Georgia. I wish it didn't have to stop. This project was fun. I think I liked the one we did about earth better, but this one was neat too. Valerie Gardner Hastings-Mallory School New York, USA During the summertime on the northern hemisphere the activity is not as much but the countries in the southern part participate as well as those who have summer camps in the north. KIDFORUM is an good example of the possibilities of our constantly scrinking world. It brings us closer to other participants in the global classroom whom the children meet and learn to know sometimes even better than some of their classmates. Kaer kvedja L ra ================================= L ra Stef nsd"ttir The Icelandic Educational Network (ISMENNT) lara@ismennt.is KHI v/Stakkahlid, 105 Reykjavik, Iceland Tel: +1-683230 Modem: +1-683370 ================================= 5. Danish teachers about KIDLINK in the Classoom Here's a report from the teachers of Roenbaekskolen in Hinnerup, Denmark - on how they have been using KIDLINK in the curriculum activities. This school was one of the very active contributors to the KIDCAFE in the first three month of 1993. Teacher Torben Ludvigsen; Internet-address: Torben_Ludvigsen@skole-kom.uni-c.dk begins: =============================================================== _ __ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ ___ _ _ |_) | /| |\ | |_) /|_ | / (_` | / | | | |__ |\ | | \ |/_| | \| |_) /-|__ | \_ ,_) | \_ |__| |__ |__ | \| =============================================================== o__ ____ | 0 | (The ROENBAEKSCHOOL) |oooooo| /A\ AADALSVEJ 100, DK8382 HINNERUP /A\ |__0___| /AAAAAAA\ DENMARK /AAAAAAA\ | /AAAAAAAAAAAAA\ /AAAAAAAAAAA | /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA\ /AAAAAAAAAAAAAA | /_________________________\ /_________________ |===| _______ |=================| _______ | | | | | | | | | | | | |___| | | | |______| |______| | | | | |________|__|__|________| |________|__|__|_ =============================================================== E-MAIL ADDRESS: Torben_Ludvigsen@skole-kom.uni-c.DK =============================================================== Hinnerup den 11.juni 1993 Presentation of the school. The Roenbaekschool started in 1970 and is normal public school situated 18 kilometers north west of Aarhus. The school has 437 pupils divided up into 25 classes. The children have the age from 6 - 16, and comes mostly from families working in Aarhus but living i Hinnerup, which is the name of our town. The staff concists of 46 teachers most of them full time employed but some part time.The Roenbaekschool is single-storeyed school surrounded by green areas amd a beatiful forest in the neigh-bourhood. The school is building up the computer teaching in these years, and at the moment we have at our disposal 16 PC's for the the teaching,9 placed in a computer room and the rest on rolling tables in different classroom, the rooms for special need and in the school library. The start of SchoolCom. The start was a introduction meeting at UNI-C in Aarhus for two years ago.We had an old modem at the school, but nobody paid too much attention to the possibilities in datatransmissiom. As we heard about very reasonable conditions to get contact with different databases and possibilities for international con-tacts through KIDLINK, we decided to join the general knowledge in using computers in teaching. Therefore we were very much avare of the fact,that we had to make the whole thing so user-friendly as possible. From the very beginning with PC's at the school, we had worked with WINDOWS, and because of that, we purchased the communication program PROCOMM PLUS for WINDOWS, and we find this softvare really good, even we in between had had minor problems with the special danish characters. Our dial-menu is worked out with script files, so the only thing the user have to do, is to point and click, and then wait a little until you are online with the connection you have choosed in the menu. During some years we have had 2-3 hours in our time table, which we called data support. These lessons were given to a qualified teacher, who so to say manned the computer room, with the posibility for all teachers to use the computers without being familiar with the computers themselves. After short time some teachers lost the fear for the new tecnology and felt aquainted with certain programs,and then dared to go to the computer room without ``safety net''. These ``double-teacher'' lessons have been used to inform both teaachers and classes, who wants to get started with KIDLINK. About the external databases we mostly have been using the news databases and library databases. The POLTEXT base have supplied some older classes vith articles concerning subject in their project works, such as Newnazism and whale hunting. The articles have been downloaded on discettes by the teachers and the delivered to the pupils for further use in a word processing program. Promotion of the idea at the school. In the beginning the project was brought to the school by a single teacher,and he mentioned to a couple friendly collegues, that he was preparing the system to work. Next step was an information poster put up on the wall in the staff room. The poster was home-made and collage like containing information about the KIDLINK-project. Through some foto-copies the it was explained how data communication works, and then some text about the whole KIDLINK idea,taken from a KIDLINK Newsletter. The two conferences RESPONSE and KIDCAFE were presented, respectively by ``The four Questions'' and some Kidcafe-letters. Finally the KIDLINK-logo was enlaged and made very visibel for all. In each classroom from grade 5 to 10 we put up a little poster with the KIDLINK-logo,information about KIDLINK-projekt and the RESPONSE-conference including' 'The four Questions''. Futhermore we installed the demo-programs KIDSHOW and HUMBLE-DEMO on the PC in the staff-room and in one PC in our computer-room. Finally we were carefull to mention all initiaves about KIDLINK in the school-magazine. How do we organize us. >From the beginning it was planned, that all interested teachers should be able to send and download letters from the conferences, but very soon we had to realize, that our computer knowledge generally speaking wasn't good enough to integrate this work in each class. Thereforewe we arranged it so, that a teacher at least twice a week downloaded letters from RESPONSE and KIDCAFE and then copied the files to a set of floppy disks to be used in a word processor. Mostly the classes have used the computer room with the nine computers to read the mail from the disks. Now the classes imidiately could go into the the conferenses, and pick up interesting letters and prepare a return letter. In the beginning we send our letters in the conferences, but as we got to know the communication system better we started up to answer direct through the E-mail address. Classes participating in KIDLINK have their own floppy disk for outgoing letters. The transmission of these letters was in the beginning conducted by a computer teacher involved in KIDLINK as the local responsibel. Among the more active and quick teachers it soon came up to work more independent, and these teachers were registered and given their own password to the system. A kind of status. Until now we only had used KIDLINK as a social activity and as a practical language exercise. The participating teachers has been class-teacher and english teachers. No pupils has been forces to paticipate, and actually a couple of classes only participate with some of the students. We have the opinion that it's better to let it be on voluntarily basis, and then wait for the domino effect, which by the way also works very good among the teachers. At the end of this school year four classes are joining KIDLINK, and I know, that a couple more has asked question about participation next year. At the end of this year we have worked hard with the KIDART conference, and at the end succeded to make download and upload of drawings. In order to inform about the possibility and create interest in this activity, we have made a set of discettes containing kidart made of some pupils at our school but mostly drawings downloade from LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU These pictuteres can then be watched through a GIF-viewer. The teachers involved in the subject ``PICTURE ART'' have been contacted and was wery interested to integrate computer art in their teaching next year. use the possibilties for international contacts in projects in the the teaching, and maybe exchange both text and drawings with interested schools. I know that some plans already has been made to start contact children on Iceland by a 12-13 years old group of children. Comments from a couple of the participating teachers. I have worked with Kidlink for 5 months and it really has been an exciting experience. My intention was to get 8th grade started, but within a week my 5th grade was involved too. I wondered how these kids would manage having had English for only 6 months, but they were so keen on trying that I just had to let them try. And how did it work out then? Well, I must admit it was hard work when 21 pupils wanted my attention at the same time, but I stuck to it and what fun it was too. They love to tell about their family, pets, hobbies, favourite music and friends - everything concerning themselves is of great interest! When a letter is finished, they read letters on the computer. When they find one they'll answer we print out the letter and they can now work more intensely with it. When a pupil receives a letter you can feel the spirits rise. It does take some time, but it's worth waiting for. Reading a letter from a person living in another country and getting to know him or her this way is so exciting that they want to learn more English!!! Can you ask for more??? If they haven't received a letter for some time I pursuade them to try again, but this time they'll work with a friend. It gives them new ideas, a good laughter and they enjoy it. Both classes look forward to continuing with Kidlink in August, but during their summer holidays they hope to receive a letter by mail from some of their new penpals all over the world. I have enjoyed it too and look forward to another year with Kidlink. Mie Bundgaard As an English teacher in form six I was very interested in trying KIDLINK as a new way of teaching. Not al pupils in the class were interested in the project, so we chose to let them decide themselves whether to work with KIDLINK or not. About 12 pupils out of 21 started with great enthusiasm and soon after 2 or 3 of them got letters - the others envied them and that encouraged them to find someone to write to themselves. The pupils have got many contacts and spent a lot of time studying letters / writing letters - a very fine practice in English language. We have been working for 1 lesson a week for about 4 months and we have had a very good time. - During the last month we have tried to make drawings with text for KIDART - that has been a great succes too. Marianne Frederiksen Final remarks. This year has been the year, where we have introduced SkoleCom at our school. To start an activity like this demands a few people to go in front. And fortunately we now are a little group, who can take the necessary initiatives and share the work, which after our opinion are important in order to increase the number of participants specially among people, who have a little ``fear'' for computers and this tecnology. -What shall I do, if it dosn't work and so on - Fortunately our work has built up a kind attitude to the project right from our Headmaster and among the teachers. This has has produced 175 earmarked hours to improve SchoolCom and KIDLINK among the staff of the school next year. These hours has been given to two teachers with the task, that during the year a written instruction shall be worked out about how to use SkoleCom with our equipment and a description of some educational aspects. ----------------------------------- On the next page you'll find another report from a school in Denmark. But this is from a German school situated in the Southern part of Jutland. So it's written in German language; KIDLINK is also for non-English activities!...... 6. Lehrer Helmut Rogge, Deutche Schule, Hadersleben, Daenemark erzaehlt: Ja, und als ich gestern KIDS '94 telefonisch bei Claus Berg bestellte, fragte er mich, ob ich nicht einen kleinen Artikel ueber meine Erfarungen mit KIDLINK schreiben wollte, zumal wir uns ja in einer besonderen Situation hier im Koenigsreich befinden. Besondere Situation deshalb, weil unsere Schule deutschsprachig ist, die Deutche Schule Haderslebe (Haderslev). Als einzige der 15 deutchen Schulen im Landesteil Nordschleszig (Sonderjylland) verfuegen wir siet dem Harbst 1992 ueber ein El-mail-Abonnement, KIDLINK. Der Anfang war ungeheuer schwer, alles war so neu, ungewohnt. Kommandos waren zu lernen, einzusetzen, im richtigen Augenblick anzuwenden, dann hatte man es wieder vergessen, also nachschlagen, man wollte an Konferenzen teilnehmen, in denen man nicht mitglied war. Schliesslich noch der Aerger mit den deutchen Buchstaben: "ss, ue, oe, ae". Asci-tabellen gewaehlt, von Procom auf X-MIT umgestellt es half nichts. Viele Male die HOT-LINE bemueht, immer freundliche Hilfe bekommen, wenn jemand da war. Leider war und ist auch immer noch oftmals das Herstellen einer Verbindung sehr schwer, bei mir vor allem merkwuerdigerweise meistens montags und mittwochs. Aber so langsam kam dann doch die Routine, alles spielte sich ein, und auch die ersten Kontakte kamen zustande, nach Oldenburg in Deutchland, nach Sjaelland, nach North-Carolina, USA. Ebenso schrieben unsere Schueler auch nach Italien und Austraulien. Probleme bringt natuerlich auch die Sprache mit sich: der Adressatenkreis ist doch sehr eingeschraenkt, wenn man auf Deutch kommunizieren moechte. Noch, denn die Ausbreitung der Europa sind 100 Millionen Menschen deutchsprachig, ganz zu schweigen vom europaeischen Osten, wo Deutch oftmals 1. Fremdsprache ist. Ein weiteres Problem, mit dem ich wohl nicht allein dastehen duerfte, ist das Popularitaetsniveau dieser Technik unter den Kollegen. Obwohl mehrmals vorgestellt, Hilfe immer wieder angeboten. Reklame gemacht, artikel an Schwarze Brett gehaengt, Kollegen versucht zu ueberreden, in fast jeder Konferenz (laererraadsmoede) darauf hingwiesen - ich blieb ein Einzelkaempfer. Und dann kann einen die Arbeit manchmal ueber den Kopf wachsen, Schueler ansprechen, ihre Texte im Textverarbeitungsprogramm korrigieren, zusammenfletchten, abschicken, auf Antworten achten, uzw., uzw. Das kennen wohl alle. Nun, unser erstes Jahr mit KIDLINK ist fast rum. Und trotz aller Widrigkeiten: Es macht Spass und ist faszinierend. Die Schueler sind sehr motiviert, und einige haben begonnen, sich mit Schuelern anderer Laender auch privat zu schreiben. Damit scheint dann wohl auch das Hauptziel erreicht zu sein: Voelkerverstaendigung, denn die muss hier beginnen, bei unseren Kindern. Durch das Kennenlernen und Kontakte knuepfen mit anderen Anschauungen, Einstelungen, Mentalitaeten, Sprachen, Kulturen, eine Offenheit in unseren Schuelern heranbahnen lassen, die sie neugierig auf "Fremdes" werden laesst und sie in die Lage versetzt, dies zu akzeptieren und als Bereicherung in unser aller Dasein zu begreifen. ----------------------------------- 7. KIDLINK has now it's own "Gopher" running. Everybody with access to the Internet - and to the "telnet"- command can catch valuable information about all aspects of the project in an easy and "low-costly" way. Some have their own Gopher-Client, and will of course also have access to our Gopher. +---------------------------------------------+ Internet Gopher Information Client v1.03 KIDS Gopher! --> 1. Quick Info About This Service. 2. About the KIDLINK Projects/ 3. Finding and Using KIDLINK Services/ 4. KIDLINK in the Classrooms/ 5. KIDLINK People/ 6. KIDART Computer Art Gallery/ 7. Research, Reports, Papers, and Newsletters/ 8. Other Gopher and Information Servers/ +---------------------------------------------+ Press ? for Help, q to Quit, u to go up a menu +---------------------------------------------+ LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU Modtager: Claus Berg Emne: File: ``KIDPLAN GOPHER'' KIDPLAN GOPHER May 18, 1993 A new KIDLINK service is now fully functional and ready for your use. The KIDS Gopher is running on the same IBM RT that was used for the bulk of the Annual Celebration Chat. For those of you who do not know what Gopher means, it is a really nice set of interactive menus allowing you to intuitively move through the entire KIDLINK Archives (except the log files). You need to be able to TELNET to reach it (TELNET 192.88.240.244 login: gopher) or you may also reach it with your own Gopher Client (gopher gopher.kidlink.org). The best feature about this system is that you can browse through the entire library in a few minutes, selecting only those items you want. The Gopher program offers you the option to mail the files to yourself. This is SUBSTANTIALLY easier than the LISTSERV GET commands because you don't need to know anything about the list or file name. If you like what you are reading, you have it mailed to you, it is as simple as that. The menus and files are grouped *functionally* rather than by list name. This makes it much easier to find related information. The menu setup and information offered is dynamic. It will be changed to meet our needs. As of Tuesday, May 18, 1993, the above is what the first menu looks like. That just about says it all. A menu choice that is a file available to view ends in a period (.). A menu choice which leads to a submenu ends with a slash (/). While viewing a file with Gopher, you will use the bar if you want to scroll up to view the next screen. If you have seen enough and want to view something else or maybe receive this file via mail, you can press and you will be given a prompt like this: +-----------------------------------------------------+ Press to continue, to mail, to save, or

to print: +-----------------------------------------------------+ Will take you back to the source menu. You will be asked for an email address. Please enter it carefully. I don't know if this works. You will probably get an error message.

Same as You need to have VT100 set at your mainframe computer. We are working on supporting other terminal types like IBM 3270, but this menu system is heavily dependent on the VT100 emulation, so I have doubts about how much we can do. Bear with us though, we will try. I think that this new system is an *ideal* tool for people doing presentations about KIDLINK or educational telecommunications. It will allow the presenter the ability to present the information at the speed and interest level of the audience. If you have feedback about this system, please e-mail me at mark@kids.ccit.duq.edu of hunnibell@delphi.com Have Fun! Mark Hunnibell KidLink Special Projects Volunteer ----------------------------------- 8. The file KIDLINK GENERAL tells a lot about: "What is KIDLINK?" - "And how do you connect from your network?". There's also hints on, where to retrieve more information..... ( 28436 ) 93-06-14 01:22 LISTSERV@VM1.NoDak.EDU Modtager: Claus Berg Emne: File: ``KIDLINK GENERAL'' WHAT IS KIDLINK / KIDS-94? ========================== KIDS-94 is a grassroots project aiming at getting as many children in the age group 10 -15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. The project will continue until May 7, 1994. KIDLINK is the name of the organization that runs the yearly KIDS-nn projects. The preceding projects, KIDS-91, KIDS-92, and KIDS-93, had around 10,000 participating children from 50 countries on all continents. In its simplest form, the dialog will be an exchange of personal presentations and views on the desired future of this world. The means of communication may be ordinary mail, fax, video conferencing, ham radio, or whatever. We hope that your children be allowed to participate fully, so that they can join the other kids in the ongoing global discussion using electronic mail (email). It is not so difficult, and remember: World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children. To learn about our projects, and keep current about important developments, just subscribe to the KIDLINK news service. You do this by sending an email message to LISTSERV@vm1.NoDak.EDU with the following command in the TEXT of your message: SUB KIDLINK Your-first-name Your-last-name Please use your real name, not a computer name or "Your-first-name Your- last-name". And please note: If you don't subscribe to the KIDLINK service, then you won't know what is going on. THE FIRST STEP: The Personal Presentation ========================================= KIDLINK is free. The children do *not* have to pay money for using our various services, but there is one requirement: The children _have_ to answer these four questions _before starting_: 1: Who Am I? ---------------- Say a little about yourself. What is your name? How old are you? What are some of your interests, your hobbies, your concerns? What else do you want others to know about yourself? Please tell us where you live/the name of your school. 2: What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up? ------------------------------------------- Share your vision of what you want to be when you grow up in terms of work, education, and in general. 3: How Do I Want The World To Be Better When I Grow Up? ----------------------------------------------------------- How would you like to improve the way we treat each other and the environment we share? 4: What Can I Do Now To Make This Happen? --------------------------------------------- What steps can you take now to realize your personal goals and your vision of the world? If you are a teacher or a parent monitoring the young people when they write their answers, please ask them to take the task seriously. Short one line answers are just too "cheap". Answers that are copies of what others write, are no good. Ask them to think independently. Send the answers to the four questions by email to RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU When this is done, the kids are welcome to join and enjoy the rest of what KIDLINK has to offer. Note: Only responses from kids 10 - 15 years of age are allowed to be posted in RESPONSE. Also, please do not send to any other KIDLINK forum! Tip to teachers --------------- It is a good idea to subscribe to the RESPONSE service for some time before asking your kids to write the responses. Consider sharing with your class. Consider using some of the answers in geography or whatever. To get the answers that KIDLINK receives from children around the world on a daily basis, subscribe to the RESPONSE service. You can do this by sending a message to the LISTSERV (see the address above). Write the following command in the body of the text SUB RESPONSE Your-first-name Your-last-name The children's answers will be sent to you regularly as email messages. THE DISCUSSION -------------- The discussion between the KIDLINK people takes place day and night through different computer conferencing systems, bulletin boards, computer networks, and through individual mailboxes. KIDS-94 is not a file area on a hard disk. It is the name of our current email-based project. KIDLINK organizes a series of 24-hour-a-day discussions between children, between adult coordinators, teachers, parents, and other interested persons. The topics are many. Think of it as a series of 24-hour-per-day conferences based on email. You will get more out of your participation in KIDS-94, if you know a little about how things work. So, here we go: What makes our global discussions possible is a computer program running on a large computer in North Dakota, USA. This program is called a LISTSERV. Its purpose is to administer 'discussion lists'. A 'discussion list' is simply a list of email addresses. If you subscribe to the RESPONSE list as explained above, then your email address will be added to the RESPONSE address list, and the LISTSERV will subsequently forward to you all new email sent to RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU. If you subscribe to the KIDLINK news service as explained above, then your personal email address will be added to the "KIDLINK" address list. Later, when the next issue of the KIDS-94 newsletter is ready for distribution, the editor will send it to the "KIDLINK address list" in North Dakota. The LISTSERV program will be the real recipient of the newsletter. Immediately upon receipt, it will forward copies to all addresses on the address list. Only a few people can send messages to the KIDLINK 'discussion list'. It has been set up to be a distributor of official news and announcements. On other lists, like one called KIDCAFE, there are no such restrictions. Any 10 - 15 year old kid can send a message to KIDCAFE using the address KIDCAFE@VM1.NODAK.EDU The LISTSERV will distribute the message to all email addresses on the KIDCAFE list. Thus, it will go to a large number of participants around the world. The "global village of KIDLINK" is a series of such discussion lists, or conferences if you like. All messages in all conferences are routed via the center in North Dakota. Some participants receive the messages directly from this source. Others receive them via other services like the ARCI Computer Club's computer in Bologna, Italy, or the Skole-KOM computer center in Denmark. OVERVIEW -------- Currently, KIDS-94 operates the following discussion lists and services. All of them are for free: KIDLINK The announcement service explained above. RESPONSE The destination for the childrens answers to the 4 questions. Read-only for people outside the 10 - 15 age range. KIDCAFE A forum for kids aged 10 - 15. Read-only for people outside this age group. KIDS-ACT Another forum for kids. Here, they can talk about what THEY can do NOW to achieve their future visions. KIDFORUM an outlet for works by kids on a series of topics specified in advance to promote exchanges between classroom groups of stu- dents. Monthly topics are selected and scheduled in advance so that teachers can make plans for their classes to participate. KIDPROJ a forum enabling teachers/youth group leaders to provide projects for children through the KIDLINK network. KIDLEADR an informal meeting place for teachers, coordinators, parents, social workers, and others interested in KIDS-94. This is where we exchange curriculum ideas, network on a personal level, ask for help, request hello messages, present ourselves, etc. KIDPLAN is a forum for detail planning of KIDS-94 and beyond. These are not dialog forums, but services set up to help the participants: KINDEX allows participants to cope with the large number of messages in KIDCAFE. Once per day, an indexed list of message subject titles is sent to all subscribers. Individual KIDCAFE messages can then be retrieved by sending simple commands to the LISTSERV. KINDEXW works like KINDEX for the other KIDS-94 discussion lists. The list of messages are distributed to subscribers each Sunday. STEP TWO: KIDCAFE ================= This forum is *only* for kids aged 10 - 15. Here, they can talk about whatever they like, find new friends in other countries, discuss the future, hobbies, environment, school, or whatever. If you are a teacher, a good strategy is to have at least two mailboxes. You should have one mailbox for your personal use. The others are for your your students. In this way, it will be easier to separate your private email from mail to your students, and it may become easier to ask the students to help out with the KIDCAFE work. The recommeded route -------------------- Subscribe to KIDCAFE to familiarize yourself with this forum. Unless you have a capacity for handling a large number of messages every day, we suggest that you do it in the following way: Action 1: --------- Subscribe to read all KIDCAFE messages for a limited period of time. Action 2: (24 hours later) -------------------------- Replace the flow of full messages with a daily LIST of messages, from which you can select individual messages to read. NOTE: You should not wait much more than 24 hours before doing this! Action 1: Subscribe to KIDCAFE ------------------------------ Do this by sending another message to LISTSERV (using the address above). In the TEXT of the message write sub kidcafe Your-first-name Your-last-name Action 2: After 24 hours or so .. --------------------------------- Send a new message to the LISTSERV containing the following commands: set kidcafe index get kidlink tips The first line will stop the flow of messages, and give you a short daily report of the mail in KIDCAFE. The second will send you a document, which explains how to retrieve individual messages based on the daily report. Action 3: Involve the students through your mailbox account ----------------------------------------------------------- Present KIDCAFE to your students. Post lists of messages, examples etc. on the wall for all to see. Discuss. Help them write their first messages. Messages to the other children in KIDCAFE should be sent to KIDCAFE@VM1.NODAK.EDU Make sure that the sender of messages write the name of the receiver in the subject title. Example: Subject: To Elisabeth Wu/Panzini school Note: The local adult coordinators should make sure the kids understand that their messages are public and should help them deal with the issues of what is appropriate in a public forum. There will be differences among the sites in both the procedures and the judgements of appropriateness. For instance, some sites may ask kids not to post home addresses, while home addresses may be perfectly acceptable in other areas. Foul language is not permitted. Suggestion: Regularly print out messages from RESPONSE, KIDCAFE, and KIDS-ACT. Post the printouts on the wall, publish it in daily newspapers, or make it available for all participating children in other ways. Use the information in geography, environmental studies, history, etc. Try to get a group of students to take care of the KIDCAFE work on your behalf, so that you can devote your time to the next steps. KIDCAFE is a wonderful "self-teaching mechanism". The kids will learn from the exchange of email without noticing it. Action 4: Let the kids use their own mailbox -------------------------------------------- This option is not available to all teachers. If it is, we recommend that you start with one mailbox only to get some experience. Subscribe this mailbox to KIDCAFE. If your school's name is "Arendal Skole", you may want to subscribe by sending the following commands _from this mailbox account_ to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU : sub kidcafe Students at Arendal Skole set kidcafe index Ask the students to print out the daily list of messages in KIDCAFE and post it on the wall. Let them administer this account. You may even allow some of them to use it from their homes during evenings. Teach them to use the /ship command (explained in the KIDLINK TIPS file, that we told you to retrieve above). Action 5: Adding more mailboxes for the kids -------------------------------------------- Some teachers take in all messages from KIDCAFE in full. If you want to do this, please *do not* use more than one mailbox for this. Occasional email network problems may otherwise create a substantial amount of work for the KIDLINK administrators. Either subscribe these mailboxes as given in Action 4 above, or use the following command lines: sub kidcafe Students at Arendal Skole II set kidcafe nomail The latter command makes sure that NO mail is sent to this mailbox from KIDCAFE, while at the same time enabling the kids to send mail to KIDCAFE from this mailbox. Note: When kids first start sending messages to KIDCAFE, they may get back a message saying that their message has been to the list editor for approval. This is our normal procedure. After several messages are sent, the list database will be updated so that messages go straight through to the list without being delayed. STEP 3: KIDFORUM ================ Subscribe to KIDFORUM to learn how this service works. New topics are being discussed in the KIDLEADR forum, and then announced through the KIDLINK announcement service. Participate with your class in topics that fits your curriculum. Subscribe to KIDFORUM by sending a message to the LISTSERV containing the following command: SUB KIDFORUM Your-first-name Your-last-name STEP 4: KIDPROJ =============== Subscribe to KIDPROJ to learn how this service works. It has been set up for curriculum exchange between schools. New projects are regularly being announ- ced here. Participate with your class in projects that fits your curriculum. Subscribe to KIDPROJ by sending a message to the LISTSERV containing the following command: SUB KIDPROJ Your-first-name Your-last-name STEP 5: JOIN OTHER SERVICES =========================== By now, you will probably have a feeling for what KIDS-94 is. Consider joining KIDLEADR and KIDPLAN. Subscribe by sending a message to the LISTSERV containing the following commands: SUB KIDPLAN Your-first-name Your-last-name SUB KIDLEADR Your-first-name Your-last-name In these forums you'll regularly get leads to other interesting offerings. KIDLINK welcomes all the help that we can get. Volunteers may signal their interest in assisting through these two lists, or by private email to the Project Director, Odd de Presno, at opresno@extern.uio.no . STEP 6: BROWSE KIDLINK'S FILE ARCHIVES ====================================== A considerable amount of information is available by e-mail from KIDLINK's various archives. Retrieving files from these archives are administered by the LISTSERV program. The most commonly used commands (which must always be sent to the LISTSERV) are: GET - to have a file sent to YOU by email INDEX - to get a list of files in an archive GIVE TO - to send a file to another person The most important archive is associated with the KIDLINK announcement service. For an overview of these files, use the GET command to retrieve the file KIDLINK MASTER. This is done, as explained above, by sending a message to the LISTSERV containing the following line in the TEXT: GET KIDLINK MASTER Here is a list of some other KIDS-94 archives: KIDART is the file archives of the KIDLINK Gallery of Computer Art. For more information about the Gallery and about how to use it, send an e-mail to either LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU containing the commands: GET KIDART ARTHELP GET KIDART ARTCAT KIDBIN contains binary KIDLINK files in their true binary format. These files are *only* avaible by FTP transfer. Among the files available is the KIDSHOW "electronic book about KIDLINK". If you want to check up on the early history of KIDLINK, look into the KIDS-91 and KIDS-92 archives. To get a list of files in these two libraries, use the commands: INDEX KIDS-91 INDEX KIDS-92 MESSAGE LOG FILES ----------------- All messages from all discussion groups are stored in publicly accessible archives on the North Dakota State University computer system. No specific permission is necessary to use them for research or publicity purposes. We expect those who use the archives to give credit to the source and to use them only in ways which respect the integrity of the kids and adults involved in the KIDLINK projects. THE CELEBRATION --------------- Each year in May , at the conclusion of our projects, we invite "our" kids to "chat" with each other in a global electronic dialog. Information about our next Celebration Event will be announced through the KIDLINK service. THE KIDLINK SOCIETY ------------------- KIDLINK is operated by a non-profit organization called the KIDLINK Society. The full text of the Articles of Association is stored in the file KIDLINK AOFA . To retrieve this file, send a message to LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU . In the TEXT of the message write GET KIDLINK AOFA We quote from the Articles of Association: Membership in the KIDLINK Society is open to any person or organization wishing to support the purpose and goals of the KIDLINK Society. There are three types of membership: (1) individual membership, (2) organizational membership, and (3) youth membership. ... By the end of KIDS-94, there will be a common election among all members. The KIDLINK Board is to consists of one representative from each of the following six world areas: (1) Europe, (2) Africa, (3) Asia, (4) Pacific, (5) North America, and (6) Central and South America, plus the Project Director. We currently only have dues established for individual members. The Society has the folloing two types of individual membership: Ordinary member: US$ 25,- Sponsoring member: US$ 100,- Payment of dues may be done using VISA, EuroCard/Mastercard, and American Express, as well as by bank transfer. ** IMPORTANT NOTE: You do *not* need to be a member to participate in KIDLINK. All our activities have been free and will continue to be free!!! The membership application form is in the file KIDLINK DUES . Add the command GET KIDLINK DUES to the command above to get this form. ------------------------ NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS ------------------------ Our newsletters are always distributed through the KIDLINK announcement service. If you subscribe to this service, you do not need to do anything to get them. You can also get the newsletters from the KIDNEWS subscription service. Just send a message to the LISTSERV containing the following line: SUB KIDNEWS Your-first-name Your-last-name -------------------- FOR MORE INFORMATION -------------------- about KIDS-94/KIDLINK or if you want to help out or participate, write to KIDLINK at kidlink-info@VM1.NODAK.EDU or Odd de Presno opresno@extern.uio.no Mail: KIDLINK, 4815 Saltrod, Norway Phone: +47 370 31204 Fax: +47 370 27111 or one of our support people in your country. To get a list of local support people, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU containing the command: GET KIDLINK CONTACTS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Appendix 1: List of alternative e-mail addresses for sending the kids's responses to the RESPONSE discussion list. Internet/ARPA/EAN, etc.: RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU BITNET/EARN/CEARN, etc.: RESPONSE@NDSUVM1 UUCP/EUnet: VM1.NODAK.EDU!response JANET: response%VM1.NODAK.EDU@eanrelay.ac.uk CompuServe: >INTERNET:response@VM1.NODAK.EDU MCI Mail: At TO, type RESPONSE and the word EMS in parantheses. At EMS: type INTERNET. At MBX, write: RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU AppleLink: RESPONSE@VM1.NODAK.EDU@INTERNET# SprintMail: ("RFC-822": , SITE:INTERNET) FidoNet: Send to user UUCP at 1:105/42. The first line of text in the body of the message would be To: response@VM1.NODAK.EDU The next line should be blank. AT&T Mail: internet!ndsuvm1.bitnet!response X.400: (C:US,A:Telemail,P:Internet,"RFC-822":) If this fails ------------- If you have access to one of the addresses above but fail to send to RESPONSE (say you get an error message claiming illegal host name or something), try send a request for help to the following addresses: kidlink-info@VM1.NODAK.EDU If you are not connected to any of these networks ------------------------------------------------- Not connected to any inter- Upload the file to the following Bulletin national email network: Board in Norway c/o Sysop. 8 bits, N parity. Phone: +47 370 31378. 300-9600 bps (CCITT) If your network has a link to DASnet, send to [DEZNDP]opresno (DASnet can send email to ABA/net, BIX, CIGnet, Connect, Dialcom, EasyLink, Envoy 100, GeoNet, INET, MacNET, MercanMail, Telecommunications Ltd, NewsNet, NWI, OnTyme, PINET, The Portal System, Glasnet, PsychNet, and many others.) Rev.060193op ----------------------------------- 9. The file KIDLINK CONTACTS tells you, who is the KIDLINK support person of your local area. ( 28434 ) 93-06-14 01:22 LISTSERV @VM1.NoDak.EDU Modtager: Claus Berg Emne: File: ``KIDLINK CONTACTS'' -------------------- FOR MORE INFORMATION -------------------- about KIDS-93/KIDLINK or if you want to help out or participate, contact Odd de Presno opresno@extern.uio.no Mail: KIDLINK, 4815 Saltrod, Norway Phone: +47 370 31204 Fax: +47 370 27111 or one of the following: Argentina --------- Cristina Chiocci E-mail: english@coltar.edu.ar (or:) atina!coltar!english@UUNET.UU.NET Tarbut School, Rosales 3019, (1636) Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina Fax: 54 1 790-0423, Phone: 54 1 799-8602, Home number:54 1 799-4201 Australia --------- Delwynne Peterson E-mail: Delwynnex@brt.deakin.edu.au Avila College, Melbourne. Bolivia ------- Jaime Vasquez de la Barra, Supervisor de Proyecto AULA VIVA, Instituto Internacional de Integracion del Convenio Andres Bello, Casilla 2860, La Paz - Bolivia. E-mail: jvasquez@unbol.bo Prone: 358619 (or: jvasquez@unbol.apc.org) Brazil ------ Fredric M. Litto E-mail: FRMLITTO@BRUSPVM.bitnet Laboratorio de Tecnologia da Comunicacao, Escola de Comunicacoes e Artes, Universidade de Sao Paulo, 05508 Sao Paulo, SP - Brasil. Phone: +55-11-815-3083 (voice and fax) Canada ------ Jonn Ord: E-mail: jonno@scilink.org SciLINK, 339 Wellesley Street, East, Toronto, M4X 1H2 Ontario Phone: 416-922-7001 Chile ----- Nicolas Luco & Alexis Jeldrez Email: xxi@uchcecvm.BITNET NLUCO@UCHCECVM.BITNET Siglo XXI - El Mercurio, Av. Santa Maria 5542 - Vitacura - Chile P.O. Box - 13-D, Santiago, Chile Phone: (562) 2287777 Fax: (562) 2289042 China ----- Feng Guangbin E-mail: (not made public at this time) China National Institute for Educational Research, 100088 Beijing, China Costa Rica ---------- Vigny Alvarado Castillo, E-mail: VALVARAD@UCRVM2.BITNET Universidad Estatal a Distancia, San Jose, Costa Rica. TEL :(506)532121, FAX :(506)534990 Czechoslovakia -------------- Dr. Milan Jira E-mail: Bitnet - ULIMJ@CSEARN Internet - ulimj@earn.cvut.cs 3rd Medical Faculty, Charles University, Srobarova 48, 100 42 Praha 10 Phone: +42-2-716-2457 Fax: +42-2-741075 Denmark ------- Claus Berg E-mail: Claus_Berg@skole-kom.uni-c.dk Vaerebrovej 52,7.1, DK-2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark Phone: (+45) 44 98 14 28 Estonia ------- Anne Villems Email: anne@ebc.tartu.ew.su Computer Science Deptartment, Tartu University, Tartu, Estonia Finland ------- Heikki Korpinen Email: hkorpine@vipunen.hut.fi Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo Phone: 358-9-4514007 Germany ------- Wolfgang Reinfeldt E-mail: reinfel@caeci.ol.ni.schule.de Caecilienschule (Gymn.), Haarenufer 11, 2900 Oldenburg, phone: +441-45595 Guatemala --------- Luis R. Furlan E-mail: furlan@uvg.gt huracan!uvg!furlan@uunet.UU.NET Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Apartado Postal # 82, Guatemala, Guatemala 01901 Phone: (502) 269-0791 Fax: (502) 238-0212 Honduras -------- Sam Liberto E-mail: sbs@igc.apc.org Santa Barbara Bilingual School, c/o AMPAC Apartado Postal 342, San Pedro Sula Phone: (504) 57-99-77 Fax: (504) 57 99 81. Iceland ------- Lara Stefansdottir E-mail: lara@ismennt.is Islenska menntanetid KHI v/Stakkahlid 105 Reykjavik Iceland Phone - Voice: + 1-683230 Ireland ------- Conor Mac Hale E-mail: Internet: 75900491@DCU.ie FrEdMail: DUBLIN!CMCHALE Colaiste Eoin, Booterstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Telephone (voice) +353-1-2834016 (work) / +353-1-2884250 (home) Italy ----- Nanni Mauro E-mail: NANNI@astbo1.bo.cnr.it C.N.R. Istituto di Radioastronomia V. Irnerio 46, Bologna Phone: Italy + 051 287832 Japan ----- Nobuo Hasumi BITNET: hasumi%aegis.or.jp@jpnkyoto Internet: hasumi%aegis.or.jp%jpnkyoto@VM1.NODAK.EDU Asahi-cyo Elementary School, 2-29-1,Asahi-cyo, Nerima,Tokyo Japan 179 Phone: +81-3-3939-0362 Fax : +81-482-55-9275 New Zealand ----------- Richard Naylor E-mail: rich@TOSH.WCC.GOVT.NZ Wellington City Council, Wellington. (Ph.: +64 4 801-3300) P O Box 2199 (Fax: +64 4 801-3020) Wellington , NZ Norway ------ Knut Braatane: E-mail: Kbraatane@bbb.no Skovv. 49, 0258 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 2 92 77 35 or +47 2 44 52 86(Priv.) Peru ---- Oscar Becerra T. E-mail: BR1BEO@PERVM1.VNET.IBM.COM P.O. BOX 151 Lima, Peru Tel (51-14) 355500 (office) or (51-14) 492759 (home) Russia ------ Mike Gorlovoy. E-mail: gorlovoy%M9.IHEP.SU@fuug.fi 142284 Moskowskaya Str. 14-34. Protvino. Moscow region. USSR. Nicholay Lastovka E-mail: phil@child.msk.su Moscow Children Computer Club, Rozhdestvenskiy bldv, 21, korp.2 Moscow, 103045, Russia Phone: +7 (095) 928 36-88 Sergei Makogonov E-mail: 1421@as.khabarovsk.su Computer Centre, Far Eastern Division of Russian Academy of Sciences Kim Yo Chen street 65, Khabarovsk, 680063, Russia Phone: +7 (421-0) 33-37-43 Saudi Arabia ------------ Dr. Tahir Husain E-mail: RSID13H%SAUPM00.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU Mailing address: KFUPM BOX 446, DHAHRAN-31261, Saudi Arabia Tel. 9663-860-5202(Residence) 9663-860-3227(Office) South Africa ------------ Mike Wright E-mail: swrim@sirius.ru.ac.za St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa Telephone: 27214 (work)/25785 (home). Fax : 311806 Sweden ------ Kent R. Nilsson E-mail: KenNi@ILU.LiU.SE Gransbov. 46, S-590 60 Ljungsbro, Sweden Telephone: + 46 13 62001 Thailand -------- Dr. Yunyong Teng-amnuay E-mail: fyta@chulkn.chula.ac.th Centers of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Phyathai Rd., Bangkok 10330, Thailand. Voice: (662) 218 2925 Fax: (662) 215 3617 United Kingdom -------------- Mike Burleigh E-mail: Internet: y0micbur@xon.co.uk Dialcom: 10001:CLK003 JANet: UBJVM6Q@CCS.BBK.AC.UK UUCP: UUNET!XON!T1MICBUR APC/GreenNet: mikeb@gn.apc.org Oldfield House School, Oldfield Road, Hampton, Middlesex TW12 2HP, U.K. Phone: +44 81-979-5102 Fax: +44 81 783 0207 U.S.A ----- Nancy Stefanik E-mail: stefanik@tmn.UUCP 27 Lawton Road, Canton, CT 06019 USA. Phone: 203-693-4293 Dan Wheeler: E-mail: dan.wheeler@uc.edu or wheeler@ucbeh.bitnet College of Education, University of Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0002 Phone: 513-556-3607 or 513-861-3941 Harold Miller: E-mail: cnet2sh@uhccvx.uhcc.hawaii.edu Seabury Hall HS, 480 Olinda Road, Makawao, HI 96768 Phone: 808-572-7235 Michael Strait E-mail: mstrait@linknet.com Annenberg/PCB Project, 901 E St. NW, Washington D.C. 20004-2006 Phone: 202-879-9649 NOTE ---- "The people on this list have agreed to respond to inquiries about KIDS-93 and KIDLINK from teachers, students, the press, and others in their region. They are committed to pursue new opportunities for involving more kids from his/her area. They are, as members of the KIDLINK planning team, well informed about the project." Rev.011393op ----------------------------------- Additional information: The printed issue of newsletter was illustrated with a couple of graphics and computerdrawings retrieved from the KIDLINK: KIDART Gallery of Computer Art as UUE'ncoded files. These were the files used: KIDART MSK04 Art by Michel Sidorov, Moscow, Russia KIDART CDK02 Midsummer in Denmark by Ida Berg Meyer, Denmark KIDART WNZ01 Art by Jeremy Naylor, Wellington, New Zealand KIDART KBK01 "Melancholy & sorrow" by Sergei V. Makogonov's daughter Ann. KIDART ART020 The End of the Evil Power (Minas-Tirith) by Kirill Lygovsky, Protvino, Russia KIDART ART014 My native land (Protva River) by Kirill Lygovsky (age 11) Protvino, Russia KIDART ART010 Christmas card from Ida Berg Meyer in Denmark KIDART ART023 8 Globe by Sean Keithly, Des Moines, Washington USA I also used the KIDLINK Logo drawn by Anne-Tove Vestfossen, Norway and the WORLD92-map showing sites by 1992, May 03 - we need an update! KIDART is the file archives of the KIDLINK Gallery of Computer Art. For more information about the Gallery and about how to use it, send an e-mail to either LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET or LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU containing the commands: GET KIDART ARTHELP GET KIDART ARTCAT This special issue of the "Danish" KIDLINK Newsletter was edited and printed in June 1993, during the European Communities Conference in Snekkersten, Denmark.. Parts of the Newsletter are files from the KIDLINK archieves. It is OK to copy the Newsletter. Please spread it ;-) The aim of the conference was to set focus on Databases and Telecommunications in Education. Please don't hesitate to ask, if you need additional information, DEMO-disk's, etc. Claus Berg, teacher, KIDLINK-coordinator Internet: Claus_Berg@skole-kom.uni-c.dk Adr.:Vaerebrovej 52,7.1, DK2880 Bagsvaerd, Denmark Telephone (and fax; but please phone me first!): (+45) 44 98 14 31 (070793 cb) ************************************* E-mail: Claus_Berg@skole-kom.uni-c.dk *************************************