Editorial

I know of no person capable of following everything going on within the Kidlink community. After all, there are now some 75 public mailing lists in 15 language areas in addition to the things going on in our real-time interactions network. There's simply too much going on.
This diary does not pretend to cover it all. It very quickly list some of what goes on within Kidlink, and occasionally provide links and pointers for more information. Enjoy!

Odd de Presno

Kidlink's birthday party is THIS WEEK

The dates of the Annual Celebration are  May 6 through 8 this year. See http://www.kidlink.org/Annual/index.html

Participants

Nice people from strange places join us. Strange, at least for those of us living far away. Among our new youth participants, we send special greetings to Langzi Chiu in Niue, and to Charlotte Joan Prince in Two Boats Village, Ascension Island.

Do you know where these two countries are?

Programs

The first round of the "Who am I?" program, focusing on European teachers, ended in April. A Latin American cycle starts now (in May), and a new northern hemisphere cycle will start in September this year. Main languages in the Latin American program are Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Information about Kidlink's IRC is now available in Italian: http://www.kidlink.org/IRC/italiano/. For updated Portuguese language information, see http://www.kidlink.org/portuguese/irc/. The Kidlink c2d Newsletter - Vol 01 Issue 01 - is at http://www.tech-continuum.com/c2d/kidlink/.
Kidlink's Danish language activities comprise a large number of projects attracting many school classes and a full local mirror of Kidlink's over 100,000 pages web site. Their greatest successes until now have been "Eventyrstafetten" (The Fairy Tales Relay) and "Julehistorier" (Christmas Stories). Right now, the Danish team run a "Middelalder" (Medieval Times) project, with 700 registered kids from 36 classes. The ongoing process of all projects is displayed on the web, including submitted pictures and drawings. Their plans for August through December 1999 is outlined at http://www.kidlink.org/dansk/efteraar99.html.

Volunteers

If you want to help produce this "newsletter," please drop Odd de Presno a line (opresno@kidlink.org).
Our language translation team is always short of helpers. If interested, visit http://www.kidlink.org/multi/tranteam/. Epi Sepulveda (at EpiSepulveda@compuserve.com) needs volunteers to help her approve responses to Kidlink's four questions.

Applause, please!

Patti Weeg of Kidproj fame, and her Delmar Students, were chosen as April's "Amazing Kids! of the Month" by http://www.amazing-kids.org/. The award article highlighted Kidlink projects and teachers like Isamu Shimizaki, Dennis Buccola, Francois Pignot, and Carla Hurchalla,  as well as the "Who am I?" program.

More recognition

Kidlink was recently recognized in a French language list named "Recherche documentaire et liens pour la classe - espace enfants" ( http://cartables.net/enfants/index.php3 ).
The Schrockguide Award (http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/content.html) recently selected Kidlink's KIDPROJ Multi-Cultural Calendar web (/KIDPROJ/MCC/).
Kidlink was chosen as one of 17 finalists in the IT in Education category of the Bangemann Challenge. Odd de Presno (Norway), Marisa Lucena  and Clarisse Olivieri de Lima (Brazil) plan to be present at the award ceremony in Stockholm, June 9. See http://www.challenge.stockholm.se/.
At IBest 98/99, Kidlink's Brazil pages were classified among the 10 best Brazilian sites in the "Infantil" (youth) category for 1998. A total of 7,000 sites in all categories participated. A team of Kidlinkers headed by Marisa joined the awards ceremony. See their photos at http://www.kidlink.org/portuguese/brasil/f-ibest.html.
For more on awards, visit http://www.kidlink.org/www/awards/index.html.

The Kidlink Community

Clarisse Olivieri de Lima (Brazil) has been promoted to the position as Assistant KidlinkWebmaster.

Several Kidlinkers will make presentations at SBC/WIE'99 in Rio de Janeiro this July. The list includes Odd de Presno (Norway), Bonnie Thurber (USA), and Oscar Becerra (Peru). See http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~sbc99/programa/wie.html. Odd de Presno will present the Who-Am-I? program at NKUL in Trondheim, Norway, this week (http://www.ntnu.no/nkul/).

Have you heard about KidFamilia, the place for grandmothers and grandfathers in Kidlink? It happens in Brazil, of course. For their pictures and "vitae" visit http://www.kidlink.org/portuguese/brasil/khouse/kfamilia/fichas.html.
The Kidcafe-Escola team recently published their Portuguese language KidNews newsletter at http://www.kidlink.org/portuguese/brasil/kidcafe-esc/capamentira.html