In our last issue, Heba Ramzy
was announced as manager of our new Arabic language area. Already, Arabic
is available from
Kidlink's
home page. Click at the
 icon on that page
to enjoy.
If viewing the Arabic characters on your computer is a challenge,
try the following hints:
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Internet Explorer 4.0 and higher
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Try set encoding to "Arabic Windows" (Click View | Encoding | Arabic
(Windows)). If this doesn't work, try click on the first link, bring up the
page, and then hit the ArrowLeft button. This works for me. Don't ask me
why.
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set encoding option to User defined (Click View | Encoding | User
defined)
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Bitstream
Cyberbit might have an option.
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Netscape Communicator: From Egypt, we're told that version 4.x on
Windows (95,98,NT 4.0) Arabic, or pure Latin versions work fine.
Odd: - What's your future plans, Heba?
 Heba: - We hope
that by mid this year we will have the Arabic language mailing lists up and
running list as well as Arabic messages... but as we stand now, we will use
English for communication of messages, but not for the content..
By the way, Heba is
project manager of a Egyptian National Plan for establishing 120 Computer
clubs throughout the country during the coming six months. She also works
as a consultant to the Ministry of Information and Communication...
What about getting
Kidlink in your
language? Web pages, a Kidleader and a Kidcafe mailing list.
Click here for information about
what it takes. |
10 years in May!
Yes, indeed!
Kidlink's birthday
is in May this year. It all started on May 25, 1990 using services on the
SciNet conferencing system in Toronto, Canada
 . In October,
we moved over to the Internet.
How long time is 10
years? Well, compare these two photos..
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Odd de Presno in
May 1990 |
Nine years later... |
Be sure to start your preparations, and
click here if you want to look
more into
what Kidlink has done
over the years.
Some new participants
Reunion, a French colony. Do you know where this is? It is a small island
in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. Here lives
Jessica West (11),
in a place called Wollongong. These are her answers
to
Kidlink's four questions:
Who am I ?
Hi iam 11 i love horse,rading and playing sport.
What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
i want famouse triathelete or a singer
How Do I Want The World To Be Better When I Grow
Up?
no wars and all the countries to be as lucky a australia
What Can I Do Now To Make This Happen?
i dont know yet but im workink on a solution
 And, what
about the Cook Islands? Familiar? Well, it is somewhere between New Zealand
and Tahiti (closer to the latter). This is where Jessica
Blevins (11) lives. She attends to the Cook Elementary, and lives
in a place called Lubbock. She says: "I have red-brown hair. Blue eyes.
I like to cook. I like to read. I like horses. I make straight A's,"
and wants to be a "pediatrician" when she grows up.
How Do I Want The World To Be Better When I Grow
Up?
people need to be nice
What Can I Do Now To Make This Happen?
i dont know
Dear Jessica! When our "I
have
a
dream"
program is completed, we invite you to team up with friends around
Kidlink to find
ways of making people nicer.
By January
24, we had received responses to these four questions 134 countries around
the world. Big and small. Small is also the Virgin Islands (US) in the Caribbean
Sea. In St.Croix lives Angel Thomas (11),
and she goes to the Alexander Henderson School.
Who am I ?
I like to swim, run, read, surf the net, and more! I am most concerned
about violence and abuse, pollution, and mistreated animals.
What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
When I grow up I will like to be pediatrician(doctor).
How Do I Want The World To Be Better When I Grow
Up?
When I grow up I would like the ozone layer build up again. I would like
it if people could try their best not to liter and recycle more. People could
start thinking on how other people feel. And how they would feel if they
were in the other person's shoes. When I grow up I wish the rate in violence
would go down. I wish people would not get abused and evertbody would get
treated equally.
What Can I Do Now To Make This Happen?
I will be a nice person and encourage other people to be good people too!
I will continue to do well in school. Later years in my life I will stand
up for what I know is best.
Further to
the south in the Caribbean Sea, St.Vincent & Grenadine. In Ribishi lives
Jodi Richelle Dougan (11), a student at Windsor
Primary:
Who am I ?
I love to read and write. I like to surf the net. Violence is one of my
biggest concerns.
What Do I Want To Be When I Grow Up?
I either want to be a marine biologist,a geologist, or a fashion
designer.
How Do I Want The World To Be Better When I Grow
Up?
I don't want any pollution.
What Can I Do Now To Make This Happen?
I can teach my friends to recylce.
New developments
The Norwegian Ministry of Education is funding development of the first three
modules of a new
Kidlink educational
program called "I
have
a
dream."
In their approval letter, the Ministry writes:
"The project is very interesting, and might support many of the objectives
that the Ministry has for developing quality of work in our schools, like
objectives related to a desire of students in active work, more varied work
forms, project work, cross-curriculum cooperation, gründer activities
("entrepreneurship")."
The "I
have
a
dream"
program will be designed to help youth realize their dreams. Thus, it will
be a natural step two for students who have participated in the
"Who-Am-I?" program. Also, by integrating the work
with an award program, we hope to introduce an important element of realism.
It will help bring interesting dreams up from the discussion level and over
in practical actions with a potential lasting value for many.
For information, take
a look at
http://www.kidlink.org/kie/dream/index.html.
These pages also contain notes and guidelines for the ongoing development
work. If you have suggestions, be sure to send them to the developers. Any
suggestions are welcome!
Programs
The southern hemisphere cycle of the
Who-Am-I? program has
a revised time schedule. In 2000, the program will run as follows:
The
Who-Am-I? program contains exciting
classroom opportunities. The links above will lead you directly to its contents.
You can also "listen in" on the
mailing lists for teachers.
Here are some links
to wet your appetite:
By the way, listen to Rubem Paulo, teacher at the Patronato Santo Antonio
school, Cuiabá - Mato Grosso, Brazil. His school has decided to base
their 8th grade curriculum on the
Who-Am-I? program.
Click here for more (and a nice photo
:-).
Oh, many schools
on the southern hemisphere are on vacation now. Teachers and students are
no doubt swimming in the seas, while those the northern hemisphere may be
shivering by their fire place. Still, check the Spanish language area's ongoing
El Proyecto Ronda
de Niños, designed for
Kidlink's youngest
participants. These are two of the program's projects:
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El
proyecto Lazos de Amistad is for 1st graders. The idea is to let
the students do the first module of the
Who-Am-I? program (about
the four questions) in graphical form using MicroMundos software.
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El Proyecto Lima
Bariloche is for 2nd to 4th grade students from Puerto Moreno in
Bariloche (Argentina), and el Colegio Gertrude Hanks in Lima, Perú.
Work results include manuscripts, photos of the kids, drawings, cards, and
more. In its third year.
For more information, join
Kidleader-Spanish,
or write to Samuel Escobar
in Perú.
Around
Kidlink
Our
web site was picked as a featured link on
The Copernicus Online Community. "Of
the innumerable sites on the Web, yours has been selected because of its
exceptional quality, content, and design."
"Copernicus Interactive is dedicated to providing K-12 educators, students,
and parents with the best educational resources on the Web in a friendly,
time-efficient manner. It is our pleasure to present you with the Dr. Copernicus
award in the spirit of partnership in education. We thank you for contributing
your superior product to the growing wealth of resources that make the Web
a great place to learn."
Ah! The Stockholm Challenge Award is
using
Kidlink to promote their competition. As you might know, the King of
Sweden handed
Kidlink
the Bangemann Challenge Award
from in June last year...
Brendan Desilets of
Kidlink's
multilingual Kidforum
submits:
In Jostein Gaarder's short story, "Gaia," the spirit of the earth appears
to a boy named Anders. "Now I could see the girl. She stood in front of
a large piles of garbage. She had to be poor, because her clothes were ragged.
I could see that she had tears in her eyes. Nevertheless she smiled in a
special way. Tears and a smile. I was like rain and sunshine at the same
time."
Gaardner's powerful
story serves as inspiration for students and teachers who join in the current
Kidforum topic, "Blue Print Earth 2000," moderated by two of
Kidlink's outstanding
adult leaders, Tor Arne Richvoldsen and Indu Varma, who tell us that the
topic, which explores environmental issues, "will start close to home
and then move through our home town, through our state/country, and out into
our global community."
Last year, Kidforum
participants explored the "Faces of Friendship" and then discussed a wide
variety of scientific issues in a topic called "UNDER the Earth, and UP to
the Air." When "Blue Print Earth 2000" ends on March 31, a new topic called
"Communication: Past, Present, and Future" will begin.
Kidlink's 2000 New Year's Celebration? Indeed!
Click on the photo above to see a screenshot from
the Kidlink c2d -
Kidlink's Multi
User Virtual Space. The celebration started very early, actually the day
before, when Tsutomu from Japan came online. Then various greeters from various
places of the world dropped in all day. Finally, at 23.00 CST (0500 GMT),
several people joined for a "party" wishing us all Happy Y2K!
The multi user virtual
space, C2d™, is a protected, interactive, online environment designed
for global dialog and the development of interactive collaborative projects.
It is set up for
Kidlink
participants from around the world to explore, learn in, and Enjoy!
The Kidlink's IRC area is currently
being upgraded to make the chat service easier to use. Since the majority
of our users are students of young age, we need to be more web-based to avoid
the technical difficulties that come with connecting to a secure system.
The team plans to have their new webpages ready by February 2000. These pages
will make it easier access the service.
Yolande Spiteri (11/12),
enthusiastic IRC user from Malta, has taken the initiative to create 'her
own' newsletter. She is using
the KIDIRC-coord
list to get other kids to send her articles, and they're really doing
a great job!
The
Kidlink
Society 2000
The Kidlink
Society is
Kidlink's owner.
All interested persons can become a member of this society, regardless of
age. However, please note that being a member is not required to enjoy
Kidlink's
free services!
Becoming a member means
supporting the continuity of
Kidlink through
your membership dues (around $25 per year for individual membership). Also,
it means participating in important decisions regarding the organization's
future, including the election of members to
the
Board.
You may find it intriguing
to be part of such an all-electronic event as is the Annual Meeting of the
KidlinkSociety.
Discussions and votes take place on a private mailing list for members only.
Documents are distributed through a private area on
Kidlink's web.
The meeting involves people living geographically very far apart, and will
typically take months to complete. For example, the 1999 meeting took some
three months to complete.
Click here, if you want to sign
up.
Volunteers wanted
We are always short of hands! See the
"Do you want to support us?"
page for information. You can also write directly to
the coordinator for your language
area.
While unable to offer money, we offer
recognition, opportunities to
learn, good friends around the world, and the satisfaction of doing something
that matters to our future generations. Also, many of our volunteers
have used their involvement with
Kidlink to support applications for new jobs. Besides,
it is fun to help kids!
If
you just want to help produce this "newsletter," drop
Odd de Presno a line.
About "A
Kidlink Diary"
A
Kidlink
Diary is published four or more times a year
presenting short news from the global
Kidlink community: people, programs, services,
and student results across language areas.
Issues are posted
as web pages on
Kidlink's server.
This issue is posted at
http://www.kidlink.org/history/2000/diary.html.
New issues are announced through our
announcement lists, and the
KIDNEWS
mailing list. (Las traducciones de los diarios anteriores estan en:
http://www.kidlink.org/spanish/kidnoticia/news.html)
We welcome reports
and commentaries from users of
Kidlink's
services for possible inclusion.
These may be edited for clarity or space. Send contributions to
Odd de Presno.
A
Kidlink
Diary is compiled and edited by Odd de Presno
with additional assistance of
Kidlink's international
team of coordinators.
Kidlink
sm is a non-profit grassroots organization working
to help children through the secondary school level be involved in a global
dialog. It is owned by a non-profit organization named the
Kidlink
Society with registration number 976 536
258 in the Norwegian
"Enhetsregisteret."
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March 28, 2000
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