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Roops reports
from the India, February 2001 |
| Today,
Kidlink was
introduced to the children and I think they all liked the idea of `talking'
to the kids of the other countries and exchange. Well I am not an experienced
teacher, but whatever came to mind, I tried to apply.
This is how I began - I formed a circle of kids and asked how would one kid of the circle join hands with the opposite kid. And then how would all the kids join hands with all the other kids. I stood in the middle of circle, and told them to join hands with me, and thus forming a `link'. This is how I introduced Kidlink, - the link which will join hands with the kids of the rest of the countries. Most of them are/may not be aware of computer and Internet, so I had to explain them the `link' part and then moved on to `penfriendship' - the concept is known by almost everybody. I noticed one or two boys did know about `chatting' on the internet, so they grasped it well. For others I made it simpler, by explaining the telephone chatting and computer chatting. Suddenly I felt they were excited. `But how will we be able to chat from here' - I said, I'll be more or less like a postman to them! By the time little girls came to me, held my hands and I hugged them. Whew... :-) Then I asked them individually their names and they replied. At end, I told them `Hey, none of you asked why my name was!' ..To my surprise, all of them said `Roopal -it is on your volunteer badge!' Whoops...I guess we underestimate the kids sometime :-)
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