In October, the students introduced themselves and answered the 4 questions. They wrote the texts first then typed and sent them to the mailing list KIDWAI. By then, they have started to see the presentations of the other kids!

• In the lab, with the small group, we read some, and we printed all messages. We sent some presentations home with those students (more than half) who had an internet connection to reply.
• I read the messages to the whole class and give each message to the student who wished to reply. The student have to stick it on his exercise book and then write below his/her reply to have it ready to type in the lab. Many students typed the messages at home, saved them in a floppy disk and took it to school to send it to the list. So a communication cycle had been built; students liked this a lot and the only problem was time, always too short, never enough.
• The kids always appreciated the many and varied activities contained in the lessons of the modules.
• I limited myself to read aloud from time to time the several questions proposed in the lessons of the modules, discussing them in class and asking the students to reformulate the same questions in a simple way, meant to be easier to understand.
• the reformulated questions therefore came written on the exercise book and the students were asked to answer them as soon as possible in order to send them to the KIDWAI list (some of the students arrived the day after, ready with the floppy disk containing the text to send).

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