My Future Job / Making Our World Better Workshop "I would like to study science, and become a biologist." Luca from Italy , 2002.

Audience: Teachers, teacher trainers, and technology facilitators.

Audience size: Optimally, limited to one teacher per Internet workstation in a computer lab, with teacher trainers and technology facilitators assisting as needed.

Duration: 2 days

• Consider starting the workshop after lunch the first day. This will allow participants to research on their own after the first session, and get more out of the second day.

• If some participants do not have email accounts, and experiences vary widely, consider inviting those with no email accounts and little experience some hours before the others to get them up to speed. Give them e-mail accounts, help them get started. Invite them to stay over after the workshop for a little time to practice some more.

• Contents and length will also depend on the fluency the audience have on Kidlink's basics.

Contents:

My Future Job - Guidelines for teachers. Includes: How to work with Kidlink's public and private database to search for friends with the same interests and find their emails, invite them to join them, to collaborate or chat. Privacy concerns. Using GMT (UTC). How kids can make their own pages on their own private space in KidSpace, and teachers can ask for a space in Kidspace like they do with any other Kidlink project. Being a chat channel host.
Making Our World Better - Guidelines for teachers

Preparation reading: Participants should study the contents of the registration workshop before the face-to-face workshop begins. Doing so is particularly important for participants with less experience in the use of Internet in their teachings. Review lessons 2,3,4 of the first module of the Who Am I Program.

Methodology: Participants will get hands on experience, going through the steps, learning by doing - the same way their students will work after them. They will discover lesson plan contents appropriate for their curriculum, students' works and supplementary resources that support teaching (includes infrastructure offerings, like the KidSpace simplified publishing platform).

A qualified moderator will help participants understand what is important, and provide experienced answers. There will always be many questions in a workshop with so little speaking, and so much action.

Benefits to attendees: As a result of the workshop, participants will get a first hand knowledge of Kidlink's practices. They will understand the My Future Job and Making Our World Better educational programs; see connections between their required curriculum and the programs, acquire new strategies for implementing them in their classrooms; build a network of support people and resources for use with the programs.

Handouts: One page with links to relevant Kidlink resources.