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Ages 5-17 The SANTA LETTERS (c) 2009
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HILITES ListMaster
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Oct 19, 2009 08:52 PDT
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Dear Dennis Cowick: This project announcement was posted to the hilites
projects mailing list at
http://lists.topica.com/lists/gsn-hilites-list/read.
**** REVISED PROJECT POSTING ****
BASIC PROJECT INFORMATION
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PROJECT TITLE:
-- The SANTA LETTERS (c) 2009
PROJECT BEGIN and END DATES:
-- 11/06/09 to 12/18/09
NUMBER OF CLASSROOMS:
-- No Limit
AGE RANGE:
-- 5 to 17 years
TARGET AUDIENCE:
-- Anyone
PROJECT SUMMARY:
-- This letter exchange, which pairs classes of elementary students
with Jr/Sr High students, is GSN's oldest (1985) telecomputing
project... and one of its most successful.
Best of all, it is simple while giving your students a highly
satisfying, authentic experience with letter writing (and reading!).
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PROJECT DETAILS
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PROJECT LEVEL:
-- Basic Project
CURRICULUM AREAS:
-- Language; Technology; Community Interest; English as Foreign
Language
TECHNOLOGIES USED:
-- Email, List server; Text: stories, essays, letters
COLLABORATION STYLES:
-- Intercultural Exchange; Global Classroom; Impersonation
FULL PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
-- Project Name: The SANTA LETTERS (c) 2009 <br>
By Dennis Cowick, Global SchoolNet Foundation <br>
A favorite annual GSN project since 1985.
Students in grades K-1 or 2 write letters to "Santa."
Students in grades 7-12 reply as "Santa."
When you register to participate, we match you up with another class
with whom you exchange letters... one primary class (ages 5-8 years),
one older class (ages 12-17).
We also provide you with abundant lesson ideas and tips to help your
students have a successful... and very authentic... letter writing
experience.
OBJECTIVES:
-- Purpose: Improve writing skills in primary and upper grade
students, and produce many student-authored papers for reading.
ACADEMICALLY:
This project strengthens students' writing.
Primary students want their letter to Santa to be "just right", and
secondary students feel such a high degree of responsibility to the task
that they also want their work to be their best. Students gladly write,
edit, revise and perfect their letters.
They even get quite a bit of practice reading, because they want to read
each others' letters and compare the contents.
SOCIALLY:
One of the most noteworthy results of this project is the cooperative
mode that the students seem automatically to slide into so effortlessly.
They want to help each other, to compare what they have written with
what others in the class have done. The desire to cooperate is obvious,
natural and strong.
PROJECT URL:
-- http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/project/santa
PROJECT SPONSOR:
-- Global SchoolNet Foundation
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PROJECT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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REGISTRATION DATES:
-- 10/10/09 to 11/10/09
REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
-- Register on the Web at
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/project/santa/
PROJECT EMAIL ADDRESS:
-- mailto:santa-@gsn.org
PROJECT REGISTRATION URL:
-- http://www.globalschoolnet.org/gsh/project/santa
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PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT POSTED BY:
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-- Dennis Cowick mailto:dcow-@sandi.net (School Technology
Coordinator)
-- San Diego City Schools
-- San Diego, California, United States
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