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- Objectives for Students
•To develop reading and writing skills
•To enjoy and develop an appreciation of poetry
•To celebrate student work by publishing it on the 'dear world' web
site
- •To develop technology skills and
understandings
- •To have students contribute to a
telecollaborative project
- •To participate as part of an online
community
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- Publishing of Class Work
- Classes registered with the 'dear world'
project will have one class poem on a chosen subject published on the project web
site. Classes are welcome to submit one illustration as a jpeg file
with their writing. Writing should be submitted as a Word document
or as text in an email.
Project Timeline
The 'dear world' project will run from December 2003 through to
May 2004.
Registration
Using email, please provide the following information to
memory9522@hotmail.com:
- •Your full name
•The e-mail address you wish to be contacted at
•Your school name and school URL
•School address, including city and province or state
- •Grade taught and number of students
•Please use dear world in the subject line of your email for
any correspondence
- •FOIPP
(Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection) procedures
required by your school or district must be followed in order to
post student work on the Internet.
- •Teachers
will receive a confirmation of registration if registration
was successfully sent.
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Teaching Suggestions
- •It is recommended that teachers share the
Dear World book with their students if participating in this
project.
- •Using the book as a model, have students
contribute ideas to a class letter or poem on a chosen topic.
- •Individually have students write a letter to
the chosen subject. Select a line from each letter to include in one
class letter.
