Messages received about the Fairland Elementary School Web site http://www.wam.umd.edu/~toh/Fairland.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've been able to show faculty real examples of what children are doing out there--beyond our local area. When they see what's possible, I think they realize how short we're falling from the Mark in preparing our teachers. Your students' work have contributed to an improved climate here... An Instructional Computing Consultant in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ As a graduate of the Montgomery County school system, I was pleasantly surprised to find the Fairland Elementary School Home Page. A Corporate Product Manager in Washington, DC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was also impressed with what your students are doing at a 5th grade level. Please let them know that somebody has looked at their efforts, and thinks they should be congratulated. A 5th grade teacher in Alaska ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your help with my book report on John F. Kennedy your iniformation was very helpful for me. A 6th grade student in Colorado. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations on your Web page, it is a fine educational resource. Wonderful tessellations project! An editor at an educational technology magazine ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have enjoyed my visit to your pages. If you don't mind, I would like to put a link to your tessellation page. A middle school teacher in Illinois ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enjoyed seeing your Tessellations project! A university in Washington State ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wow, we ... are really impressed with your classes reports. Did you scan these reports or what? How did you get the text to wrap around your drawings and pictures. We are in the process of developing our own home page, can you give us any hints on how you got started.... An Elementary School Principal ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was delighted to view your excellent work during a few extra minutes at lunch time. Wow! Have you ever given me some great ideas. Thank you very much. A 5th grade teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm writing to tell you how much I enjoyed reading Christine's book report on Pocahontas. I set out today to see if I could find any biographical information about the real Pocahontas. I used a World Wide Web search utility called "Web Crawler". What I have discovered is that although lots of people like to name things after Pocahontas, very few have written *about* this woman. At least not on the WWW! Christine's report was included in the list of the search results. I found it to be interesting and informative. It made me want to find out more about the real, historical Pocahontas, not just the character in old stories. I also liked her design for the stamp, too. Please thank her for me, and tell her to keep up the good work. (I hope you gave her a good grade) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just wanted you to know that I tried your tesselations project with my grade 6 class today. They came up with some interesting ideas. My kids really liked what your students had done. I brought in a coloured copies of Genevieve's, Alisha's, and Earl's pictures. Please tell them that their pictures were a big hit.... Thanks for sharing your ideas.... A 6 grade teacher in Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mary - you're definitely a "top drawer" new-wave educator.... Director of a computer science center ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would like to set up a K12 site at our daughter's elementary school... Wondering if you could talk with us about it, give us any suggestions on how to go about it, etc. I think yours is great. I was fascinated by the local history. The reports and pictures are great. I hope we'll be able to do something like this. A parent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ my name is Abby ... and I live in vermont. I really like Sarah's and Tanvi's tessellations. I am in second grade and I go to the Westminster West which is a 2 room schoolhouse. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our school will be working on its own page....Your Web pages will certainly be part of the inspiration. A Parent in Vermont ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am impressed with your pages and the extent of student use of the Fairland multimedia resources. A parent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Great famous American bios...complements to the authors...will go back to after sending this message. Enjoyed the sound bite in Rosa Parks by Rebecca...great touch! A teacher in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just a quick note to say that I surfed over to the Fairland ES home page and enjoyed it very much -- great job! Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've included a pointer to your Native American Culture site under "Personal Home Pages with a Native Focus." That's a bit of a bad name, but it seemed to be the most relevant place to put it. Congrats on the site. A history professor in Kansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (From a visitor to our classroom, written to his collegues back home) Last Monday (6/5) I had an opportunity to see some exciting stuff. There is an elementary school in Maryland that is using Internet in a very clever fashion. The operation works because there is a husband/wife team that bring remarkable skills to the task. She (Mary O'Haver) is a REALLY with-it teacher. She knows what makes good sense for students (5th graders) to learn. When you visit this page and roam around nearby, you'll see Mary's students AND sample their work. What you CAN'T see is the national (international) feedback that her students are getting about their work! He (Tom O'Haver) is an analytical chemist who serves more or less as the propellor-head for the project. Tom could be described as an electronic communications pragmatist. When you see their stuff, what you see is very real. No smoke and mirrors. No unfulfilled promises. Ideas for the future, yes, but what you see is both REAL and REAL TIME. No huge budgets. Just kids' work of high quality. An education professor in Nebraska. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I thought you and your students would like to know that I came across your wonderful stamps as part of a project I am doing with Native American young people that goes on at the Colorado School of Mines. We have Native Americans that come from all over the Country. Navajo from Arizon, Lakota from South Dakota, Ojibwa, Commanche and Apache. The students are k12 level. I hope they will enjoy your wonderful tribute to their culture as we explore the Internet. P.S. I was born and raised in Silver Spring, Md. and went to Blair H.S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wow, what an excellent home page! By grade 5'ers, fantastic! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm new at this Internet stuff, but I know quality use of technology when I see it. Your home page is fantastic! Could I ask you to send me any pertinent info regarding setting up your school's tech program and/or a home page? I think my students would very much benefit from such activities. A sixth grade teacher in St. Louis, MO ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I thoroughly enjoyed your students' projects. After viewing your home page, we were so motivated to have one that ours is in the beginning stages. My principal said that you might be interested in doing a joint project with another 5th grade class. WOW! I'd love to hear from you. A 5th grade teacher in Illinois ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is incredible! The number and variety of people you have reached, the value of your student products as learning resources for others, the excitement you've generated for others to create their own "place"...just wonderful. Thanks for sharing this feedback with me. I will put it to good use! I've printed out several pages to give folks here an idea of exactly what a home page is and what schools and students can do to become "producers of knowledge." An official at the Maryland State Department of Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think what these children have done and learned is wonderful. Please keep up the great work. ...I hope this will project will remain in the curriculem being taught, it is very important, especially as far as for historical understanding and learning with compassion as to the ways of our lives then and now are concerned. I encourage this work and any like it being developed. A Mandan-Hidatsa from North Dakota ------------------------------------------------------------------------ How impressive!!! I am in the process of setting up a computer lab that will have internet access and only know a tiny bit of the possibilities out there. I hope we can keep in contact. If you could give me any hints or pointers on getting started I would greatly appreciate it. A local teacher at another school ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This tesselation page looks like a great Idea. A 6th grade teacher in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When I searched the Web for Cesar Chavez, I found little to no information about him. However, I did find your student book reports. I have linked our home page to one of your student's book reports! Our school is not connected to the Internet yet, but we are supposed to be this year. Thanks for sharing your student's work with us. A teacher in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Recently, I downloaded a copy of Mary's Fifth grade class' Native American HyperCard stack. I am using it as an example to my colleagues (high school) of what is possible using the technology at our fingers. I have also bragged to others on the internet about this stack. A technology teacher in Washington State ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have examined your Fairland materials and found a wonderful resource. I try to teach Language Arts/Reading to students in grades 5, 6, 7, and 8. All of my classes LOVED your pages, your students, your student's written work, and their art. These are wonderful examples to help stimulate new ideas. Please pass along my compliments to your former students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just a note of thanks for your wonderful school homepage! I have garnered many ideas and will return often to visit. Thanks! A 3-6 grade teacher in Lexington, SC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What contrast to the green of the East Coast that your students should take an interest in the High Desert Region is remarkable. My own personal experiences in the area lead me to believe that all should experience the clarity of vision caused by the rarified atmosphere of the High Desert. The region exudes a spirituality that is difficult to put in words but is expressed in art. Bless you for exposing the children to this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wanted to tell you that I have enjoyed your home page particularly the class biographies of famous Americans. A parent from Northern Ontario ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I came to your pages looking for the pogs and saw the Native American stamps too. WoW!!! I am going to thank you on the list, too. This is terrifc! Your kids are wonderful. Give them all big hugs from me. A computer teacher in Eastern Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Last spring when I was upstairs at school, I saw your display in the hallway about Fairland's presence on the WWW. The next day, I checked it out and was so delighted that I called in the rest of my organization's staff to show off my daughters' school! I congratulate you on the work you are doing. A parent ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...I searched the web for Cesar E. Chavez and Luis' report was the only thing I found! An elementary school teacher in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for your classes tesselations, we are very involved in tesselations and Escher's art. A 5th grade class in Minnesota ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks for sending me on such a pleasant excursion at the end of my week. I explored tesselations, one of the subjects I watched teachers learn in a workshop one summer. That took me to Escher, of course, and from there to a couple other galleries. The children are wonderful. The dogs and bones were particularly creative uses of familiar objects. The insects and leaves really attracted my eye; very good style, and a wonderful eye. An Assoc Vice Chancellor of The University of Maryland System ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just visit Tessellations Project Mrs. Sulik's Fifth Grade Math Class. Cutes escher patterns by students. A artist and mathematician in Japan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I wanted to e-mail you in order to compliment the Fairland math students' tesselation artwork, which I ran across on the Internet. I think it's great that fifth-graders are already working on them. ... pass the compliment on to the students and their teacher! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've just visted... your web site and it is with great reluctance that I had to stop and get back to work now. I could have stayed on all morning! I looked at every tesselation and read four book reports (Parks, Yeager, Dunbar, and Truth). The work of your students just takes my breath away. I loved seeing their photos once I'd read the book reports. Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have enjoyed visiting your site. I am interested in getting my daughter's elementary school on the Internet. I would appreciate any information, tips or ideas you have on getting sponsors, getting up and running, sharing limited access within the school, etc. A parent at another school ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ....I stumbled upon your wonderful K-12 Web....I am very impressed by your use of the Web in the classroom, keep up the good work! A Tennessee Board of Regents' Trainer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enjoyed your home page!! I can remember elementary school and I think we only had one computer in the entire building, and the principal had the most use of it. I'm glad your students are getting the experience on the computers and in the Internet. Keep up the good work!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What a fine job you have done with your students & your technology. Please know I enjoyed looking over their reports and comments. I plan to demo your site to the rest of our Board and the middle school teachers in November. A Board of Education member in Chicago ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for "lending" us your teacher last Friday! Our public schools are just beginning to use computers in teaching as actively they are used at Fairland School. It was helpful to learn from her about the work your school is doing. I have read many of the reports that are posted on the WWW from your class and I look forward to seeing what you accompolish this year. A professor in Arkansas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I love Pogs! I am a total pog oerson! I have 158 pogs. How many do you have? I won most of mine a little while ago, but a friend of mine gave me some more. Well write back. P.S How old are you? A student (age 9) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just wanted to let you know what an excellent Web page you have concerning Native Americans. I came across it when I was helping my fourth grade daughter with her Social Studies homework. I printed out some of the stamps your students created and gave them to her teacher. I think she'll have her own stamp "activity" with the class next week. A parent in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The work your students have done is wonderful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have had a chance to revisit your school's home page and am fascinated by the creativity of your students. I wish I had the opportunity to discover computers and the World Wide Web when I was in grade school. Your students will have an incredible upper hand during their lives. A college student in Nebraska ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your site is featured in our November issue of the "Top 10 List." As you know, Learning in Motion publishes the Monthly Top 10 List on our Web site for educators and students who are interested in integrating the Internet with their schoolwork. Learning in Motion http://www.learn.motion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've just visited the electronic portraiture site and my main comment is WOW! I enjoyed every single portrait and biography, and marvelled at the creative, positive images these students have about themselves and their futures. I also read your notes about how you did it--that's pretty amazing. A graduate student in Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was very impressed with you school's web pages and think you might want to get involved in one or several projects we are working on.... A College System Administrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are an American family of eight living in a remote town in Israel. My daughter was doing a report on Alexander Graham Bell and we do not own an encyclopedia. So we searched the net and found that one of your students wrote a book report on him based on a biography. It wasn't the most comprehensive of reports but it was enough for her to finish her report about him. I must say that I am very impressed with your ideas and work about publishing your students work on the net. I myself have an electronics development company here and am planning to put up a WWW server in the near future. I would be most pleased to correspond with you about setting up a similar project here for the local American/Canadian population. In our particular community we have about 150 American families each with an average of four children each so there is alot of potential right here. CEO of a computer technology company in Israel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's so wonderfull to see an elementry school involved in this technology.It can only help to stimulate the minds of the students at your school.I was so thrilled to see Fairland Eelementry on the net, you see I attended school there from 1st grade thru 6th. ...I have Such wonderfull,fond memories of growing up in Burtonsville and my school years at Fairland.I wish all the students could realize how important their education is and how lucky they are to be in such a rich , progressive and caring school system.I now own a communications contracting buisness in California and feel the educational foundation I received at Fairland is directly responsable for my personal sucesses as an adult. A Fairland alumnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I use tessellations as a motivating projects in HS geometry. While searching the WWW for information on tessellations, I cam across "Tessellations Project" a page from the Fairland Elementary Home Page. If you don't mind my asking, how did you get images of the students work onto the page? Were these photographs that were scanned? The quality looks too good. My compliments! A high school geometry teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just thought I'd drop you a note to say I love what you did with your classe's work. We cover the same subject in my geometry class, but I never thought my students could "publish" their work so easily. Truly an inspiring idea... A geometry teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just love the pogs project! I spend much of my time teaching educators how to navigate the net and presenting at conferences. Once I discovered the pogs, I now use that as an illustration of a project that can be replicated in any classroom. A library media specialist in Columbus, Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please tell your students I really enjoyed their drawings. I am wondering if you think it is possible to teach this concept to second graders? I found it via another page as I searched for the topic *tessellations*. A second grade teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I stumbled over you web-site while "surfing" .... pretty impressive ! I particularly liked the American Indian stamp collection...also, nice touch in adding photos and student's voices in the biography section. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just saw that Fairland ES is Web School of the Month at the Franklin Institute--congratulations! You all certainly do have a great set of stuff on your pages. ...we were developing an undergraduate course in symmetry, tying its presence in music, art, wallpaper, etc. to the symmetry groups in mathematics. Seeing 4th graders get a glimpse of this multidisciplanary concept is exciting! U. of Maryland Computer Science Department ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just wanted to say thank you for putting this summaries on web-pages. The information is really helpfull! I think this is a very nice way to make schools a part of the internet community. A reader from Israel. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just looking for information on Hank Aaron found the delightful book report. Great job! A corporate Director of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Carol's work and her students' tessellations are lovely! A middle school teacher in California ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I would like to feature the Fairland Elementary women's history project in our next newletter. I would like to include the roport on Rosa Parks by Eloise with the photo of Rebecca and her artwork. Newletter editor at the American Association of University Women ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I loved your story on pochohantas ,the best story on her yet. I felt that I was there with her. why did you pick to write a story on her? PS.and I loved your drawing. A student at Ralph Bunche School (New York) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I've put a link to your school's fifth grade stamp designs page at The Incredible Art Department at http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1009/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I just wanted to say how great I thought the tesselation project turned out. I did that with my 7th gradde class a couple of years ago and some of these looked better! A 7th grade teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We've visited the home pages of elementary schools all over the world, and we would like to include Fairland Elementary School's Web site as part of the "K-5 CyberTrail", an online, virtual tour of the Web we're developing for elementary school educators. WMHT Educational Telecommunications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am very interested in the work you did with your students. I, too, am an avid potter and look to the Indian culture and art design for some ideas. I was wondering if you could tell me for some future reference if the students learned about the cultures while they made their art projects? Also, did the students have the opportunity to choose their art medium, and about how long did you spend on this lesson? I have been looking through many sites for ideas and your site was very eye catching. If you could respond I would appreciate it very much! A college student in Pennsylvania ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...what a great idea putting your students' bookreports on the Web is. I found your sight while preparing a lesson plan for my club on using search engines to find information quickly. As a mini-test I decided to ask everyone to find Chuck Yeager's birthday. I must congradulate you on being one of only three sites I found to have this information. (The other two are not easy to find.) Please let your students know what an invaluable service they are providing to others around the globe. President of the Embry-Riddle Future Space Explorers and Developers Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My name is John Schmitz and I am working with Scholastic to design a While surfing the web for info on Rosa Parks, I came across Rebecca's stamp from your 5th grade project, showed it to the editors here, who loved it. Scholastic Interactive Bureau ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Is there any chance that any of the Native American Commemorative Stamp Designs will become real stamps? I am writing an article on gourds that have appeared on stamps around the world and really like the gourd rattle stamp design....I really like the design and idea of the gourd rattle stamp and think it's very appropriate for a stamp--in fact I thought it was a real stamp design!. A Newsletter Writer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your page is great. No wonder you received all those awards. Congratulations! A media specialist ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On our new page we have a link to other schools we enjoyed visiting and Fairland is one of them. We particularly liked your electronic portraits and your Maryland pogs. A computer lab teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was just jumping around on the web searching for some info on Chuck Yeager for a research project. I think the reports on here are pretty neat... I enjoyed the report on Chuck Yeager that Daniel did, it was an interesting report. A high school student in Alaska ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...I came across your 94-95 book reports doing a Lycos web search for Rosa Parks and I've added your web site to my class's African American History web site which is temporarily located at http://birch.berkeley.edu/joe The link page where your class is referenced is currently at http://birch.berkeley.edu/Links Continued success with your class on the web. You're doing great things. A 3rd grade teacher in Mill Valley, CA. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was sitting down at the computer and doing a web search when I came across the Fairland Elementary School web page. I graduated from Fairland in 1973. It was a great joy to see the work that the students have done, and the effort they have put into being online. You all have certainly made my day. It gave me a piece of home. It is great to see the how a classroom project can be made into more than one dimension by preparing the material for an internet web page. Keep up the good work. A NASA enginneer and Fairland alumnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for putting up such a wonderful page! I am currently writing training on HyperStudio for teachers here in Ft. Worth, Tx. and I'm using tessellations as an example of one of the features of HyperStudio. With your permission, I would like to both use some of your students' work as examples of the process and put a link on our homepage to your project. Good teaching... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A friend and I are doing a lesson plan for a 4th grade classroom to teach tessellations. We saw the works of Mrs. Sulik's 5th graders and we were really amazed at the imagination and creativeness that went into the art. We were wondering if Mrs. Sulik could give us any suggestions as to how we could teach this to 4th graders. A college student in Allendale, MI ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations on such a wonderful web page. I'm excited to see students and teachers using the resources available on the Internet in their classrooms. Bank Street College of Education ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I was doing a Lycos search on Paul Dunbar for one of my critical essays, and ran across your wife's page. ...they did a great job. =) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The work your students have done is wonderful. Maybe you could help me sometime?? Thanks for sharing. Wonderful A sixth grade teacher from Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I enjoyed seeing the story teller project on Fairland's web page. Thank you for sharing them with us, and for giving the students at Fairland a chance to understand how computers are used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm at the Education Summit in Palisades, New York, where IBM has set up computers for reporters to access the Web. I've been looking at your students' work. Very inspiring. I wish the nation's governors and CEOs could visit your Web site to see the great stuff going on in your classroom. National Education Association ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I recently had the pleasure of sharing the wonderful stamps your class created. Our fourth grade is currently studying Native Americans, focusing this month on the Southwest Indians. Your display fit perfectly! I applaud your ingenuity and hard work. Interestingly, I found your page by accident and the next week I found your Famous Americans article in Classroom Connect. I would appreciate more ideas and more importantly how to make the plans work in a classroom. I am responsible for a lab and am in the process of helping teachers have successful experiences with their classroom computers. A teacher in St. Petersburg, Florida ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We surfed across your site today and thought that it was very interesting. We enjoy learning what students are doing at other schools around the world. We especially like learning about programs that we might try to bring to our school. The Students of a Middle School in Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You've got a great site here. I really enjoyed looking around your school.... A teacher from Astoria, Oregon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you. I was sitting down at the computer and doing a web search when I came across the Fairland Elementary School web page. I graduated from Fairland in 1973. It was a great joy to see the work that the students have done, and the effort they have put into being online. You all have certainly made my day. It gave me a piece of home. Fairland is full of fond memories for me. A Fairland Alumnus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for putting up such a wonderful page! I am currently writing training on HyperStudio for teachers here in Ft. Worth, Tx. and I'm using tessellations as an example of one of the features of HyperStudio. With your permission, I would like to both use some of your students' work as examples of the process and put a link on our homepage to your project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations on such a wonderful web page. I'm excited to see students and teachers using the resources available on the Internet in their classrooms. Bank Street College of Education ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I spent the past hour looking at your school's home page and all the exciting things happening. It has left me both energized and discouraged. A teacher in Florida ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I read your lesson plan in Classroom Connect and then found Fairland School Web pages. Your ideas are terrific and your student projects - especially the self-portraits are excellent. A teacher in Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ What a treat for me to see Fairland's home page on the WEB! I am so proud! I'm going to use it in an article I'm going to write for the Journal on web pages. A Fairland Alumna ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks so much for putting together the web page on curriculum connections on the web! I'm planning on using it for a display at our Technology Fair on the 23rd of this month (if that's OK with you). You just saved me oodles of work! A teacher in Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mrs. O'Haver you should be very proud of the homepage you and your students have developed at Fairland. The reason the I called you Mrs. O'Haver is because I'm a former student of yours (class of '76. By the way, you the same to me now as you did 20 years ago, which is great. A systems enginner for an information systems contrator ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your Fairfield Elementary site is wonderful! We've listed it as a link to social studies sites on the National Council for the Social Studies web site, NCSS Online, at http://www.ncss.org. We know that our members around the world will find great ideas for teaching at your site. National Council for the Social Studies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tell your kids we're trying to get ready for them when they grow up, and we hope to see some of them in our classes.... A college professor in Washington, DC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My experience with your class was the first in which kids were eager to show me their work....not just get on tv. Weekend news anchor for a local TV station ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I was thoroughly impressed with your fifth grader's book reports. I plan on using your idea of publishing my students work once I become a teacher A student teacher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We are some students of middle school "Guido Dorso" in Naples, Italy. We are very happy to navigate in www! This is first time!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I saw Fairland mentioned on the news the other day, just as I was preparing a workshop for my colleagues.... Everyone was very impressed with what you're doing! Chairperson of a Department of Linguistics at a University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I appreciated your enthusiasm for involving students in web projects. The positive transformations possible in students of all ability levels are encouraging. A Geography and Earth Science professor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Your students'] reports are so on target to what our site is about, I was wondering if they would want to "freelance" for us. We are always in need of content...We can offer a credit, and possibly a T-shirt! Webmaster Consultant of the My Hero project ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I am awarding second place to Peter C.'s picture of a Kachina Doll on your Fairview Elementary page. You can find the award tonight on http://www.in.net/~kenroar/bestofnet.html. The Incredible Art Department ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I write for computer magazines in Taiwan. I was looking to see how computer can help children research. We are very impressed with your work and the work of your amazing students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My name is Andi and I live in New York. I have a little girl, Ki, who is in the 4th grade. We have just spent a lovely evening, together, looking at the wonderful commemorative stamps that you young people created. It is something that I would like to thank you for sharing... so much time, energy, work and talent! You have touched someone very far away... but so close, because we can communicate our ideas, words and how we see this world through computers and the internet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm very impressed to see the scope of the projects you have developed. The best thing about the site (in my opinion) is that it's easy to model. Other schools can do similar projects--you aren't doing anything that requires extraordinary hardware, etc. A judge for the NII awards ------------------------------------------------------------------------