voodikon
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 Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:34 am Post subject: for those of you teaching kids (7-18yo): possible project |
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hi all,
received this in my e-mail today and though the deadline is approaching quickly, it looks like a really cool way to motivate some of your non-adult students. i find giving them a "real" task can often provide incentive that the general assignment does not.
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My name is Anna Kitteringham and I work for Peace Child International, a
small educational charity based in the UK. I am currently working on a book
about Sustainable Transport that will be written and edited entirely by
children and young people and was hoping that you would like to be
involved. I am looking for exciting articles, stories, poems, pictures and
photographs from children and young people about transport where they live
and how they travel to school.
I would welcome contributions from anywhere in the world.
There are lots of different topics to think about, all the information is
also available on our website www.peacechild.org/transport.
The best contributions will be published in a book for children. Everyone
that enters work will receive a certificate and those that have
contributions published will be sent a copy of the book. Some participants
will be invited onto a virtual editorial board allowing them to give
opinions on the books design and contents over the internet.
Any help in disseminating this request or to collect contributions for this
book would be greatly appreciated. All I need you to do is to spread the
word about this project and to encourage as many people as possible to
enter work for the book. I would really appreciate if you could ask all
children and young people that you know to participate and would be
delighted if you would contribute too.
Many thanks,
Anna Kitteringham
Peace Child International
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this link will take you directly to the pdf which explains what the project is all about and in what capacities children can participate (it's not only writing, though that would be most directly related to english teaching, but as a way to be inclusive for those students whose writing might not be up to par). yes, it's quite clearly biased toward uk students, but they say they welcome submissions from all around the world, so it'd be awesome if they actually got that:
http://www.peacechild.org/transport/pci_transport_call.pdf |
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