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Hi Phil,

*** Quoting Phil Spooner to Chris Rowan ***

PS> kids are really excited. Parents too...I had a parent club
PS> looking at the echo one evenig two weeks ago.  They flipped over
PS> the coral story from Queensland and the color story from New
PS> England. This project sold them on the use of modems and
PS> connectivity in education.

That's GREAT!!  I read and re-read that posting from Australia.  I've been doing this for over a year now, and I'm just as flabbergasted now as when I started.  I'm really glad that GVN helped in selling parents on modems and educational telecom.  Ken Blystone (SysOp of _The Academy VS-BBS_) told me once that the problem in getting more schools online is NOT technological or even fiscal in nature.  Modems, computers, and phone lines are relatively easy to come by these days.  It is essentially a PEOPLE pro
blem.  Administrators, parents, and especially teachers need to be convinced that educational telecom is worth the extra effort.  When people like you go the extra mile and demonstrate educational telecom to parents, administrators, and teachers, we all benefit.

I've never met a kid who didn't like using a computer to send and receive messages.  Whenever I am absent, I keep in touch with my students via modem. They call _The Lyceum_ and we "chat," which gives me an opportunity to point out some of the elements of grammar, syntax, punctuation, spelling, and so on. I also get a general idea how the day is progressing.  Imagine if EVERY teacher had this capability.  What if every student had a modem-equipped PC and could post messages for the teacher about assignment
s, projects, personal problems, etc.?

     Best regards,
     Chris


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