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Dear Carol,
Please disregard any previous gibberish.
Sorry about the fromat of this message but I have had great
difficulty in uploading this message for some reason (beyond
me and the sysop...)
In a previous message I wrote concerning the possibility of
plagiarising Mathmagic in Australia.  I think your project is
very exciting and I would love to get Australian schools
involved..........  However, at this stage of the year, it is a
little difficult as our school year finishes soon.  So what I
would like to do is to take Mathmagic as it exists and add it to
what is called the Australaian Educational Telecommunications
Calendar (aka Oz.Projects).  This is a set of projects run across
Australia (mainly the Eastern states at present) involving
schools communicating with each other.  It runs on an electronic
meswsaging sysyem called Keylink, which is available nationwide.
Examples of projects currently running include Writers- on-line,
International Writers Week, Where in Australia? (a Carmen- style
activity), Talk to a Scientist, Price Watch, Austour, etc. ......
With your permission, what I would like to do is add Mathmagic to
next years calendar and run the project using the format and the
problems you have set already (Cycles 1 and 2 and any others to
come).  When the project over here is up and running, I will tell
participating schools about your project and encourage them to
participate on an international basis, as well as providing them
with telephone numbers of BBSs that are part of K12Net.
................My aims would be the same as you indicated for
Mathmagic in the initial publicity, etc., but with the initial
intention of encouraging Australian schools to participate on an
Australian basis, and then encouraging them to become involved
with overseas schools as well.  From my experience with
Australian schools and telecommunications, you need to break them
in gently and if I tried too early to get them on to K12 it may
not be as successful.  Besides which Keylink (despite its
shortcomings) is an easier (and cheaper??) introduction for most
schools.  .......This, of course, assumes that will be running
Mathmagic next year.  Is this likely? If so at time of year are
you likely to do so? .........What do you think of this? Do you
require any further information?  Let me know of any queries/
concerns that you have and I will attempt to address them.  I
would like to know definitely by the end of November as the
closing date for entries in next years calendar is around then.
.......If the answer is No then thats fine - it will be one less
job for me next year.
Regards, Graham
I also apologise abioiut the short notice ..;. I have been trying to upload this for the past 10 days withoiut success.


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