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Mrs G found this great story for this morning's Dawn Patrol, about an elementary school class that developed an on-line relationship with a Marine in Iraq via email and a blog:
Students at Kendall Demonstration Elementary School at Gallaudet University had used e-mail and a school Web log to get first-hand accounts of the insurgency in Iraq and the daily survival of a U.S. Marine stationed there.That gets my vote for best use of a web log for 2005. The site is here. Teachers (or people who know teachers) take note - whether you're linking GIs or other folks in far off lands it's a great way to bring the world to your classroom.Yesterday, the 42 students met their personal link for the first time.
Sgt. Earl "Jay" Beatty, 31, joined the school's sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders at a homecoming ceremony on Gallaudet's campus in Northeast. He returned home to Mitchellville March 18.
The students, who are deaf or have partial hearing loss, used sign-language interpreters to thank a tearful Sgt. Beatty and his wife, Donna, 30, for their contributions to their country and for their correspondence with the students.