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Re: [school-discuss] see ya later



Doug,

The school is in my town, and Brett was a "classroom volunteer"

I met him one afternoon, and was hooping to catch him again before he left.
I think we will make another contact soon, I have some hardware for him to
take up to Nepal.

Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Loss" <>
To: <schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net>; <bhartsho@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 5:27 AM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] see ya later


> brett hartshorn wrote:
> > I'm going off the mailing list.  I will be going to Nepal for five
months.  I won't be able to
> > check my email while there, and i don't want my mail box to explode
while i'm gone.
> >
> > I will be teaching English and helping with Ganeshas Project.  If you
haven't heard of Ganeshas
> > Project it's a project to bring linux and computers to people in remote
areas of Nepal.
> > http://www.ganeshas-project.org/
> >
> > The kids in ESL class at lincoln elm like their linux box.  I showed
them blender3d, and how to
> > make the monkey face happy and sad, they thought this was very cool.
> > I talked to the administration about using linux in the other classes
(they are using macs
> > rightnow), i guess you can't teach something without the school district
approval first.  ESL is
> > different, anything you can do to get them to speak english is allowed.
> >
> Good luck, Brett!  If you can, keep us informed about the
> progress, of Ganesha's Project (it was mentioned in a Linux in
> education report a while back, as I recall).
>
> Is there anyone else at Lincoln Elem. who would be interested in
> subscribing to schoolforge-discuss?  It would be a shame to lose
> all contact with them.
>
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