Tell about any unique sights found around their home. It could be any different looking tree, rock, building, etc. Please tell us the benefit of involving teachers and students in your Grass Roots project. The focus of our project has been to help teachers and students learn skills necessary for accessing and then sharing information through computer technology. With the disadvantage of having only two computers with access to the Internet in our elementary school, there was somewhat limited scheduling of classroom implementation of computer technology as planned.
More time is necessary for teachers and students to acquire skills.
With an addition to our school under construction, we will have a computer lab in our school for the Fall of 1999. In the meantime, enthusiasm for our project is spreading and teachers are amazed at the progress students are making in class activities underway. Please outline the main steps of your project. Attempted to make contact with Jamaican literacy link up through email, fax, and telephone, but finally with no feedback our classes involved decided that flexibility was necessary. We modified our project designs and searched for individual class link ups through ePal Classroom exchange and IECC Email Classroom Connections.