Working with the athletes has made my job more fun, especially because I am the antithesis of athletics myself. I get all I need through these kids. Students would then plot the respondents' location on a map. Within hours of sending the E-mail to only 20 people in Street's Yahoo address book, students were receiving messages back from China, South America, and several Southern states. Now, one year later, Street estimates they've received more than 150,000 responses to that first message.
People send wedding pictures, baptism pictures, baby pictures, dog pictures.
We got photos of a zebra and other animals from a missionary in South Africa, and a man from Antarctica sent us shots of himself on the ice. Street says the experiment has been a powerful lesson for his small-town school. I'll never again doubt what a tremendous and sometimes overwhelming learning tool the Internet really is. Major Shakespeare Y ou probably wouldn't expect to find a retired Air Force pilot doing pirouettes and dancing around a classroom of young teenagers to get them excited about Shakespeare. But Donald Huston , a ninth grade English teacher at Chickasha Junior High School in Oklahoma, has never been conventional.