PROJECT IDEA EXCHANGE "PIE" MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME 3: NO. 5 March 2004 http://pie.mcvts.net PROGRAM OF THE MONTH Are you searching for an approach to use to involve your students in learning about life in the past and practice their English writing at the same time? If you are, I suggest that you look into "I Remember…" an educational project being conducted and posted on the PIE website. Simply stated, "I Remember…" is an effort to record, document and share remembrances of life. Students will be asked to seek out someone who has a remembrance of a past event that will assist others in learning about the Human Experience. Members can also post their own remembrances. The remembrances need not be ones of epic portions. They need not be those of a well-known situation, but rather they need to be the memories of what we, as humans, have experienced. Once an event has been successfully documented, each document will be posted on the Project Idea Exchange website (http://pie.mcvts.net),  permitting students and others around the world, who support education, to read about, react to and develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for the role that each has played in the creation of the Human Experience. "I Remember…" is an educational program that can be adjusted to fit almost any grade level. This project has been "tested" and has produced some wonderful results. To learn more about "I Remember…" and to read a few of the posted interviews, access the PIE website (http://pie.mcvts.net), go to the MESSAGE FORUM/HISTORY PROJECTS and then click on "I Remember…" You will find a full description of the project. To make the project easier to implement, included on the website are interview forms that can be used along with suggested websites that explore the concept of documenting personal experiences. Contact Ernie Read (reade@mail.mcvts.net or erreadiii@aol.com) for more details or assistance is taking part in this program. Please get your students and yourself involved! Remember that the past is often the key that unlocks our future! MEMBER NEWS Project Idea Exchange is proud to welcome the following new members to its steady growing worldwide membership. Dorota Haraf: Gimnazjum no.1 Teacher Bartoszyce, Poland Yasser Hussein Omar: Hosni Mubarak Secondary School Teacher Alexandria, Egypt PIE members can now be found in thirty-one countries on six continents. Please share PIE with others and encourage them to join. PIE "TIP OF THE MONTH" The opportunity now exists for your students and you to take a virtual tour of the beauty and excitement of five thousand years Egyptian civilization. Simply access "Eternal Egypt" (www.eternalegypt.org), an amazing in depth examination of Egypt's history. The images and information provided by this website are as good as you will find anywhere. To fully access all the segments of the site, you might be required to download one or more of the free programs that bring Egypt to life for the user. Access "Eternal Egypt" (www.eternalegypt.org), this website is too good of a source to ignore. DIRECTOR'S NOTES Are you involved in an educational project that is successful? Do you have a website that you wish to share? Are you looking to join or create a project? If so, share your topic, idea, question or such with others by posting it on the PIE website. Also share it with me so that I can include your topic, idea, question or such in the next monthly newsletter. Looking for other schools to work with, do the same. Do you have ideas but need some assistance; contact me (erreadiii@aol.com;  reade@mail.mcvts.net). I am always available to assist you in whatever manner possible! One other note of interest. If you have been contacting me using "EPALS.COM" please note the following change in my email address. I can now be reached at erread@epals.com. I apologize for any difficulties or confusion that this address change might have caused. Be Well, Happy and Safe! Ernie Read/ PIE Director