PROJECT IDEA EXCHANGE "PIE" MONTHLY NEWSLETTER VOLUME 1: NO. 10, SEPTEMBER 2002 www.mcvts.net/pie PROGRAM OF THE MONTH One of PIE's newest members is Joyce Lee Mui Kwang of Canberra Secondary School of Singapore. Joyce and her students have created a wonderful communications project, web radio broadcasts and an e-newspaper. To best understand the program, allow me to share Joyce's description of her efforts.   "Hello, I am a teacher from Canberra Secondary School, Singapore. We would like to invite schools from around the world to participate in our project. I am looking forward to your participation on our project. Here are the details: E-bulletin URL: http://www.canberrasec.net/canberra/bulletin.html"   "We have been running an online newspaper and live broadcast radio station in our school. We would like to now extend this to the global community. We hope to feature: 1) News stories written by students from schools across the globe. 2) Audio/video interviews. 3) Stories could be local or worldwide, community or even school based. 4) Students interviewing each other through email, recording video/audio and sending them to us." "The project aims at producing an e-newspaper written by students around the world as well as an Internet broadcast radio station produced, recorded and presented by students. We have students already trained to produce these programs so we need schools/students who can add to our content." "Main tools needed: video, audio recording, and, email Project Date: Aug 2002 to Oct 2002" "Please email me if you are interested to join or have questions: joycelm.css@canberrasec.org" Students at Perth Amboy Tech High School in New Jersey, USA were invited by Joyce to join the Canberra Secondary School students in working on the project. The students at both schools have already begun sharing information. The "ice-breaker," created by Joyce's students was a sharing of TOP TEN poll results concerning the favorite foods and movies of the students at the two schools. Please take a few minutes and look at this great student centered communications program created by Joyce and her students at Canberra Secondary School in Singapore. My students at Perth Amboy Tech are very excited about working with students in another country. Given the opportunity, I am positive that your students which be just as excited. MEMBER NEWS Project Idea Exchange is proud to welcome the following new members to its steady growing worldwide membership. Christian Archtert; Droste-Hulshoff-Gymnasium Rottewil; Rottweil, Germany Gail DeMarco; Northeast High School; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Nahida Huseynova; Lyceum #220; Baku, Azerbaijan Francoise Kervan; College J-J Rousseau; Thonon, France Ana Kochneva; School #16; Bukhara City, Uzbekistan Mi-Kyeong Park; Sam-Cheok Girls Junior High School; Sam Cheok Shi, Gangwondo, South Korea Fred Peterson; Highland Park High School; Highland Park, New Jersey, USA An updated version of the PIE Membership should soon be posted. For more detailed information describing the new PIE members, including their email addressees, and for the full membership listing, please access the PIE website at www.mcvts.net/pie or http://pie.mcvts.net and click on MEMBERSHIP LISTING. All new members should have received that "login" and "password" which are needed to access the secure areas of the PIE website. If you have not received this information, or if you are having problems, please contact me as soon as possible. I am creating an archive of member logins and passwords, starting with members who joined after June 2002.  If you forgot your "login" and "password" contact me. If I have a record of it, I will email to you. If not, I will contact my district's technology department so that you will be issued a new "login" and "password" for your use. PIE "TIP OF THE MONTH"     Interested in the weather? Everyone is. Trying to find something to talk about? Looking for a point of interest to share with students working in email exchanges? Simply go to www.weather.com/travel and gain access to more current weather information than one can imagine. There are numerous features that permit the user to access current date, much of it illustrated by satellite maps. Other benefits include a detailed section entitled, "How Weather Affects Your Life." Great information is available to enhance student learning and interest in various subject areas. A word of caution when students use the website. Advertising is included on each page that you, as the teacher, may wish to monitor and restrict. Otherwise, this is a great site. DIRECTOR'S NOTES     Project Idea Exchange has expanded again. I am pleased to announce that the Environmental Council of Washington, DC, USA has created a link from their website (www.enviroliteracy.org) to the PIE website. To reach the PIE link, scroll down the Environmental Council home page to "For Teachers" (click on), then scroll down on the next page to "Connecting Classrooms" (click on) and your will find five website currently listed. Since this partner occurred a few days ago, I have not yet had the opportunity to fully explore the Environmental Council website, but what I have seen so far appears to be extremely beneficial. In a future newsletter, I will share with you more information about the Environmental Council website.     Are you involved in an educational project that is successful? Share it with by posting it on the PIE website and/or sharing it with me to include 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).