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CITY QUEST
International research project
Homepage: http://www.pabohaarlem.nl/cityquest/index.html

Hosted by:
Rene de Vries (teacher in Haarlem, The Netherlands)
Joan Goble (teacher in Cannelton, Indiana USA)
Hajime Yanase (teacher in Hiyoshi, Japan)

Email: city_quest@hotmail.com

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NEWSLETTER - Volume 3 - December 2001
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HHappy Holidays to all of our participants! We hope all is well with you and that your research is going well. We have attached our Christmas message to you. We wish to thank Peter Reynolds, children's book author and illustrator, for the use of this wonderful artwork!
To view more of his beautiful work, go to his website at: http://www.fablevision.com/index.htm
**Also, he has a place that creative educators can find his art and animation which is free to use to "animate their mission" - Go to: http://www.fablevision.com/northstar/affiliation to see.

We want to announce some new additions:

We have more new reports from St. Jude Elementary of Indianapolis, Indiana. Check them out, they are great!

There is also now a link to some wonderful travel brochures that the third grade of Charles Quentin Elementary in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Check out these at: http://www.lz95.org/cq/cityquest/CityQuest.htm

Thank you for these great reports!

Also, we now have the whole City Quest website in Japanese! Just click on the Japan flag in order to view this version of City Quest.

If you have not already seen....we also have reports from San Banedetto School in Rome, Italy and Atchison Elementary School in Atchison, Kansas. The reports from Rome are of: the Center of Rome which includes the Colosseum and the Imperial Forum and more. There are also links to reports from Australia and New Zealand on this site!
To view these reports, go to our Tourist section of the City Quest Map and you will see links to all of them.
We wish to thank you for joining our project and we certainly hope that all is well with you. You can view the participants list at:
http://www.pabohaarlem.nl/cityquest/tourist/e-tourist.html
We very happy to publish your reports on our website as soon as you are ready with them. Let us know if you have any questions about sending in the reports or the photos.

Also, your online work can be entered in the Global Schoolhouse Cyberfair 2002...this is an website competition which rewards works that promote communities...and what is special about communities. Check out Cyberfair and see if your website work could be entered: http://www.globalschoolhouse.org/cf/index.html
The theme of this year's Cyberfair is "Care and Unite" as a tribute to the Sept 11 tragedy.

The 2002 Olympics will begin soon! Salt Lake City, Utah is getting ready! Check out the latest on the Torch Relay, the Olympic Arts Festival, and read up on the Bios of the Olympic Athletes on the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Website: http://www.saltlake2002.com
You can also see the 2002 Olympics Education area at: http://www.uen.org/2002/
There is one special program called "One School, One Country" - it offers students from Utah the opportunity to establish links of friendship with peers in distant lands. Public and private schools in Utah are paired with countries participating in the Olympic Winter Games of 2002. It is really a great idea...see what you think.

If you would like to check out ways to get involved in collaborating with other schools in other cities around the world, check out "Friendship Through Education" which is featured on the Global Schoolnet website. It offers many ways to work with schools worldwide. The direct link to this is: http://www.friendshipthrougheducation.org/

If you wish us to link to your reports on your site...or you have already sent us links to your reports... if you would like to place our logo on your site, let us know and we will send the logo to you.

We believe that your city, town, or village is special and we want to help you tell others about how special it is to you and why. Please e-mail us if you have any questions or concerns.

Joan, Rene, and Hajime
CITY QUEST cohosts

http://www.pabohaarlem.nl/cityquest/index.html
E-Mail: city_quest@hotmail.com

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