Tourist
Office
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 ===================================== NEWSLETTER - Volume 8 - June/July 2002 ===================================== Hello to all of our participants! We hope that you all is well with you and your students. We know that many of you are on summer vacation. We want to update you on what has been happening with City Quest.
City Quest will be going through some changes in the very near
future. We plan on updating the site to make it easier to navigate
through, making it more kid-friendly as well. The look of the
main page will have hotspots with links to different sections of our
site. This change should be ready August.
If you have not sent in your town reports yet, let us know if you need any guidance on sending them in. We are very happy to help you. We have several reports published on our websites. They are from USA, The Netherlands, Japan, Canada, South Africa, and Italy. If you have not had a chance to see them...go to our Tourist section of City Quest at: http://www.pabohaarlem.nl/cityquest/index.html Great news! City Quest was highlighted in Classroom Connect's February Newsletter in the Global Projects section. We recommend Classroom Connect's Newsletter - from page to page there is an abundance of information on how to incorporate the internet into your classroom curriculum. Classroom Connect also has a website at: http://www.classroom.net It has many resources and ideas just waiting for you to use!
We feel it would be great to hear from you all about what
sort of special festivals do you have going on in your town or city
in these next few weeks.
Cannelton, Indiana, for instance, recently celebrated the rededication of its most famous building, the Cannelton Cotton Mill. The festival was June 8-9, and it celebrated the saving of the 153 year-old mill. To see information about this go to the Cannelton Cotton Mill website at: http://www.siec.k12.in.us/cannelton/Cotton_Mill.htm
Send to us information on your upcoming festivals. We would
love to publish this with your other reports...or if you have not
had a chance to send in the reports, send in what you have and we
will keep adding as you send it all in.
If you need ideas for your reports on your town, try
visiting other reports that have been turned in to City Quest.
http://www.pabohaarlem.nl/cityquest/tourist/e-tourist.html Another
place to visit is a great website that features holiday and festival
information and other cultural issues of several different countries
is the Folklore and Family Traditions Website: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/folklore/peter/index.html
Another great website which can take you all over the world
(Far and Near as it is titled) is at: http://www.far-and-near.com/
These both can give you inspiration to help you and your
students with their reports.
We will send out another e-mail newsletter at the end of
July to beginning of August...with the announcements of all of the
changes we have made. Keep checking the website yourself and give us
your suggestions, we will be sure to consider them.
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 (c) 2001, 2002 - Rene de Vries, Joan Goble and Hajime Yanase |
