Using
the Internet and e-mail to communicate actively with people in other countries
and other cultures.
As part of our project on Newfoundland, we
decided that we should try to contact schools by e-mail. By doing this
we aimed to achieve these objectives:
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to ask pupils in Newfoundland about their interests
and everyday life and by this means to obtain some first-hand information
from young people there which would serve as a useful addition to our background
reading and to our reading of The Shipping News.
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to give pupils in Newfoundland an opportunity
to ask us questions about Norway.
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to give ourselves useful practice in writing
and in particular in the genre of writing e-mails both to ask questions
about Newfoundland and to answer their questions about Norway.
With help from Craig White and Alison Dyke in
Newfoundland, we contacted four schools:
Our students then divided into groups and
each group was responsible for emailing with their particular school.
Click on the name of the school to look at
comments on how this worked and at some of the e-mails which went back
and forth between us and them.