A New Twist on the Old Friendly Letter

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A New Twist on the Old Friendly Letter

• Carmi Gulick
• Parma City Schools
• 4th Grade Teacher

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History of the Project

• This project was created as part of a graduate
  class for Baldwin-Wallace College. The project
  had to collect data and share information with
  others at a distance.
• Earlier I had participated in the Great Mail
  Race.
• My partner and I decided to put a new twist on
  this project by bringing in some of the Ohio
  Technology Standards as well as Ohio Language
  Arts Standards.

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Where to Find It
The site can be found at http//www.thegulicks.com
/carmi/penpalusa
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Features

• Student pages
• Teacher pages
• States
• Statistics
• Archived statistics

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Student Pages

• Templates
• Examples
• Research links

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Teacher Pages

• Explanation of the process
• Invite others
• Feedback
• Standards (done for National Standards since this
  was to be a nationwide project)
• It does meet Ohio Language Arts Standards
  (Writing Applications) as well as Ohio Technology
  Standards (Technology for Productivity
  Applications, Technology and Information Literacy)

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How My Kids Keep Track
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States/Statistics/Archive

• This is a visual way to show participation by
  state.
• The map is updated weekly.
• Schools can check the site to see who is
  participating.
• Information is sent either through U.S. Mail or
  via e-mail (PenPalUSA_at_thegulicks.com)

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Thanks for coming. If you would like to see
samples from this project please come up front to
view the scrapbook my class has created.
To contact me e-mail gulickc_at_parmacityschools.org