To:
Steve,
I only had time to review parts of your web pages, but they
do look very
impressive. I really liked the way you tied DaVinci into
Science concepts.
I can't wait to share it with my art teacher! It will fit
perfectly into
our Science unit on Man, Matter & Energy this year.
I would also like to coach a ThinkQuest Junior team this
year for the first
time. I was wondering if your team members would like to
mentor mine. This
would be a good way for yours to reinforce their skills by
sharing and mine
would love the interaction with High School students. We
could start with
emailing or chatting back and forth and then go from there.
I have to mention that we are limited to a couple computers
in the classroom
and one phone line that is shared with the fax in the
office. So that your
"15 year old machines" are very similar to ours. Your
multiethnic
backgrounds would also be an experience for my children as
we are a mostly
rural school with very little differing ethnicity.
You can view our latest project on the internet on the
Kidlink Kidwriters
page at:
http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/Kidwriters/Mystery/Maryland/index.html
and our web page at:
http://www.jarrettsville.org/dublin/
I am off to a class this morning, but will take time to
write in your guest
book later this week or next week.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Barb Schulz
Date:
Sat, 27 Jun 1998 22:33:57 PDT
From: Judi Weinstein" judih@hotmail.com
To:
Thanks so much for the referrals. I'm all
alone in my English
Department and lo and behold, a wonderful
present of beauty is dropped
before my eyes. Leonardo is always
welcome around here and your Our
Town site also gives me ideas.
Congratulations on being appreciated by
the powers above and may you
have many more fruitful experiences to
enhance the Internet explosion.
Happy Summer.
Judi Haggai
Kibbutz Nir Oz
Western Negev, ISRAEL
Subject:
Leonardo and Vatican Web site
Date:
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 16:56:50 +0100
From:
"vati2" ctvteca@ctv.va
To:
Dear Mr. Feld,
We appreciated your WEB page about Leonardo. For a link from the Vatican site you need an
authorization by the Internet Office of the Holy See. You can obtain any information at this address:
uffico-internet@net.va
Sincerely yours
Dr. Mario Farneti - Head of CTV Archive
Date:
Mon, 6 Jul 1998 10:29:06 -0400
From:
Linda_Roberts@ed.gov (Linda Roberts)
To:
CC:
Julie_Kaminkow@ed.gov (Julie Kaminkow), Carole_Wacey@ed.gov (Carole Wacey),
Judy_Heumann@ed.gov (Judy Heumann), Mike_Smith@ed.gov (Mike Smith),
Kirk_Winters@ed.gov (Kirk Winters)
Dear Steve:
It was a delight to MC the student awards at the
National Educational
Computing Conference in San Diego before an audience of
several
thousand people. Think Quest awardees were there as
well!
Thanks for the invitation to visit your web site...I've
just returned
from travel and will try to get to it this week. I am
delighted to
learn that your site is accessible to the hearing
impaired and that
you have built links to other sites as well. I am
sending your note
on to Judy Heumann, Assistant Secretary for Special
Education as well.
Linda
Subject:
Re: Invitation to visit our arts driven web site resource
Date:
Sun, 26 Jul 1998 08:37:24 EDT
From: NEW YORK STATE ODDYSSEY OF THE MIND
NYOMSDMW@aol.com
To:
Steve
Hi ! Board approved publishing your address. No OM newsletter
published until the fall. Look forward to hearing from you again.
Sorry about the wait for reply but in the summer I'm not on line
much.
Mary
Subject:
Saluto
Date:
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:42:27 +0200
From:
"IG Porto San Giorgio" ig.psgiorgio@sapienza.it
To:
Hi Steve,
I am sending this message from the Centro Informagiovani
( Information
Center for the Young) with Marcello La Sorda, and with Prof. Diana
Fioretti, of the Cultural Center of Porto S. Giorgio, both thanking you for
the marvellous website created by your students of the JFK School on
Leonardo da Vinci's world-wide information for which we wish you a great
winning prize.
Please, answer to this address. All the best,
Rina de Firenze
Author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa
_____________________________________
Centro Informagiovani
Via Gentili 16
63017 Porto San Giorgio (AP)
URL http://www.sapienza.it/informagiovani/psgiorgio
E-Mail: ig.psgiorgio@sapienza.it
Date:
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:20:07 -0500
From:
Amy congrats@4kids.org
To:
Congratulations! Your Web site, Why is Mona Lisa
Smiling, may be featured in an issue of www.4kids.org.
Www.4kids.org is a Universal Press Syndicate (UPS)
syndicated feature published by over 150 newspapers in
the US and Canada. Each issue is either printed with the
comics for the Sunday edition or published in a daily issue
each week and has been since May
5, 1996. Www.4kids.org also has its own Web site at
http://www.4kids.org
If you would like to know more about us and our mission
of providing fun, educational , and safe sites for kids to
visit on the World Wide Web, go to:
http://www.4kids.org/congrats. There you will find links to
staff, a map to newspapers that carry our feature, and the
ability to browse our back issues.
Currently, our lead time is 8 weeks prior to publication.
Since one of our goals is to ensure the reliability of the
URLs we publish, can you reply to this message and assure
us that your site will remain at the following URL for the
next three months?
Site name: Why is Mona Lisa Smiling
URL: http://www.thinkquest.org/
Once we have been assured of your site address,
information about your site is scheduled to be released
during the week of 9/13/98. Would you like us to send you
a full size color copy of it when it comes out? Just send
along your snail mail address along with your reply
confirming your site will remain at the above URL.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any
questions. I look forward to hearing from you!
With regards,
Melissa Burgos
www.4kids.org
congrats@4kids.org
(785) 864-0536
P.S. Christy forwarded your message to Frank who later
chose to review your site. Your e-mails have been received
and you no longer need to continue sending them. Thank
you.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 13:56:34 -0700
From: Jennifer Roland
Subject: Cool daVinci site
Cc: jfkhs@ns2.con2.com,
jennifer_jones@CCMAIL.UOREGON.EDU
Reply-to: jroland@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Organization: ISTE
Jen,
Could you post this Web site under the Projects & Curriculum heading of
the Teacher Resources section: /13681.
Thanks,
Jen
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 05:59:04 -0800
From:
info@edbriefs.com (Simpson Communications)
To:
Steve (by way of Wind's Eye Design, Inc)
CC:
carrie@windseye.com
Hi Steve,
We published the following brief in the April 20,1998 issue of both USA
Ed.Net Briefs and Washington Ed.Net Briefs:
DA VINCI WEB SITE CREATED BY U.S., SWEDISH TEENS
Students from Borlange, Sweden and Kennedy High School in The Bronx
collaborated on the creation of this Web site. This site's
interdisciplinary inquiry explores the mystery behind the smile, and
features original Da Vinci music, an interactive quiz, and a dozen Da Vinci
diversions. Inner city multi-ethnic students managed to create this project
in a classroom containing 8088 machines and a single telephone line to the
Internet. The URL is /13681. The Kennedy High
School Web site, which was first placed online last December, has been
selected by the Computer Learning Foundation as the Our Town representative
site for New York State. The URL is
http://www.edu-net.com/~jfkhs.
(Editor's note: I could tell you why the
Mona Lisa is smiling because I visited this great student-created site. The
answer is so amazing that I am not going to put it in this brief. Visit the
site and find out for yourself. It is well worth the time.)
Thanks to Steve for this brief.
Regards,
Steve Simpson
Subject:
Re: Mona Lisa
Date:
Fri, 07 Aug 1998 13:53:23 -0400
From:
Maureen McInerney mmcinern@newsday.com
Organization:
Newsday Inc
To:
Hi Steve,
Congratulations on being selected the Cool Site of the Month for August.
Click on the following link to go to the Cool School Site of the Month Home
Page:
http://www.newsday.com/nie/schools/month.htm
Congratulations again!
Maureen McInerney
Online Education Coordinator
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 16:54:17 +0000
From:
Donald H. Sanders dsanders@learningsites.com
To:
Mr Feld,
Thank you for contacting Learning Sites--
> Thank you for your Learning Sites. It
represents an incredible
contribution to the web.
Thank you; we feel likewise about your
site, its connections, and leads.
> Our site features the work of two
distinguished women Dr. Lillian
Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of
Mystery of the Mona Lisa.
Having a Renaissance art history scholar
on staff made visiting your site an
interesting experience in clashing
ideologies. Traditional art historical
approaches to the Mona Lisa, and other
"portraits" tend to analyze the work
based on information contemporary to the
artwork--prevailing art styles,
technologies of the time, the history of
portraiture, known artistic
methodologies and such.
Sure, Leonardo is a fascinating figure and
the Mona Lisa so well known and
equally widely interpretted that the
combination makes for many theories. We
remain skeptical of the digital comparison
in this case, as it has been shown
that in many instances, portraits will
tend to look like the artist in some
respect.
> As head coach of a ThinkQuest team I
can say that there are many
interactive learning opportunities for
students to discover da Vinci and
listen to his music, create multilingual
musical postcards in one of
sixteen languages, take an online quiz
or create one.
Yes, there is a wonderful breadth of
information and interactive material on
your site--must have been an exciting
collaboration. Any more planned?
> Our site is accessible to the hearing
impaired and is viewable with any
browser....(snip)
A valuable addition to online educational
efforts. The site could lead in any
number of other directions and lends
itself to associations with other period,
technical, or artistic endeavors.
You have also made good use of new Web
technologies, without going wild for
the sake of impressing your younger
visitors.
Thanks for alerting us to this resource.
Donald H. Sanders, Ph.D., President
========***=========***=============
Learning Sites, Inc.
Digitally Reconstructed Ancient Worlds for
Interactive Education and Research
151 Bridges Road
Williamstown MA 01267-2232
phone/fax: 413-458-2828
http://www.learningsites.com
Date:
Fri, 21 Aug 1998 19:06:52 -0400
From:
Elizabeth G. Melillo, Ph.D. emelillo@sprynet.com
Organization:
Gloriana's Court - Web author and designer
To:
Dear Steve,
I was very happy to sign your guestbook, and I am hoping
that my
comments there will be a token of how impressed I was with
your
students, their creativity, and your obvious gifts for
teaching.
It is inspiring to me that you are taking students beyond
the (all too
common) premise that education is merely a means to obtain
credentials.
(I am a doctor of humanities, formerly a musician, and know,
all too
well, how many people think of various creative arts as mere
"hobbies.")
You must have a very special gift!
I am presenting your site with two awards - my own, and that
from the
site my 10-year-old nephew maintains (I designed his site,
but the words
are all his.) Christopher's award is for sites designed by
kids. My own
is given only to sites with a high degree of content.
I must say that the originality of your topic is refreshing!
Your site will be in my award winners' showcase within a day
or so.
Warmest regards to all-
Elizabeth
Elizabeth G. Melillo, Ph.D. - "Gloriana"
gloriana@geocities.com
Gloriana's Court - Internet Design Services
http://www.gloriana.nu - design@gloriana.nu
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." - C.S.
Lewis
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:11:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:Brendan Kehoe brendan@zen.org
To:
Hi Steve! I'll add your mail to my queue of sites to pass
over & add into the pages when I make my next run thru 'em.
Thanks for the
pointer!
By the way, congrats on getting the site going with
computers a little older than most (of your *students*)! You're living proof that
upgrading a computer. isn't necessarily a prerequisite to making good use of it.
:-)B Zen Org
Here is some of the email we have received about our project.