Ashfaq Ishaq wrote:
Dear Mr. Steve Feld:
Greetings! A new year is ideal time to think of new ways to benefit
the children of the world.
It is my great pleasure and honor to invite you to join the
International Advisory Board of the International Child Art Foundation
(ICAF) responsible for overseeing the development of a Virtual
Creativity Playground (VCP) for children.
A Washington, DC based nonprofit, ICAF's vision is to bring about a
"ChildArt & Creativity Revolution" that will have a significant local,
national and global impact on education and children's contribution.
Already a world leader in children's art and creativity programs,
exhibitions and festivals, ICAF publishes the "ChildArt" magazine and
operates the ChildArt Gallery in DC. More than one million children in
86 countries participated in our last global art creation program.
Children and representatives from 50 countries participated in our
last children's festival on the National Mall and our first
International Summit on Children's Creativity. We have partnerships
in over 70 countries with ministries of education and culture,
national museums and arts organizations, and several First Ladies and
U.S. Governors serve on our ChildArt & Creativity Board.
The VCP - a digital playground for children - will broaden the
Internet benefits from the present "information and education" stage
to the expected "creativity and production" stage for children.
The Advisory Board Members will have the opportunity to contribute
their own ideas for the VCP and approve other ideas. Board Members
are expected to devote only 2 to 3 days (even on weekends) to the VCP
during the entire year 2001. Board Members will also participate in
ICAF's second "International Summit on Children's Creativity" which
will be held in June/July 2002 during our International ChildArt &
Creativity Festival. The summit is being co-organized with the Center
of Studies in Creativity, Buffalo, New York.
I look forward to your response and would be delighted to send you
further information on ICAF and the VCP.
May 2001 be the best year ever for you and your family.
Sincerely,
Ashfaq Ishaq, PhD, FRSA
Executive Director
International Child Art Foundation
1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 530-1000
(202) 530-1080 fax
www.icaf.org
Invitation from ICAF
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 16:44:01 -0500
From: Ashfaq Ishaq" ishaq@icaf.org
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve-
I learned about your work from the upcoming Museums and the Web 2001
conference. I am fascinated by your experience as teenage animator and your
current work as a computer graphics leader. Congratulations on leading your
students to win the NY State Learning Technology Grand Championship three
times.
I strongly believe that the Virtual Creativity Playground (VCP) needs the
guidance and support of creative professionals. I know a little bit about
Thinkquest and am happy to note your involvement in one of their projects.
Incidentally, the upcoming issue of our ChildArt magazine, which focuses on
one theme per issue, will be on "Art & Technology." I don't know if we
still need any articles, or whether you would be interested in writing for
ChildArt, still I am attaching a "petition" and can confirm where we are
with the magazine on Tuesday. I am also attaching my own bio for you.
Meanwhile, best wishes for a very happy new year.
ashfaq
Mona Makes Art & Learning Happen
Subject: Learning about Leonardo website and Espresso for schools
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 10:14:36 -0000
From: Mandie Dickinson MDickinson@espresso.co.uk
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve Feld,
Thank you for the email introducing your site:
/13681/data/davin2.shtml
We think it is an excellent site and would very much like to include it in
our 'best of the web' broadband service for schools. Could you please sign
and return, via fax or post, the attached word document so we have a paper
copy of your permission. Also attached is our 'best of the web' award,
please feel free to include it on your site and link to www.espresso.co.uk
Many thanks, I look forward to hearing from you soon.
All good wishes
Mandie Dickinson
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Espresso Productions Ltd.
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith
London W6 9RL UK
Tel +44 (0) 20 8237 1228 Fax +44 (0) 20 8237 1201
First in broadband for schools - http://www.espresso.co.uk
Free on-line demo - email info@espresso.co.uk
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:06:05 -0600
From: Alice Kamps AliceK@ChiChildrensMuseum.org
To: sjfeld@erols.com sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve:
What an impressive achievement! I will present your sites to
our team to be considered as a link. Thank you for your interest in
Artdiscovery.org.
Alice Kamps Curtin
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:30:55 -0800
From: YTGeneral ytgeneral@youthtech.com
To: sjfeld@erols.com
We would be happy to include your sites in our web picks area, and in fact
have already done so. You can see your sites listed at
http://www.youthtech.com/web-picks/index.htm
I think what you are doing is a wonderful opportunity for you students and
commend you on your creativity.
BeckyYT
Youth Tech
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 17:04:54 -0500
From: Eric Cohen Eric@Funderstanding.com
Organization: Funderstanding
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Thanks for the note Steve. Seems like a great project. We are redesigning
our site now to reflect some changes we are making to the business. We'll go
through the links below in detail during that process. Great work and thanks
for letting us know!
Eric Cohen
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 00:06:59 PST
From: marc@bluegrass.net
To: sjfeld@erols.com
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To Steve
You're really getting up there!
Have a great birthday!
Love, Marc and Carol
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Creative Art Projects
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:00:39 EST
From: MrsSpyboy@aol.com
To: sjfeld@erols.com
check out your link here
http://members.aol.com/mrsspyboy/links.htm
God bless,
Debbie Parker
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Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:50:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Susan Maskin maskin@martnet.com
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve:
Thank you for sending this newsletter. this is a really excellent idea.
It sounds as though you never run out of good ideas in connection with
your website--I wish my computer could hear music, but even without that,
I always enjoyed the many links and creative ideas that you have posted.
Keep up this really fine work. (Do you have any collaborations with the
Louvre and the Metropolitcan Museum of Art?) Since your website is
accessible all over the world, it would be good to outreach everywhere
there is an interest in art.
Best of luck.
Susan Maskin
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:01:03 -0500
From: Mark L. Gura Mark_L._Gura@fc1.nycenet.edu
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Dear Steve: Congrats on all of this... keep up the great work!
Dear Mark:
Thank you for your encouragement and continued support.
Next Wednesday CNN will be filming my class as they receive a phone
call from the South Pole. It will be covered Live by Satellite!
Warmest regards,
Steve Feld
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:09:14 -0500
From: Mark L. Gura Mark_L._Gura@fc1.nycenet.edu
To: sjfeld@erols.com
I'll be sure to watch... can you get me the exact time... I'll give the
Chancellor a heads-up too!
Dear Mark:
Thanks for your interest and for sharing our media event with the
Chancellor. Here is the page we created for the project.
/13681/data/links/anartica.htm
Ann and Liv will be calling our school at 1:30, but the CNN crew
will also be profiling my students at 10 A.M.
Thanks again!
Steve
Subject: Ann/Liv call
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:57:36 -0500
From: Liz liz@habermaninc.com
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Steve, I'm terribly sorry I've been out of touch. If you've been following
the expedition as closely as you normally do, you know that this is a very
important stretch of time. Ann and Liv are scheduled to reach the Pole
today (within hours, actually).
Due to this development, Ann and Liv wouldn't be able to make the call to
your classroom on Wednesday. I'm EXTREMELY sorry about this continued
delay. Please bear with us (Ann, Liv, me + our expedition team) and CNN. We
are all committed to making this happen, but are obviously having a problem
nailing a date that will work until after the South Pole.
Please confirm you've received this, and let me know whether you're able to
take a call next week.
Thank you for understanding and being patient. This will work!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 05:24:15 -0500
From: Korki Whitaker korki@earthlink.net
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Good morning!
Just a quick note to let you know that your card site is being featured
in this week's edition of the Virtual Postcard Exchange. If you have any
questions or comments about either the link or the site, please write.
I have included a GIF that you may use on your site to announce that
your site has been featured at the VPE. If you choose to use the GIF,
please link back to the URL listed below.
Thanks for a really great card site!
Korki Whitaker
Visit the Virtual Postcard Exchange at
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/9438/
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:21:13 -0500
From: Doug Peterson Doug_Peterson@gecdsb.on.ca
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Thanks for dropping by the site, Steve. I have featured your new works in my January newsletter.
I appreciate knowing when it was updated. Your sites are terrific.
...Doug
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Doug Peterson
Computers in the Classroom Consultant
Greater Essex County District School Board
http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/
519-255-3354
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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 17:53:43 -0500
From: Ann Thompson apthomps@unity.ncsu.edu
To: sjfeld@erols.com
Congratulations!
Your web site has been selected for MidLink Magazine's Web Honor Roll
www.ncsu.edu/ligon/web.sites.html .
MidLink Magazine is a nonprofit web site created by students, for students. We are
the oldest nonprofit student 'Zine on the web and have won numerous awards
for excellent content and service
to the educational community. From literally thousands of web pages, our
committee selects only the best. We feel your site sets a good example for other
educational sites and will be most useful to the thousands of teachers and students
who read MidLink Magazine each day.
We invite you to display this award on your web page. You may also include a link
back to MidLink Magazine, but you are not required to do so.
On behalf of our sponsors, SAS inSchool http://www.SASinSchool.com/ (tm),
North Carolina State University http://www.ncsu.edu/cep/ , and the University
of Central Florida http://www.cs.ucf.edu/, we want to thank you for maintaining
an exemplary web site and making the web a better place for students and teachers
to learn!
Best regards,
Ann Thompson , Editor, MidLink Magazine
Educator-on-Loan, NC Department of Public Instruction
Caroline McCullen , Editor, MidLink Magazine
Instructional Technologist, SAS inSchool
National Technology Teacher of the Year '96
Subject: Re: the Bancroft-Arnesen Expedition
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:31:35 -0800
From: sjfeld@erols.com
To: "Priscilla Nemeth, Editorial" pnemeth@aft.org
Priscilla Nemeth, Editorial wrote:
Steve, are you the teacher of the computer graphics class at Kennedy H.S.
that's involved with the Bancroft-Arnesen Expedition? I'm a reporter with
American Teacher newspaper and doing a piece on the expedition. I'm looking
for AFT teacher-members who are using this remarkable trip as basis for some
aspect of their educational/classroom activities. Are you a member? Would
you mind making a statement about how your class is using this expedition?
[In what way is your class trying to emulate Ann's and Liv's journals and
comparing them to Leonardo DaVinci's?] Just something brief would be
terrific. If you'd rather talk it, I can be reached at 202/393-5661... on
Friday, Jan. 26. But if you can e-mail it, that would be terrific, too.
Thanks so much for your cooperation.
Priscilla Nemeth
Assistant Editor
American Teacher
Dear Prisilla:
Yes, I am indeed the computer graphics teacher at John Kennedy High
School in the Bronx who is involved with the Bancroft-Arnesen
Expedition.
I am also a member of the AFT through the NYC/UFT and receive American
Teacher regularly.
My classes have been tracking Ann and Liv's journey and reading their
journals.
Initially they compared and contrasted the style and format of these
21st Century womens' journals to those of Leonardo, the 16th Century
futurist and explorer, but as they continued to follow online, they
integrated 21st Century perspectives, computer graphics and online
communication capacities by: posing their own questions for the
explorers, inspired by their own perspectives; and creating digital
artwork prompted by the journals.
Since my students are involved with their ongoing ThinkQuest web site,
Learning About Leonardo, they quickly placed these questions on a page:
Our Artic Exploration Arts Goals and Dreams - An Antartica Expedition
Connection. /13681/data/links/anartica.htm
They have further designed a Powerpoint presentation of their Antartica
visions.
We are presently awaiting a phone call from the explorers to our
classroom, which will be covered through a live satellite broadcast by
CNN.
The students' fascination with this authentic proactive adventure and
scientific expediton, has validated and enhanced their attainment of
high standards - New Performance Language Arts Standards, and N.Y. State
Science and Technology Standards.
For further information please do not hesitate to contact me.
Warmest regards,
Steve Feld
Learning About Leonardo
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