Books donation for a primary school in South Africa plus an opportunity to collaborate…

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWwzpLDJ7DpjNnS9ZF9u6PYK8m4HHRTLHCu3huZ6IcmzGBfBv3Zj4scJlfV0oEA80T6HsVAl17Pl-id4Pobp1nEhsvNEvlOFTLq5mUp6IcAO96baTVKzcGMDNukPZ8vXe996A7H71uS_8/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiidz49pvDmjB-foeANQXHLLIn61KOoV5DCLSBpx3zSGn78VHtSMkgzWSBeOKg2cPqAFll1vnrwU0r-63JpDnggUU0tGGcUzSxI-z2hYvhfJ_eVnIz7uoVDquihyq3DaGN7hyphenhyphenRENw2V6JY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-color: -moz-use-text-color; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently we had a very interesting email from a teacher in Seattle who is a librarian at her school. She would like to donate some books to a school in South Africa and also set up a Skype collaboration with a teacher at this school. Here is an extract from the email… </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“We have 5-6 boxes of brand new paperback picture and chapter books sitting in our school that are not being used. I have a dream of putting them in the hands of an impoverished school where need a library or need books. I’d love to hook up with a school and begin a Skype collaboration if possible. We could make videos of the books or introduce ourselves with our school. Somehow I’d like to bring technology, books, global collaboration together in a project that helps children who need the help.</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stereotype of country African schools are ones of extreme need. I don’t really know if this is true or not. People think we all drive expensive cars and have all things perfect here in the States. Neither myths are true!</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have seen websites of helping African villages with books, but I am very wary of them due to the administrative costs, etc. I’m more interested in doing something small, but that has real impact. Is there a place for this kind of idea? Do you know people I could contact to start? Is this something you might be interested in?” </span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you know of a school where this would go down well, please contact <a href="mailto:fiona@schoolnet.org.za">fiona@schoolnet.org.za</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you would like to read this teacher's blog, here is the URL: <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://bellbulldogreaders.edublogs.org/" style="color: #0077cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: nowrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" target="_blank">http://bellbulldogreaders.edublogs.org/</a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  This blog came second in the 2011 Edublogs Awards. </span></span> </div>

Collaboration Books donation for a primary school in South Africa plus an opportunity to collaborate…

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