Below is a post I wrote last month for the seniors in the Year IV students’ blog for Internet Education Class:

Our dear Y4s,

It’s been four months since we first embarked on this experiment called Internet Education. With you guys, Teacher Connie and I have been exploring ways not just to to help you become better at surfing, but to share with you the nearly limitless possibilities of transforming your internet skills and forays into a humanizing experience.

The idea of an elective in internet education and law, sparked by T. Emma’s invitation for us to teach, was something entirely new for the school. We knew we couldn’t resist the challenge. Soon enough, we realized that our class (like our HEdCen.com site) meant offering ourselves up, this time together with a dozen unsuspecting Y4s, as volunteer test subjects. Thus, we’ve been meeting twice a week in the new computer lab, glorified guinea pigs trying to make sense of the maze of cyberspace.

From our feedback session last Wednesday, it looks like Teacher Connie and I have a bunch of truly appreciative guinea pigs! As I was listening to your comments about what you enjoyed as well as disliked about our course, it struck me that we’ve got something worthwhile going on here. And to hear that you wanted to meet more often and have longer (but earlier) class sessions warmed my heart, even though I wasn’t sure if you guys weren’t just sucking up to the teach.

Keep up the good work peeps! We’re creating a legacy here for future batches.

Sincerely yours,

T. Eric

Posted in: Props, Exit Stage Write | | October 2007