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Odelia Saidov.

Module 1 - Introductions

Franciscos' Introduction:

Posted by: francisco salcido (salc2505@badger.snow.edu )
College or School:snow college
Date posted: Fri Oct 3 22:48:37 1997
Subject: frank's introduction

Message:
Hi my name is Francisco Vanegas Salcido, I'm a person that likes to meet new people and make a lot of friends, right now I
just get out of highschool and I came to snow college to study english and to try to get in an american university, I would like to study international business or if I can't maybe something like that. I'm from Mexico but not the city of Mexico but from the north part, so I'm very close to the border with the united states, I live in Sonora is a state of Mexico, in a litle town call Caborca, the weather down there is very hot in the summer because is a desert and in winter is very cool. In my family were six people, this is my mom, my dad, me, my brother, and two younger sisters; what I like to do in my free time is practice sports, I like baseball, football, soccer and basketball, and I also like to read.

Odelias' Introduction:

Posted by: Odelia Saidov (Odelia@mofet. macam98. ac.il )
College or School:Talpiot College
Date posted: Sun Sep 14 19:44:09 1997
Subject: Introduction

Message:
My name is Odelia Saidov. I am a very responsible and serious person. I always hand in everything on time! I am learning in a teachers trainers college in Israel. I specialize in English. I live in Petach Tikva.It is located in the center of the country.This is a beautiful city to visit.We are four people in the family. My father is a T.V fixer and my mother is a nurse in Hasharon hospital. I have only one sister.Her name is Liora. In my free time I like watching T.V and to sleep.

Odelia gave Frank an exercise in scanning using the material from the introductions

Dear Frank!
As a teacher, I want to teach you one reading skill which is scanning.
In order to do it, you just have to find a specific information.
Here is the excercise which I prepered for you:
1. Look only on the pupils from Talpiot
2. Who loves reading books?
3. Do not read the whole introductions, just look for the words: reading
and books in the last sentences of each introduction.
Tell me please how much time did it take you to do it and if my
instructions were clear.
Take care
Odelia

Module 2 - Surfing the Net and writing poems

Franciscos'

Posted by: Francisco Salcido (salc2505@badger.snow.edu )
College oe School:Snow College
Date posted: Sun Oct 26 17:07:11 1997
Subject: Surfing the internet
Message:

Hi! group 1 I'm Frank just wnted to tell you hwo much

fun I had surfing in the internet, I have been in
Disneyland but not in the Universal studios they are so
amaizing, I hope to go there some day.

well that's all folks

bye.

Here is Odelias' reaction to surfing the net:

Surfing in the internet was fun for me too.I agree with
your opinion. I like to listen to the CNN than reading it
from the computer because as you said it is quicker for me
to listen than to read.I liked the places in Utah and I
like the place.

Here is Frank's poem about Odelia - we had to write a lot of letters to eachother to get the information.
Odelia
a pretty lady with brown eyes and long black hair
she loves rommantic books in English and also to swim a lot
who is affraid of earthquakes and the unknown
who will like to visit Paris and America
she's resident at this moment of
Petach Tikva, Israel
Saidov.

I hope you like, and thaks for my poem, it was really nice.

Francisco Salcido.

Dear Frank!
I loved your poem about me, however, there are a few changes I would
like you to do.
First, I am a pretty young girl who loves romantic books. I am afraid of
earthquakes. I would like to visit Paris...
Take care
Odelia

here is Odelia's poem about Frank
Francisco
tall, tan skin with dark brown eyes.
who loves slow music, horror movies and baseball.
who is afraid of dark places, the unknown and getting lonely.
who wants to see Australia
resident of this moment
H.Caborca
Vanegas Salcido

Module 3 - Search Engines

Francisco

04/12/97

Hi Odelia!

I sending you this letter so you can know about the topic that I choose.
Here are some links where you can go... sorry my topic is music.

1.- www.expressmusic.com.mx... here you'll find all kinds of music, artist and records. Good for finding mexican music.
2.- www.musicblvd.com/.. is almost like the one before, but this one has more things to look at.
3.- www.ear1.com/... another link of place where you can find all kind of music.

I liked all this links because I found a lot of albums from artist that I like. But now here are two links about music groups that I like...

4.- www.bandaelrecodo.com.mx/... this is one of the best groups from Mexico, we call this kind of music "banda" most of it is just instrumental.
5.- mana.com.mx... this one is a pop group that is becoming one of the biggest ones in Mexico, really nice music.

Here are some links Odelia think are great: her topic is a Jewish festival Hanukah
number 1
http://www.holidays.net/chanukah/story.html
Summary
I liked this site because it tells the Hannuka story. If someone doesn't
know what Hannuka is, he can read it and know the reason for our
celebration.

number 2
http://www.worldvillage.com/kidz/bilybear/hanaka/dreidel.htm
summary
In this site you can learn about the Dreidle Game. I liked the dreidel
sample which turns aroud all the time.

number 3
http://www.jewishfamily.com/scripts/NewJfl/paper/Article.asp?ArticleID=578
summary
In this site, you'll find a letter from a woman who wants to know how to
make the transition from a secular Chrismas to a spiritual Hanukkah.
There is the answer of Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson. There is also a
picture of the Rabbi.

number 4
http://www.his.com/~chabad/8days/
summary
There are pictures of children and driedles.
You can find information about:
How to celebrate Chanukah
The explanation of the brahot that we say when we light the candles.
The heroines of Chanukkah
Miracles of today.
I liked the structure of this site. Everything is clearly explained.

number 5
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/festivls/hanuka/h4.html
Summary
In this site you'll find games, reading and drama activities about
Hanukkah. I like this site because it's exactly what I need as a
teacher!

Here are some links we both think you should check out:
I hope you like them, and I was wondering if you like the topic about food; if you do here I send to you two links about mexican food, and I was wondering if you could send the other three links about your kind of food...

4.- www.mexconnect.com/.. you'll find everything about the mexican kitchen.
5.- www.mexconnect.com/poultry... you'll find everything about mexican poultry dinners.

By the way I'll be living tomorrow moring 05/12/97 so, I'm not going to be here to get your answer back; I'll be back until 04/01/98.
Weel hope to hear about you soon... take care.

Francisco Salcido
Snow College.
Yes, it is me again!
   First of all, I must tell you that I enjoy working with you because
you mail everything on time. I'm sorry that lately I didn't reply to
your letters. It happened because I didn't have time during the internet
lesson and I also don't have enough time during the week. However, I
loved your Hanuka card. Thanks a lot!
    I found some lovely sites about kosher Israeli's recipes:
1.http://www.jcn18.com/holiday/hanukkah/recipe.htm
In this site you know how to prepare a delicious latkes (a potato
pancakes)for Hanukkah. There are also two suggestions to make your
cooking easier.
Do not forget sending me one latke.
2. gopher://ftp.std.com:70/00/obi/bo...es/chanukah.doughnuts._sufganiot
In this site you find a recipe for doughnuts. You have the ingredients
and how to serve it. It's a shame that there isn't a picture of a
doughnut.
3. http://www.epicurious.com/db/recipes/recipeH/0/40020.html
Here you can find a recipe of a honey cake for Rosh Hashana (new year
cake). You have a personal story about this recipe. Afterwards, you have
the ingredients, filling and the instructions. It's a very tasty cake.
I hope it will help us
                                 Take care
                                 Odelia

Module 4 - Newspaper Assignment

http://www.guadalajara-reporter.com/html/cultural.htm#5

Francisco Article Summary:

01-12-97

Well what do you know it's me again...

Here is the answer to the sumarize article. I hope I can write down 200 words... here it goes...

Yeah the article is right we do have two different kinds of weddings. The civil one: this one is, so that the society of our town knows that you are married and the one for the church is because, we are most catholics in Mexico so in our belives e have ot get married by God.
Well as you find out we have the civil one first because is a small one and usually only your relatives wiil go there. Then the big one, the one by the church; here usually the bride wears a long, pretty, white dress as a sign of a good life li ng before her marriage, and the growm usually wears a black smoking.
After the religious ceremony we usually go to a casino to have the reception there. There you can dance with the bride and growm but you need to stick money to their clothes in order to dance with them. After that you can dance until 4:00 a.m. the morning very often.
But like you find out too, we also have parties for the bride to be and for the growm to be before the wedding. Usually the bachelors party is kind os strange because your frinds will try to make you do some wird things. This kind of thing don' happen in the brides party; well not all the time like in the bachelors, but sometimes they do.
I think that this kind of things are amizing, I love to go to the weddings.
I would like very much if you could send me a description of how are your weddings in Israel.
Well hope that is enough... take care.

Francisco Salcido.
Snow College.

Francisco sent Odelia an article from USA today

Odelia Summary:

Hi Frank
Como estas?, I didn't tell you, but I know a little spanish from the
espaniol telenobelas ceyo beo aci in Israel! (I hope I wrote it
correctly, if not, I hope you understood what I meant).
Now to the serious bussiness...
I loved reading the article that you sent me. This is my summary,I hope
you'll enjoy it. Please write me back of what you thinking about it.
This article describes thanksgiving break from different points of
view, the students who come back home and those who aren't and the
childrens' point of view.
What is thanksgiving? According to Webster's dictionary thanksgiving is
an "expression of thanks to God" and Thanksgiving is a "U.S holiday".For
children, Thankgiving is an event where balloons float and they sing
traditional songs. For students, Thanksgiving is a break from studies
and also an opportunity to visit their families, because "there's no
place like home for the holidays". However, there are students who
remainin the campus because they live very far away from home. So, they
celebrate it with a turkey sandwich, a bag of chips and a cup of
cranrberry sauce.

I hope you liked it.

Thanks your dearest
internet teacher!:)

The newspaper Odelia wrote can be found here:
here newspaper assignment was:
Dear Frank!
In module four, I need to prepare a lesson. Please, answer this question
by the use of the nespaper.
Go to the "world" section. There you have two newpapers, CNN and ABC
news.Write the headlines in this table:
CNN                |     ABC
                     |
                     |
                     |
                     |
                     |
Which stories are the same?
__________________________________________________________
Which stories are different?
___________________________________________________________
Which stories do you have only in CNN?
____________________________________________________________.
                                                     Take Care
                                                     Odelia

Module 5 - Listservs

In this module we subscribed to listservs and joined the discussions.

Here are the listservs Francisco joined:
Put in your listsevs

Here are the listservs that Odelia joined:

the/English teachers Network Israel

Module 6 - Communicating via MOOs

In this module we chatted in real time on a Moo

here are some extracts from our meeting!

Francisco [Guest] [to odelia [Guest]]: Como estas? hey can you teach me some

odelia [Guest] says, "Yes, Shalom is hi oe peace"

odelia [Guest] says, "or peace"

Francisco [Guest] [to odelia [Guest]]: then Shalom Odelia, lets eat something

odelia [Guest] exclaims, "Yes!!!!"
Francisco [Guest] [to odelia [Guest]]: by the way, talking about something

Francisco [Guest] [to odelia [Guest]]: do you know hot to order?

odelia [Guest] asks, "Frank, I have to ask you: did you read your assaiments

Francisco [Guest] [to odelia [Guest]]: yes and I have to send you the answer

Francisco [Guest] [to Oialai [Guest]]: Well I'll be honest I like to talk with

Odelaiai [Guest] says, "Ye I know, but I have bad news: We have to finish in five