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Project HappyChild NEWS 1st April 2000 [for ongoing updates, see Latest Site News] |
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| Welcome to the April 2000 issue of Project HappyChild News. Despite intermittent access problems due to our ISP Force 9 being "packet bombed" (some form of internet sabotage apparently affecting other servers also), site visits exceeded 80,000 this month. |
| EVENTS Vinny Lauwers continues to progress through the Atlantic, and is currently somewhere due east of Uruguay - you can access updates on his trip via our FOCUS page. Vinny is an Ambassador for the first ever National Youth Week in Australia, scheduled for 2nd-8th April (see General Events). New additions to General Events this month include "The Battle of the Soaps", a celebrity football event being organised by Children in Crisis and scheduled to be held at Villa Park (Birmingham, UK) in September; also a number of golf and cycling events over the year, arranged by Norwood Ravenswood, whose "Walk the West Highland Way" (Fortwilliam to Glasgow) has been added to our Sponsored Events page. The Millennium Balloon launch from Quesnel, B.C., Canada, has been endlessly re-scheduled due to jetstream problems - now due to be launched on 1st April, see FOCUS for ongoing updates. The CSUN International Conference on Technology & Disabilities (Los
Angeles, 20-25 March) went off extremely well - Mike Andrews sent a
report afterwards "There were people there from all over the world - Sweden,
Norway, Guam, the UK, Japan, Mexico ... and of course people from all over the US....
You should have been there when this one little girl who has severe Cerebral Palsy came to
our booth in a wheelchair pushed by her parents. She is maybe 12 years old. She had
three switches mounted on her wheelchair in a semi-circle behind her head. I simply
plugged her switches directly to our Team Xtreme interface for Super Nintendo®, and
set-up her left switch for Left-key momentary, right switch for Right-key momentary,
and her center switch for B-key repeat. The "B-key repeat" let her simply touch and hold
the center switch with her head, telling Team Xtreme to "repeatedly press and release"
the B-key for her, making the monkey swim up. Just pressing and holding the B-key in
Donkey Kong(r) makes him bounce up, but sink back down, so you have to repeatedly press
and release the B-key to continue to go up. Anyway ... she played for less than a minute,
figured the whole thing out, then just took off ! She was swimming around in the caves,
going in and out of the tunnels, roving all over the place. To go down, all she had to do
was take her head off the center switch, still playing the left and right switches. It was
GREAT! Her parents were amazed. She was doing better than I do ... With just her 3
head switches, she was able to play that part of the game without any assistance from a
Teammate. This is what it's all about ... enabling people to be successful, to grow, and to
better enjoy life." |
| GUESTBOOK New items added to the Guestbook this month include an appeal for help from UMID (hope) for setting up a charitable hospital in Azerbaijan, an e-mail from a family in Scotland planning to move to Romania to work with street children, and one from Framwellgate School, Durham whose teachers and pupils plan to spend time this summer on improving the learning environment at a Kenyan public school for the deaf. More details of the latter on our Resources Required page. |
| SCHOOLS INTERCHANGE A new resource for Schools and Universities in Spain has been added to Schools Interchange, along with a link to the East Riding of Yorkshire Intranet for Learning (see Schools England A-M index), with modifications to the entries for Schools in Sweden and in Gwynedd (Schools Wales). Due to the ever-growing resources of Schools Interchange [and the increasing number of pages across the Project HappyChild website as a whole] we would welcome help from our visitors in checking out-links across the site, to keep all areas fully active. In this respect we'd like to thank Tong Ming Hei and Wong Tsz Shing at Wah Yan College, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China, for "adopting" the main UK Schools index page - we're awaiting notification of the names of other students from this college who have volunteered to help with maintenance of specific UK areas. If any of our visitors would like to monitor one of the international Schools pages on this site - checking it each month to ensure all links remain active - please let us know :) |
| EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES The index to Free Educational Resources worldwide has been updated during March - there have been significant changes to both Transportation (Airports, Airlines, Road, Sea etc.) and to the WWWVL Sports areas (eg Premiership Clubs, football) - if you have a cached or printed-out copy of the Index, you may wish to update this. Free download software for worksheets and tests on "the four rules", for use with Excel 97, has been added to our Maths Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 resource pages. A licensed copy (not boxed) of Britannica Multi-Media 99 is available for a limited period at only Ł9.99 through the Project HappyChild Shop. |
| HELP FOR CHILDREN Several entries in the Project HappyChild Directory have been updated this month, including the Bobath Centre for Children with Cerebral Palsy, the Children's Society and the Sick Children's Trust. Three new items have been added to the Syndromes Links index - (1) Camping for active children with special needs - severe learning difficulties or physical disabilities - available through Forest School Camps, an educational charity [see under "Special Needs"], (2) links to international Toy Libraries and (3) a link to the archive of talking Linux software for the Blind. Balkan Sunflowers, the extraordinary volunteer network helping people in the Balkan countries of Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia to rebuild their lives, has been added to Appeals and Projects worldwide. We have also included a link to the comprehensive list of items required by Balkan Sunflowers from our Resources Required page. |
| ACCELERATED LEARNING Michael Tipper's April articles on Accelerated Learning will be on line shortly - we're having the usual problems with IE5 overwriting page source code when saved directly from the Internet, so having to send zipped files backwards and forwards through the mail system. There will be one more set of articles before the annual two-month break in the series - we're hoping to progress further during that period with designing mind-maps for the whole Accelerated Learning area, to interlink both with the articles already on line and the Frequently-Asked Questions pages. In which respect my thanks to Nick Duffill of M-URGE for the recent gift of Mind Manager software (see our Sponsors page) - simple lack of time has prevented me testing this out so far, but Michael's Life Skills website has been built with Mind Manager software (free trial downloads available) and he's written a guide to using it which is in the free-to-print "Build Your Own Website" area of Project HappyChild. |
| SITE UPGRADES Most of our visitors will have seen our re-designed "Welcome page", incorporating links to many of the primary areas of the site, for ease of navigation. The new design should be accessible to all browsers, allowing us to merge the "shadow" area of the site [previously monochrome for the benefit of lower-grade browsers] with the main site pages. We've also interlinked the header graphics across the vast majority of pages, to allow visitors easily to travel from one area to another, and this has been reflected in the steadily-increasing flow of traffic. An index has been constructed for the archive to Year 2000 Newsletters - you'll find the relevant graphic further down this page - to tie everything together and provide a relatively-continuous "history" for the website as a whole. |
| And finally ..... my thanks to everyone who's added links to Project
HappyChild, and made it possible for so many people to access this site.
Links recently discovered include RollerCoaster and IOL in Ireland, NZCal
(New Zealand), Web Wombat USA, Unschooling Resources Australia, Petite
Net, the "cool" top 1% at BestMillion Australia, Kyle's page, Bexley Council
(England), AltaVista Sweden, Catchca Singapore and Malaysia, Forest School
Camps UK, MacUsers Nashville USA, InfoNet Romania, the Human Rights
Library at the University of Minnesota, and the Malaysian Government.
All help in publicising Project HappyChild is immensely valued.
Penny. ****************************************************************** |
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