........from companies and organisations that support InterLink!!!
Ewen Holstein, President NZATE :), New Zealand
The New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, Te Pouhere
Whakaako Reo Pakeha o Aotearoa, sends its greetings to all participants
in the InterLink project. Best wishes for an enjoyable and productive
experience. Keen to follow your progress, we are also exploring ways
to contribute further. Watch here for more details in the future.
Kind regards, Lucinda Willebrands, Quantum, Australia
Quantum, ABC's weekly science program sends its greetings to the students
and staff participating in Interlink. We hope the project is going well. We would like to invite you to visit our internet site which has information about our science programs as well as links to other science sites.
Linda Sandstead, Colorado Education Online
Greetings InterLink Students, I am a Computer instructor in Denver,
Colorado. I have students ranging in age from 5 years to 13 years of
age. There are 300 children in our school.
Colorado is a great place to live. We have many out-of-doors sports
that we enjoy because of our climate. Skiing is very popular in the
winter and biking in the summer.
Our schools are getting ready for summer break. Our children will be
on vacation for 10 weeks. We are all very excited about our vacations.
I will be happy to keep in touch with you all summer from my home.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Jeffrey Thomas, Castles of Wales
I would like to send my greetings and congratulations to the students and staff collaborating on the Interlink project. It looks like an exciting initiative. As part of your growing awareness of each other's culture, I would like to invite you to my Castles of Wales site to learn more about Wales and its history. I hope
you enjoy your visit. Wales is a land of incredible beauty,
history, and friendly people, and is one of Britain's best kept
secrets. Why not visit Wales some day. I guarantee it will
be the trip of a lifetime!
Kathy Setchell (Customer Relations) Sainsbury's, Britain
Sainsbury's congratulates the British and New Zealand students on
their work on the on the Interlink project. We are enjoying reading
the results of your efforts.
We wish the best of luck with your project. Warm and friendly wishes from a sunny South Africa.
Jan & Izel Theron
Cape Town, South Africa
We must congratulate you on all the exciting work that you are doing
throught the Internet. We hope that you will make good friends with one
another using the Net. You know friendship is the one important thing that
actually keeps us all going. Here in South Africa we rely on one another's
friendship to keep our country strong. We live in Cape Town, as you know
one of the cities in the running for the 2004 Olympics. We have a beautiful
mountain overlooking Cape Town. It is called Table Mountain. Perhaps you
can try to find photos of it and also the origin of its name.
Melanie Burton, Smith Kline Beecham, Britain
I am particularly glad to offer our full support for this Internet initiative. As one of the world's foremost pharmaceutical companies with worldwide interests, including a manufacturing plant near Auckland in New Zealand, we hope the Passmores pupils visits to our site and their use of digital photography will genuinely communicate the "one world" which we now live in. The best of luck.
Ros Fox, Language Advisor and Senior European Officer, Berkshire County Council, England
I am pleased to send greetings and welcome to the participants of the InterLink project. Good luck in the coming months. We are keen to establish links between schools and much further afield!
Here is a question you might like to investigate:- How are zoos trying to help ensure the survival of animals that are now endangered because of human needs?
Jean Pugh, Education Officer, Wellington Zoo, New Zealand
Kia Ora koutou, the Wellington Zoo would like to send its best wishes to those taking part in the InterLink project. By working together we can make a better world.
Brendan Mosely, New Zealand SunSITE
Best wishes from the New Zealand SunSITE to all InterLink participants. Thanks for your contribution to a project so many will benefit from. Good luck!
Tim Locke, Assistant Editor, 5 Live Breakfast, Britain
It gives me great pleasure to welcome your students to their internet project. We use the Internet a lot on 5 Live Breakfast, with instant feedback from listeners to our email address, we have a range of programme information on the BBC website which is soon to be improved with the appointment of our new website manager. The new BBC news website will be launched later this year. Our journalists also use the Internet as research tool. Good luck online.
Laurence Zwimpfer, Telecom New Zealand
Telecom New Zealand and the Telecom Education Foundation send greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. Congratulations for taking an electronic leap into the global classroom.
Best wishes, Leslie Watkins, Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand
Seriousness is important, particularly in research or studies, but never let it swamp the fun!
Kay Leather, Education Officer, Carter Observatory, New Zealand
The Carter Observatory wishes to send its greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. Good luck with activities, we will check on your progress with interest.
Richard Prior, Electronic Products Developer & Designer, Education & Multimedia Products, Ordnance Survey, Great Britain
Thank you for informing us of the InterLink project which sounds interesting, stimulating and fun. Best wishes for its success from the Education Team at Ordnance Survey, the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain. Please visit our Web site at http://www.ordsvy.gov.uk/ or our pages on the BT CampusWorld educational site at http://www.campus.bt.com/pub/OS/. Best wishes again,
The National Library Gallery is also taking part in this year's Link programme with the exhibition Flowers in a Vase - Paintings by Frances Hodgkins. Works on display include items from the collections of the Turnball Library as well as those of the British Council and the British High Commission. The exhibition takes its name from the title of a major painting on loan from the Commission and will appear at the Gallery in Wellington from 9 March until 1 June.
Kirsten Collins, Communications Adviser Marketing Services, National Library of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand, Te Punga Matauranga O Aotearoa, welcomes you and your school to the InterLink programme and your new learning opportunity. Visit us on http://www.natlib.govt.nz/ - or search our new service http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz, to see pictures of New Zealand as it was. The online images you will see are from the pictorial collections of the Alexander Turnball Library at the National Library. You will be able to order your own copies of these images as well as read information about them.
Vicki Allpress, Marketing Manager, The Royal New Zealand Ballet
The Royal New Zealand Ballet, our national ballet company, wishes you all the best in your InterLink project, as you communicate across the world. Three of our 1997 seasons - La Fille Mal Gardee, Alice and The Nutcracker are being supported by the British Council's Link programme.
We now have over 5,100 schools listed on our pages and welcome over 40 new schools from NEW ZEALAND this month. We hope to link every school in the world with a web site.
Greer Firestone, Keypals International
Keypals International welcomes InterLink and the thousands of students it will begin to bring together from New Zealand and Britain through the infinite potential of the web. We hope to be able to work with you with joint projects.
David Wright, Exscite Science Centre, Hamilton, New Zealand
Everyone at the EXSCITE Science Centre will be following with great interest your InterLink intercontinental adventures. Our best wishes go to all participants - you are leading the way.
Ian Kennedy, Director, National Science - Technology Roadshow Trust, New Zealand
The National Science - Technology Roadshow Trust wishes to send its greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. Good luck and we will follow your progress with interest.
Bob Sims, Educational Industry Enterprise Co-ordinator, Fisher & Paykel Ltd, Range & Dishwasher Division, Mosgiel, Dunedin, New Zealand
Fisher & Paykel as an active industry partner with The Taieri High School trust that as you participate on "The Link" you will find the experience, educating, rewarding and exciting. All the best.
Dr Anne Meade, New Zealand Council for Educational Research
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research congratulates the schools, and all associated with InterLink, for their joint effort to learn and teach using the Internet.
Here are some interesting questions posed by the Peace Foundation that you and your pair school can discuss:-
Marion Hancock, Peace Foundation
Warm greetings to all involved in the InterLink Programme. May the bridges you build between your schools help build bridges of peace around the world.
1. Is peace just the absence of war or is it more than that? If so, what is it?
2. What things do you think currently produce the most conflicts and problems in your school/town/country?
3. What needs to be done about them to restore peace/prevent violence?
Ken Baker, Enterprise New Zealand Trust
Enterprise New Zealand Trust has close links with the participating New Zealand Schools. We also have close links with the British Council, and with Young Enterprise UK. We take this opportunity to wish all those on the InterLink Project the very best of luck.
Peter Bull, UK Design Technology Consultancy
Greetings from the UK Design Technology Consultancy. I wish you success on your launch day.
Peter Millward, Head of Education & Interactive Science, The Science Centre & Manawatu Museum, New Zealand
The Science Centre and Manawatu Museum had 26000 students visit in 1996 doing programmes related to Science and Technology. We'd welcome contact with the InterLink schools both sides of the world.
Shimrath Paul, Director, Otago Museum Alive, New Zealand
Discovery World Otago Museum sends greetings from Dunedin to all the students using InterLink in Britain and New Zealand. Good luck with this exciting and progressive InterLink project. We look forward to seeing excellent results!
Glynn McGregor, National Co-ordinator, TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION NEW ZEALAND
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION NEW ZEALAND is pleased to be associated with the InterLink initiative and we look forward to monitoring and publicising its successes over the year.
Marilyn Davies, Education & Training Adviser, New Zealand Employers Federation
The New Zealand Employers' Federation sends its best wishes to all schools taking part in this exciting new project. We'll follow progress with interest. Have fun!
Christine Coles, CREST NZ
Special greetings to CREST students in the UK from CREST in New Zealand. Enquires about CREST support for science and technology projects to Christine Coles, CREST Awards (Creativity in Science and Technology).
August H. Auer Jr, Chief Meteorologist, MetService, New Zealand
On behalf of all the Staff here at MetService New Zealand, may I take the opportunity to congratulate you on your participation in this InterLink project. What an exciting chance to communicate and learn about ............well, the weather in each country! (What else would you expect a weatherman to say?) But you'll soon learn what an exciting resource it is to communicate via the Internet and how wonderful it is to educate yourselves about the lives, customs, and cultures of two countries about as distant from each other as possible on this planet. Good luck .............and good surfing!
Patrick J. Lynch, Executive Director and staff of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office
Pat Lynch and the New Zealand Catholic Education Office send greetings and good wishes to all those participating in the forward thinking InterLink Project. It is exciting that this linkage had been set up. It will open doors of understanding and friendship and we will watch your progress with interest. Be encouraged!!
Ewan Holstein, President NZATE, New Zealand
The New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, Te Pouhere Whakaako Reo Pakeha O Aotearoa, sends its greetings to all participating in the InterLink project. Best wishes for an enjoyable and productive experience. Keen to follow your progress, we are also exploring ways to contribute further. Watch here for more details in the future.
Sally Aves, Lion Nathan, New Zealand
Hi there! The Lion Nathan Education Partnership would like to congratulate all InterLink participants for exploring technology to form partnerships between such geographically distant places! We hope you share many things and are able to celebrate your similarities and your differences. We'd love to hear what you are up to. Good Luck!
Sean Devine, Association of Crown Research Institutes
The Association of Crown Research Institutes, on behalf of all the New Zealand Crown Research Institutes, wishes to send its greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. Good luck, I am sure you will find the experience gained valuable and also great fun.
P M Hargreaves, Chief Executive, NIWA, New Zealand
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) wishes to send its greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. Good luck and we will follow your progress with interest.
Catherine Gibson, Chief Executive, Ministry of Youth Affairs, New Zealand
The Ministry of Youth Affairs wishes to send its greetings to all young people participating in the InterLink project. We will follow your progress with interest and look forward to communicating with you.
Dr John Martin, Senior Education Officer (Technology) Education Queensland, Australia
Greetings to all the students in New Zealand and Britain taking part in InterLink. I hope that, through these exciting activities, you discover that the only things that separate people are distance and ignorance. If you would like to visit Queensland schools during your activities, we are at http://curriculum.qed.qld.gov.au/schools.htm.
Peter Spratt, Executive Officer - Education, Royal Society of New Zealand
Kia Ora. The Royal Society of New Zealand and the NZ Association of Science educators extends greetings and best wishes to all of you taking part in InterLink.
Children are the guardians of the future, knowledge should neither be inflicted on, nor withheld from them. "felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas"
Gordon Ramel, Gordon's Entomological Home Page, England
Hi, this is hello to all the "InterLink kids" from Britain and NZ. Welcome to the Internet from Gordon at Gordon's Entomological Home Page, the premier entomological site on the web. Britain and NZ have a lot in common, some of these things, like the Web they share with the rest of the world, another less popular bond that we both share with the world at large is a 'true bug' a Hemipteran of the family Pentatomidae. By using the search engine on GEHP and your brains a bit you might just be able to tell me its name, good luck.
Brian Opie, President of the New Zealand Academy for the Humanities
Greetings to participants in this important project, a fine example of the humanities in action. Best wishes.
Sir John Hanson, Director General for The British Council
Britain and New Zealand form two groups of islands as globally distant as possible yet, with the modern wonders of the Internet, young people in those islands can communicate, collaborate, learn and develop alongside each other. The British Council is delighted to be involved with the Schools InterLink Project, and we wish the students and teachers participating an enjoyable and enlightening experience.
David Waterhouse, Director of International Projects for The British Council
Overseeing some 600 partnership events between Britain and across Asia and the Pacific this year, I believe the Schools InterLink Project to be one of the most innovative, technologically-advanced and exciting projects in which students, their teachers, their parents and their community can participate in joining two sides of the world in collaboration. My best wishes to those involved for an enjoyable and successful adventure.
Chris Mitchell, Strategic Development Manager, TradeNZ, New Zealand
This exciting new project will provide you with some wonderful learning opportunities and will undoubtedly lead to some long term friendships that will begin through this exercise. You will see elsewhere that we have a `hot link' for more information, and that you can also access our website, which is constantly updated.
AgResearch, New Zealand
AgResearch sends its greeting to all the students of InterLink. We hope everything goes well for you, and we look forward to hearing about your progress.
Mladen Ivancic, Acting CEO, The New Zealand Film Commission
The New Zealand Film Commission sends its greetings to all students participating in the InterLink project. Good luck. We will follow your progress with interest.
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research - is a crown research institute which focuses on sustainable management of land-based resources for conservation and for primary production. Our motto is : Manaaki Whenua - Manaaki Tangata which means Care for the Land - Care for the People.
Judy Grindell, Manaaki Whenua, Landcare Research, New Zealand
Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research - hopes all students participating in the InterLink project will have many interesting and enjoyable hours comparing environmental situations in New Zealand and Britain.
Shirley Robertson, Wellington Divison of the Cancer Society, New Zealand
Greetings from the Wellington division of the Cancer Society in New Zealand. We're interested in lifestyle issues around the sun, smoking and nutrition. Lets hope InterLink closes the global gap between schools and the likes of us.
Murray Joiner, Education Programmes Manager, Museum of Transport Technology and Social History, New Zealand
Kia ora to those participating in the InterLink project from the team at MOTAT, New Zealand's largest museum of Transport, Technology and Social History. The Bagnall family from England, who built and lived in the 1845 cottage now at MOTAT would never have dreamed that you would be doing what you are today. Can you possibly imagine what youngsters like you will be getting up to in 150 years time?
Jenny Keate, Communications & Information, Creative New Zealand
Greetings InterLinkers, from Creative New Zealand, the Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa. A key area for us is the development of opportunities for young people, so we welcome this exciting project. Good luck!
Frances's web page address http://www.biddeford.com/~fdaley. Teaching lifelong learning through the power of information!
Frances D. Aley, Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538, USA
Greetings from the rockbound coast of Maine and best wishes to all of the
students working together across the oceans! Please come and visit us,
meet our golden Information Resource Retrievers and send us suggestions
for useful links you'd like to see added to our web page so that we can
help you with your research needs. You can find us at
http://www.gwi.net/brhs/. Good luck in your research efforts!
The Hillary Commission in New Zealand is all about sport, and we want to congratulate all the 'good sports' who are involved in this cyber-project. While you're Interlinking, spend some time at our site. It's a way to get to the best sports stuff on the Net, so go for it!
Bye
Carl Steward, Hillary Commission, Wellington, New Zealand
KIA ORA!! HELLO!!
Best wishes from Jeremy Willis, Deputy Managing Director
Congratulations to you from the Newbury Weekly News. The local newspaper in Newbury where Shaw House is located. We are also active on the Internet and you are welcome to take a look at our pages. There you will find details of what is going on in the area.
Peter Gould, Education Liason Officer, Nortel, Harlow, England
The chances are this message will travel along a submarine cable from
Nortel. Nortel of Harlow wish Passmores School every success with its Interlink with Oxford Area School in New Zealand.
Brenda Leeuwenberg - Webgrrls Aotearoa
Kia ora koutou, greetings and best wishes to all Interlink participants
from Webgrrls Aotearoa. We have a firm belief in the power, potential, frivolity and fun of the internet. Perhaps you'd like to think about whether the girls in your school feel differently about computers than the boys - and why this happens and how you can fix it! Have a wonderful Interlink
The Lake District National Park Authority, England
The Lake District is a special place. We are here to look after the National
Park, helping people to enjoy its beauty whilst fostering the well-being of
those who live and work here.
Peter Muller, Manager - Operations, Actrix Networks Limited
Actrix - the InterLink Internet Service Provider - congratulates the Interlink students on their work and looks forward to following their discoveries on the net.
Best wishes
Jerzy Grzeda, Business Manager, The Open University, England
Greetings to all Interlinkers from the Knowledge Media Institute at the
Open University. We feel that new technology has the potential to
revolutionize the way we live, work and learn. Take a look at our Web site to see how!
Lesley Hooper and Sarah Hone, Education Services, Statistics New Zealand
Statistics New Zealand wishes to send its greetings to all those participating in the InterLink project. We are looking forward to working with you all this year. Good luck.
Ruth Purnell LEGO Dacta New Zealand
LEGO Dacta would like to wish all those schools taking part in the IntterLink project the very best. Have fun and we will look forward to following your progress.
