Friday, November 12, 2004
From: "Judy Panucci" judyp at tpg.com.au
To: craig.bellamy at milkbar.com.au
Subject: Comment from milkbar.com.au
Dear Craig
I'm a high school English teacher from country NSW who happened upon your site in .3 of a second via Google Aust. after typing in "globalization+culture". I can't believe my luck! I have a Year 12 Extension English class doing a module called "Ways of Thinking: Retreat From the Global". We have to analyse 3 core texts - Sitch's movie The Castle, E. A. Proulx's novel The Shipping News and seven of Seamus Heaney's poems. We have to then find interesting and diverse texts which in some way address attitudes to the global and link these to discussions of the core texts. As well, students have to be able to write creatively about the concepts. It's an interestingg module and milkbar has been invaluable as an absorbing and objective site which is very user friendly for both me and my students.
If you are at all interested in what we are doing or if you have any suggestions for material which may be of interest to adolescents and which could help them in their independent research we'd love to hear from you. Thanks again.I have spent many hours on your site and find it almost addictive. Some of my students discuss it on chat lines! We are perhaps an unexpected audience.
Milkkbar is an impressive achievement and one that to me makes sense of Castell's statement about the not good/ not bad/ not neutral nature of technology and globalization.
Thanks again
Judy Panucci
posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, November 12, 2004
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