Functions

1. Invite teachers using their language to participate in Who-Am-I?

   Hint: Use the KidCom "Anyone Here?" in your Who-am-I? room to track visitors. KidMail a simple yet personal note to each newcomer.

2. Introduce Who-Am-I? program's activities in the room for teachers in your language. If you have a calendar page in your language, like the English calendar page, add the announcement there. Also, consider including the announcement in the "trains" (moving or still) at your portal for teachers and kids..
3. Coordinate the Who-Am-I?  time schedule and teachers' overall work.
   Note: Each week, students are challenged to think about various subjects. It is not necessary for everyone to answer all the suggested discussion questions. We have given teachers many options from which they can choose according to the age of their students.
4. Help teachers get to know each other, avoid misunderstandings, show how to use the program within their curriculums, and help them in general.
5. Promote exchanges between students across language barriers.
6. Regular progress reports to your colleagues to help us exchange experiences between language areas.
7. Promote and coordinate the language area's continuous publication of student contributions, and teachers' practical experiences.

   Note: The Student Contribution link page at http://www.kidlink.org/kie/waila/students.html, and translations of this page, are mainained by Odd de Presno. The language area teams will create and maintain pages with actual student contributions to the program. In the English area, contributions start at http://www.kidlink.org/english/wai/kidwork.html . Please post your language area's contributions at /language/wai/kidwork.html . Example: Contributions in Norwegian to be stored at /norsk/wai/kidwork.html, etc.

Keep students and teachers within a module's time framework. The lessons are written "to the kids" and you can keep that same tone, or use your own. The decision is yours. Each module's Discussion Questions and Classroom Activities are only suggestions: Feel free to add any of your own ideas.
Motivate the kids to write and communicate in KidCom's Who-Am-I? rooms. Send prompts when room is silent. Encourage students to interact with each other as well as answer the discussion questions. Encourage them to collaborate and share knowledge with each other.