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"IS THIS REAL...OR IS IT
ONLY A GAME?"
Mr.
D'Ambrosio,
I realize you probably have a hundred e-mails to read (half of them from
****), but I wanted to take a moment and thank you. I can't even begin to
tell you how much **** has learned about history, geography, navigating
and searching the internet, e-mail and even decoding messages in the
search for the hexagon. My husband and I are just amazed at how excited
he is about all of this. We are also just astonished at how elaborate
this is. I think by breakfast **** will probably try to convince us to
buy him a plane ticket to Mexico as his Christmas gift. I only hope he
doesn't remember that several of our friends are FBI agents. I would much
rather see him this excited though, than have to force him to do his
homework.
We of course, do not allow him to search the internet unsupervised so we
have actually learned a lot also. This is partly the reason why I am
e-mailing you at 1 a.m. **** wouldn't let me near my e-mail all night -
just in case you or Dr. Hawass needed to get in touch with him.
Again, thank you. I hope that the school district realizes what a great teacher they
have. If there is ever anything I can do for you please do not hesitate
to ask.
I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday!
Mother of Student
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The Hexagon Challenge was
designed by Jay D'Ambrosio, M.A., history teacher at Hampton Middle School in
Allison Park, Pennsylvania. In 2010, Jay was named one of the "50
most innovative educators in the nation" by PBS. Two of his
educational Web sites have been named Best Bets in Education by USA
Today:
Adventures in World History
Ancient Adventures
Jay is the author of the
following books and articles:
Ordered Disorder: Finding Divine Patterns in the Midst of Life's Chaos
(Amazon Shorts, 2008)
The Mythic Teacher
(Mythic Passages: The Magazine of Imagination,
Educating the Imagination, September
2007)
The
Initiation of Perseus (Mythic Passages: The Magazine of Imagination,
Rites of Passage, May
2007)
Rethinking Adolescence: Using Story to Navigate Life's Uncharted Years
(Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006)
Egyptian Influence Upon
Early Israelite Literature (Aeon: A Journal of Myth, Science, and
Ancient History, October 2005)
Integrating
Web Portfolios into the Learning Process (Library Media Connection,
March 2004)
E-Teaching: Creating Web
Sites and Student Web Portfolios Using Microsoft PowerPoint (Linworth
Publishing, Inc., 2003)
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