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Project I-57 |
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n = 20sex:
F - 11
M - 8
not mentioned - 1
Please answer the questions below truthfully and in as much detail as you can. Don’t worry about what you say about the topics below; your survey is completely confidential and will be seen only by the researcher at the University of Illinois; it won’t be shown either to your teacher or the people you write about.
1. Put a check ( ) next to the schools your class communicated with over the last year as part of Project I-57:Maine East High School _____ 20
2. Did you exchange e-mail and other correspondence with specific students at any of these schools?Yes ____ 19
No _____ 1
3. If so, what were their names and the schools they were at?mentioned student name (if ‘yes’ in 2) - 19
gave no student name - 0school mentioned: Maine East HS - 18
school not mentioned (if “yes” in 2) - 1
4. How often did you communicate with the Project I-57 student(s) above? Put a check next to one of these answers:a. never _____ 0
b. only once _____ 0
c. just a few times over the semester _____ 0
d. a couple of times a month _____ 1
e. at least once a week _____17
c. almost every day _____ 2
5. What would you say was the total number of times you communicated with the Project I-57 student(s)?a. never _____ 0
b. only once _____ 0
c. 2-5 times total _____ 0
d. 5-10 times total _____ 4
e. more than 10 times total _____ 16
6. When did you communicate with them for the first time? (Estimate the month and day, if you’re not sure. If you communicated with more than one school, list each school separately.)no response - 1
2nd semester - 17
April 15, 1999 (but communication was started earlier) - 1
The middle of April and beginning of May - 1
7. When was the most recent time you communicated with them? (If you communicated with more than one school, list each school separately.)
no response - 1May 26, 1999 ("today") - 12
May 20, 1999 ("last week") - 2
May 16, 1999 - 1
"last week" - 2
"today" - 1
beginning of May - 1
8. How did you communicate with the other student(s)? Check all the ways that you used.
no response - 0
e-mail ___20
electronic (Web) postcards ___ 20
telephone ___ 0
making Web pages about yourself ___ 18
other (describe) _____ 2distance learning - 19
CU-See Me - 12
9. What kinds of things did you talk about when you communicated with students at the other schools?
no response - 0ourselves - 1
my family - 6
home life - 1
friends - 4
pets - 1
our community - 4
lives in our towns - 1
what I like to do - 5
hobbies - 3
what things I participate in - 1
sports - 2
what we disliked - 2
school - 5
school shootings/violence - 2
school schedule - 2
day at school - 3
boys - 1
good times, bad times - 1
daily life - 6
what they do - 1
holidays - 1
your favorite holiday - 1
their perfect weekend - 2
what we and they did in their spare time - 1
where I would go on vacation - 1
our most special things/treasure/prized possessions - 3
what life is like in N. Illinois - 1
farming - 1
extra activities- 1
future lives - 1
how I would change the world today - 1
fears - 1
possessions - 1
kid stuff - what's going on - 1
10. How did you feel about each of the students you communicated with more than once -- positive things, negative things?
no response - 1positive - 5
they were nice - 4negative - 0
they ... were great examples to us, very nice people and teachers
nice, funny, better understanding of Chicago life. more violence.
there personalaty and there [sic]
developed better understanding of students from North
haven't really talked to them. But I found that they are pretty cool
it was exciting
they were a lot like us
I thought they were just like us. They were very nice.
positive things (sports, family seemed very interesting)
I liked how they were from different cultures
Positive things. He hasn't sent me anything yet! From what I've learned he is a great guy!
They were positive things, it was exiting [sic]
They were a lot different in some ways but seemed like really nice people.
I thought this student was very interesting. He seemed like a nice kid.
11. Were any of them from a different ethnic, social or religious group than you and your family? What did you find you had in common with them? What was different?
no response - 0
yes - 12some of their ethnic were different. they talked different than us(in common)
they had Islam, Catholic, Buddah, and stuff like that. They also have drive-bys
they had a lot of different religions and different nationalities
Islam
I haven't gotten any emails. So I don't no [sic] much about them. They were different religion. They had more crimes.
Some were different ethnic, lots of them liked sports
Yes. Islan [sic], Budism
They did go to church and believe in god [sic] but they had different religions such as butist [sic] Islam, cathlic [sic], every other religion too. They talked different. Like different things.
Yes. Some religions wer elike mine! Some religions were not like mine.
There were scandu [sic] , Buddist, Islam, and I am Baptist.They liked the same sports - 2(different)
we both liked sports
they like the same things and hang out with their friends the way they [sic] do
we did the same things.
basketball is a huge sport
We were just normal kids, just like them.
We both feel strongly about religion.
they like to watch TVTheir lives and how they go about life.
their different religions
color of skin. hair. dress. (they way they dress) (clothes)
They were from all different countries and religions and family.
Some had differnt [sic] Gods than we do.
I developed a better understanding of kids from up north.
12. After learning more about the lives of the students you communicated with, did your thoughts and feelings about them change in any way? More positively? More negatively? (talk about each student separately)
no response - 0more positive - 7
because some of them lost their family members in shootings
about a student named "Moses" has a wonderful since [sic] of humor
I felt closer to them
I felt pretty close to the students I communicated with because they were very common with us.
more positvely because they were just like me in many waysmore negative - 0
one neggative thing is the girl whoose [sic] cousin got killed
no change - 1not at all. We never really got to know them
yes - 8
yes. I feel like we are ALMOST in the same place.
yes, I found her to be not to [sic] different form us.
yes, I got to know about life in Chicago
Yes, I learned that not all people from the north are in gangs
yes, some what [sic]. I really don't no [sic] any one personally, but I, I did remember alot [sic] about them.
yes, because I thought that the boys would be kind of gang like
yes, my feeling changed! they changed positivly [sic] about all of them!
yes. I felt closer linked to Chicago.
they are just like us!OTHER:
I never talked to my partner. I never recieved [sic] email from him.
13. After learning more about the communities of the students you communicated with, did your thoughts and feelings about these towns change in any way? More positively? More negatively? (talk about each town separately)
no response - 1
more positive - 1That place would be nice to live in. Main East is a positive place with few negative things.
more negative - 2Yes -
yes, thoughts changed - 1No -
yes, I wouldn't want to live in Chicago
yes, I thought Chicago was full of crime but it really isn't
yes, my feelings about the town changed. I did think mostly of violence up there but its not like that.
most lived in Middle Class suburbsno - 3
It didn't really change at all. (student who never received e-mail)
no, I pretty much knew
we didn't talk much about our towns - 7
14. Did any of your original ideas about other parts of Illinois turned out to be wrong? Which ideas?
no response - 1
no - 13
yes - 6(about everying)
(they were all wild gang member, I was wrong)
(Chicago is not all the way ful [sic] of crime)
(I thought that Chicago was full of crime.)
(I thought there was more violence.)
(No, I imagined it how it would be, my grampa used to live, their [sic], and often; I hear about.)
(The upper part of Illinois is very modernized. They have things that we don't even know what they are.)
(Chicago having a lot of gangsters.)
15. Did you find out about any ethnic, religious, or social groups through Project I-57 that you hadn’t realized lived in Illinois before? (Mention the groups.)
no response - 0
no - 7
yes - 11
I did not know there would be so many - 1
budist - 2
Serbian - 1
many religions - 1
religious (Muslim) - 1
Islamic - 4
Hindu - 1
from different country religions - 1
many Indian - 1
I think one girl's religion was Indian Orthodox - 1
16. Before your class’s involvement with Project I-57, were there any ethnic, religious or social groups here in Illinois that you felt uncomfortable with or had negative feelings towards? Why did you feel that way? (mention the groups)
no response - 1
no - 13
no because no religion is wrong
no. I never have.
no, everyone is intitled [sic] to their own religions
no. They weren't really different on the subject of being a real personyes - 5
I didn't know what they'd be like
Yes, Budda, so on!
I think that people from their countries should stay there. (corrected "did you feel" to "do you feel") M
Yes, because I wasn't really for sure about them and didn't have a good understanding
17. Have any of your feelings towards those groups changed as a result of your contact with other students through Project I-57 -- either more positive or more negative?
no response - 1
more positive - 5yes, now I know how they really are. - 1more negative - 0
Yes. Positive. They are not prejudice [sic] just because they have a different religion.
no - 13 (including male who thought people should stay in their own countries)
no change - 1
18. Which way do you feel you learned the most from? (choose a or b)no response - 0
(a) learning about the other parts of Illinois from information put on the Web by students from that area - 1
(b) learning about other parts of Illinois by communicating directly with students from that area - 18(a) and (b) - 1
19. Would you now be interested in maybe visiting some of the communities and students in Illinois you learned about in Project I-57 during this school year?no - 0
yes - 20very much so!!!!!!! Please !!!!
Yes, CHICAGO !!!!
I would like to visit Chicago.
Yes, I would think that would be great. I really want to.