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In a message dated 11/7/98 8:27:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << We'll pass along whatever we come across both positive and contructively negative. >> Thanks, each of our insights are valuable for the group collectively, I think. It is interesting for me to compare the after action value of my experience with the American Memory Fellows program with my recent return from spending two weeks teaching and living in Russia. Twenty U.S. teachers participated in the USIA funded program which included a four day workshop last summer in Delaware where we met with 70 Russian teachers who had been selected to come to the U.S. for 7 weeks. Upon their return home, some of them elected to sponsor each of us to live and work with them for two weeks in October. It was an incredible experience that generated many emotions, insights, surprises and questions for each of the American teachers who participated. We are now struggling with trying to communicate with each other upon our return because the program does not provide the wonderful framework that American Memory has in place. I am confident that with time we will have a web site or listserve that will be most useful but in the meantime much of our initial ideas and insights can only be shared with much effort and not with everyone. It has made me most thankful for the American Memory framework because I am now learning from fellows that I have never met as they work with the collection and their own sharing of it with others. Laura Laura Wakefield 97 Fellow Neptune Middle School Kissimmee, Florida