An increasing number of readers has accessed our web site http://www.freeinfo.org/tch/ and have similarly communicated (by e-mail) to tell us how much they've enjoyed it. Paul Grogger told us that he has added our URL to his favorites list and urged us to "Keep up the good work." Dottie Walter, who said that she had lost touch with the Newsletter while on leave to pursue her Ph.D., reported being "delighted to see the site" so that she can catch up on what she missed. We're grateful to hear this and to know that she'll be recommending it to colleagues and friends in the field. We're also happy to hear from Ken Evans, who looks forward to revisitng our web site after his first visit. e-mail to the Editors: Our Readers Respond
B. Baehr observed how the web site will reduce paper and mailing costs, as also did Grace Bowne, who specifically praised Bernice Hauser's article about reforming science teaching from the bottom up and review of the Shorewalkers book, also Mike Passow's article on The Columbia Earth Institute (all in our Fall 1997 issue). Heida Sigurdardottir, who received our URL from one of her teachers in the secondary education program at the University of Oregon, said that the web site "looks like it will be very helpful." Another student who visited our web site, Trista Claxton, at the University of Kentucky, is also requesting a hard copy subscription. Karen Carroll described our web site as "great" and invited us to visit http://chem.ps.uci.edu/~mtaagepe/SciEd/sts.html to learn about the Orange County STS Network at the University of California-Irvine.
But the e-mail most touching to the editor was a message from one of his alumna, Betty Chan, who said, "I stumbled into The Teachers Clearinghouse for Science and Society" while on the Net. Pretty neat. . . . I bookmarked the site. . . ." On a later visit she observed that she was visitor #500! Thanks also to Ann Thurber, for the following comment received from outside of cyberspace: "The latest issue of your newsletter was most interesting. I passed it on to our new Chem/Phys instructor, who perked up over the topics. . . . Such a sharing of ideas is very beneficial since it seems to keep one encouraged."
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