Mail By the Pail

by Colin Bergel

Our students had a chance to interview Colin Bergel the author of Mail By the Pail. It is a very good book about how a father working on a freighter on the Great Lakes gets mail from his daughter. Colin did a great job with the kids. Below are some of the images from that day. Click on the thumbnail to see the larger image.

We used compressed video to connect three schools each hour.

Click for larger image.	Colin talking to students from McKinley Elem. in Van Dyke about video showing the Westcott II mail boat delivering the mail.. The portable distance learning unit is shown in the background.
Click for larger image.	A student from Washington Elem. in Mount Clemens made a wooden freighter like the "Big Laker" in the book.
Click for larger image.	The students from Mount Clemens gave Colin a pail with mail and a journal they had made about the book.
Click for larger image.	Colin talking to students in New Haven. They are connected with students in Armada.