Since the creation of the Washington School web site, the webmaster has collected the e-mail that is generated from the web site. For the purpose of this evaluation, only the messages of external visitors are shown. Each e-mail is listed below with a line of asterisks separating each unique message. In some cases, whole or parts of names and personal e-mail addresses of the senders were removed to protect privacy. In addition, we are not able to determine whether they were parents, citizens, or visitors from outside Pekin – therefore it wasn’t important to label who the comments were from.

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I am interested to know how many students attend your school, types of

after-school programs, who intructs/teaches the after-school programs,

and how many computers are available for students.

Thank you.

P.S. I was very impressed with your page; your school is certainly far

more advance than the Chicago Schools.

That's great!!!

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Just happened to stop by your site (was showing it off to a co-worker), and noticed that you've got your preview page up. Cool! Looks good!

Well, I better go. Just wanted to say "hi" while I was thinking about

it. Talk to you soon.

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Congratulations! Washington Intermediate School has been selected as a

USA Group Cool School Site of the Month in the K-12 institution category.

Please confirm the following:

Team members include: Madeline Decker.

In addition to recognition on the USA Group Web site as a Cool School,

your team will be receiving six t-shirts. These shirts will be sent to 501

Washington Street, Pekin, IL 61554.

Please indicate who the faculty or administrative representative is from

your team, or your team sponsor, so I can contact the sponsor for final

authorization.

We have available link graphics on our site at www.usagroup.com/coolsch/winpage.htm that recognizes you as a Cool School Site of the Month, and would be more than happy if you would create a link to our site. As you are aware, our site contains many

resources for students and their families, and also for professionals in

higher education.

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subject: School web site feedback

school/organization: Unit Seven Schools

city/state: Tuscola, IL 61953

Country: Please select your country

grade: A

How did you find out about our school?: From a search engine on the web

comments: How old is the Washington building?

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I just wanted to tell you how much I truly enjoy your webpage for Washington School---I feel by reading it daily, it draws me closer to my son and makes me very proud of the type of education he is receiving. The children in our school district are so very fortunate & I truly hope they appreciate all the efforts yourself and all the other educators put into daily instruction and guidance. Thank you for your dedication to all your students and parents alike.

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HI!

I am a middle school teacher in Green Bay, WI and happened upon this

excellent site. Was this done by kids, teacher or was it professionally

done? Or was is a combination? Our web designers (students) and I are searching for appealing, engaging and informative sites to melt into what will eventually be our web site. We have a great start and are adding to our creation.

Thanks for your response!

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subject: School web site feedback

city/state: WOODRIDGE,IL.

Country: USA

grade: A

How did you find out about our school?: From a search engine on the web

comments: I STARTED LOOKING FOR PHEASANT HUNTING SITES IN S. DAKOTA AND ENDED UP AT LICK GAME FARM,FROM THERE I SAW PEKIN, AT THIS POINT I TRYED TO SEE IF I COULD FIND AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE WHO IS A SUB TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN PEKIN, HIS NAME I WILLIAM LOANE. TO MAKE A LONG,LONG STORY SHORT I FOUND YOUR WEB SITE EXTREMELY WELL DONE,VERY INFORMATIVE,AND FROM WHAT I CAN SEE THE KIDS PLAY THE MAJOR ROLE,WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!

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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:47:14 EDT

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: Back to school Hello

Hello and Good luck to everyone in Mrs. Decker's 6th grade!!! I am just

enjoying your first day of school looking over the Washington School site. I

will look forward to keeping track of what all the students are doing at

Washington. Have a great school year Mrs. Decker, Mrs. Westmeyer and all the

students.

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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:18:33 -0500

To: mdecker@pekin.net

From: bright@scrtec.org

Subject: Congratulations!

Congratulations! Your web site, Washington Intermediate School, at http://www.pekin.net/pekin108/wash has been selected as a Bright Site by the South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCR*TEC). Your site has been chosen because it exemplifies one or more of the Web site characterisitcs listed on the SCR*TEC page at http://scrtec.org/bright_sites/characteristics/

Please go to http://scrtec.org/bright_sites/award/ to find out how to display the Bright Sites award on you Web page.

Best wishes,

Aaron Sumner

SCR*TEC Network Communications Coordinator

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Original-From:

Original-Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 17:21:58 -0500 (CDT)

Below is the result of your feedback form. Friday, June 19, 1998 at 17:20:58

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subject: Feedback Form

Visitors School/Organization: Pekin

grade: A

comments: I found this web site through the Journal Star site. I was surprised at how much information you have here. My daughter will be in 4th grade at Washington this year. A new school can be a bit scary. This site will help her learn some things about the school. Thanks!

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Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:46:30 -0500

Organization: Washington Community High School

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: hello mrs. decker

Mrs. Decker:

Hi. My name is <taken out>. I was a former student of yours at

Edison Jr. High. I don't expect you to remember me but I just wanted to

let you know that I am 27 years old and am teaching at Washington

Community High School in Washington, Illinois. I have been helping to

make the WCHS web page and while researching school pages, I came across

WIS's page and wanted to let you know how great I thought it looked. I

also was wondering if you have a list of email addresses for the staff

at WIS. My old friend, Angie Appell works there and we have not been in

contact for quite sometime. I thought that it would be nice to send her

an email.

Anyway, thank you for your time.

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To: <mdecker@pekin.net>

Subject: Pekin

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:09:14 -0400

Hi!!!

My name is <taken out> and I live in South Florida. I ran across

your page and noticed that Pam Herchenroder works with your school. I'm

certain that we are related as my parents were born and raised there in

Pekin. I don't get home often, but it was nice to see a little something

from Pekin. If it's not too much trouble, can you get word to Pam that I

sent this E-mail? If she wants to send a message back, she may do so by

mailing to my son "Michael" at <taken out>

He will relay any messages on to me. He works with Moore Solutions Inc.

designing and building web pages so all of our correspondence goes through

his system. Thanks for your time!!!

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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:28:06 -0500 (CDT)

Subject: School web site feedback

Below is the result of your feedback form. on Thursday, April 23, 1998 at 13:27:04

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subject: School web site feedback

school/organization: LZMS-S

city/state: Illinois-US

Country: USA

grade: B

How did you find out about our school?: From a search engine on the web

comments: Nice web site. Just checking to see what you have on this site to maybe get ideas for my school's website (which is about to be remodeled by BE (the smart 8th grader :-)). It will be up soon.

http://nsn.nslsilus.org/eakhome/lzmssth/

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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 13:45:19 -0500 (CDT)

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: School web site feedback

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on Monday, August 31, 1998 at 13:44:17

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subject: School web site feedback

city/state: Parsippany, NJ

Country: USA

grade: B

comments: My brothers, Michael and Joseph, are students at Washington. My mother told me about Pekin.net and I was thrilled to find their school online. However, neither of their teachers have any information available! Please feel free to pass my email on to Mrs. Taylor and Koon (Michael) and Mr. Sattazahn (Joseph). I would love to get timely updates on what their classes are doing, so I can email the boys encouragement and questions to further their learning. I also wish there was more info in curriculum than art. Thank you for your time.

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Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:24:47 -0500 (CDT)

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: School web site feedback

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted on Tuesday, September 8, 1998 at 10:23:45

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subject: School web site feedback

school/organization: Pierce Middle School

city/state: Waterford, Michigan

Country: USA

grade: A

How did you find out about our school?: From a search engine on the web

comments: I am a former teacher at Willow Elementary School. I would love to hear from Mrs. Murphy or Mrs. Kennedy who I taught with many years ago - although they are really young teachers even now! I have put your site as one of my favorites, because I love to see what my friends are doing with their classes.

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Organization: OSF HealthCare System

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: The web page looks great!!

Mr. Hutchison & Mrs Rajsky & Staff,

I am very impressed by your web page! You've all done a great job

putting it together. I like the personal touches with the pictures and

summaries of all the activities that your classes have participated in.

This is very helpful to the community and to individuals that are

considering relocating to the area. As a physician recruiter, I am

always looking for ways to help interest families in our geographical

area. Telling them that our schools and faculty members are great is

one thing, but when they can browse the web page and see for themselves

how caring and involved the staff is makes a great impression on them!

I miss you, Linda!!

Great Job!!!!!!!

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Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 17:22:08 -0500

To: mdecker@pekin.net

Subject: Washington IS Karate Club

Hello! I'm the information specialist over at Pekin High School. Just thought I's drop a hello. I was browsing the Washington School site and thought I'd mention that our club has a web page up. It's at http://www.heart.net/shoto/wis.html

We would love it if you could link to it from somewhere in the Washington

page. We have lots of pics of the Washington kids up there. Maybe link it

from the Afterschool Activities page? OK. Nice to meet you. Hope we get a

chance to chat in person sometime.

TTYL -Aaron