follow up on working conditions in those countries?"

KarenRL says, "Well . . .researching the company of the product, for
starters. Then, you might be able to get more research on
that company. . ."

akiesel[guest] says, "Flow charts for economics. Kids could look at
products in their hands and get a good start"

KarenRL exclaims, "Thanks, guys for helping me out. I was struggling
for a moment!"

RichardS says, "oooh. yeah. social action. political activism.
excited now."

i'm

TomHD says, "Could get into how a bar code scanner works..."

RichardS appears to be excited

akiesel[guest] says, "look at firestonetires"

KarenRL says, "Could determine which products are purchased the most."

BernieD says, "You'll even learn that there are several different types
of codes (as I did)"

akiesel[guest] says, "supply and demand"

TomHD says, "Living in Hong Kong, this one speaks volumes to me in terms
of low SE Asian wages..."

JenW exclaims, "OhMiGosh - it works!! This could be such a cool
project!!"

KarenRL exclaims, "Now that is very interesting!"

BernieD says, "Graph which state supplied the biggest number of things
in your classroom."

JenW asks, "Are codes copyrighted???"

JenW asks, "barcodes??"

BernieD says, "Hmmm.... don't think so."

BernieD says, "They're regulated to be unique, though."

BJB says, "may I take a minute and ask who needs a transcript of this
session? We're having tstormsand I'm not too sure how much
longer my connection will last..."

JenW asks, "so you could scan some in and let the kids find out what
codes you had harvested?? Or let kids bring in codes to
scan??"

BernieD says, "Cool idea."

BJB says, "if you want a transcript type your email now"

KarenRL says, "I do! camaraife@aol.com"

TomHD says, "Maybe we could leap from bar codes to social security

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