I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #30
I*EARN IN ACTION #30, February 18,1998
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I*EARN Global School Calendar!
Most Northern and Southern Hemisphere schools are in session.
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Special Events!
FIFTH ANNUAL I*EARN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
WHERE: Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.A.
WHEN: July 12-18, 1998
THEME: Linking Communities to Make a Difference
COST: $450 (includes seven day registration, room, and meals)
For more information, write to Chattanooga@copenfund.igc.apc.org
http://www.iearn.org/iearn/Chattanooga98.html
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I*EARN News Flashes!
I*EARN SLOVENIA - together with the Open Society institute Slovenia and
The Ministry of Education and Sports is announcing the third International
Conference on computers in Education. It will be in Piran, Slovenia from
May 20 till 22, 1998. You are kindly invited to send your contributions
until March 15,1998. The Call for papers is on
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljosi8/piranan.html
SENEGAL - A new group in Linguere, Senegal,West Africa, is now
participating in I*EARN and would like to hear from you. The Centre
Culturel de Linguere has students and teachers who speak French, Spanish,
German, English and Wolof.
COMMUNICATION IN RUSSIAN - A mailing list is open for those who want to
communicate in Russian (cyrillic alphabet). To subscribe, send a message
to iearn@iearn.org
Dorogije Druzja! S Novym Godom! Otkryt spisok rassylki dla teh kto
zhelajet obshchat'sia po-russki na kirillice. Chtoby podpisat'sia,
napishite po adresu iearn@iearn.org
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
INTERNATIONAL FOLK COSTUMES - Romania announces their new web page
including costumes from: Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Japan,
Latvia, Russia, and many many more:
http://lcjdap.soroscj.ro/projects/iearn/fcatg
VALUES - This new Web site is not finished yet but they would like your
comments on the topic.
http://www2.arnes.si/guest/sskkssb2s/narrate.htm
THE FOUNTAIN - The international literary magazine has a recently created
web site with address:
http://www.geocities.com/collegepark/campus/9754
http://www.acs.acad.bg
POLISH WEB SITES (English version included)
http://rhea.ids.pl/iearn/ - the main informational page about I*EARN (in
Polish only)
http://rhea.ids.pl/iearn/proj/HGP/Tybet - Tibet - The Dying Culture (a HGP
project, Polish and English version.)
http://rhea.ids.pl/iearn/proj/Old_Hut - a new original project
NEW FIRST PEOPLES WEB SITE - See some of the writing, photos and art work
of students who are involved in the project.
http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/fp
DISCOVERING EMINESCU - The first part of "Discovering EMINESCU" project
web site with: 6 introductions and 100 poems in 6 languages (Romanian,
English, Spanish, French, German, Russian) and many photos and graphics.
For more information on participating in the second part of the project
see this topic on iearn.teachers.
http://lcjdap.soroscj.ro/projects/iearn/de/cuprins.html
http://www.starnets.ro/EMINESCU
http://www.sfos.ro/iearn
http://www.thebans.com/eminescu
FREE FAX SERVICE VIA WEB PAGE:
http://www-usa.tpc.int/sendfax.html
CHRISTMAS NIGHT - Spain announces their Web page with a small selection of
Christmas cards and messages that have been exchanged during the project.
http://www.pangea.org/~tonic/night
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
IEARN.IDEAS - See new projects on iearn.ideas including:
Calendar of folk customs and superstitions of the world
Bird watch (Environmental project)
Moments of Catharsis (Arts project)
Foreign Country In My Eyes
"E'99" PROJECT - On 11th of August 1999 at 11:04 GMT there will be a total
Solar Eclipse. This project is being sponsored in Romania where the
eclipse will be the strongest. The project will have three phases, two
before the eclipse and one in the time of the eclipse. First phase
February 1998 - May 1998. Seeiearn.teachers
SHOULD AMERICA ATTACK IRAQ? -Let your students have their say in the Faces
of War Project. See the new topic posting in iearn.ventures
LEWIN - Topics for the 1998 edition of this literary magazine have been
posted on iearn.lewin. If you send submissions please make sure you
register under the "Registration" topic so that the facilitators in
Australia can distribute the final version properly.
SECONDARY SCHOOLS NEEDED - Muriel Wells in Australia writes: We have had
some very successful exchanges between classes of secondarystudents in the
Teddy Bear Project. There are a couple of classes waiting for matches for
ages 13 to 16. See iearn.kidscan
THE CONTEMPORARY DEADLINE - After March 5, 1998, Cold Spring Harbor High
School, which publishes The Contemporary, will not be accepting more
messages or articles for the May 1998 issue. Please send things as soon as
possible to iearn.tc!
Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!
NECC, NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONFERENCE - San Diego, California,
USA. Monday, June 22, 1998 through Wednesday, June 24, 1998.
Pre-Conference Workshop Days: Saturday, June 20, 1998 through Sunday, June
21, 1998. For more information write to necc@oregon.uoregon.edu, or
visit the NECC '98 website at: http://necc98.csusm.edu/
MIT JUNIOR SUMMIT - Children between the ages of 10 and 16 from every
country in the world are invited to enter a contest to participate in the
1998 Junior Summit to be held at MIT in the United States during the fall
of 1998. Approximately 1,000 participants will be selected to participate
in an online forum based on how well they can document -- in their native
language, through a video or photographic essay, through a musical piece,
or through drawing or painting -- the state of children in their
community, with particular focus on how the digital revolution is
affecting them. Those children with little or no exposure to the digital
revolution are asked to give their vision of a global community. For more
information see iearn.teachers of http://www.jrsummit.net or e-mail to
jrsummit@media.mit.edu
1998 STUDENT TECHNOLOGY LEADERS AWARD - The purpose of this award is to
honor outstanding students (USA only) who have made exemplary and
innovative use of information technology in their schools and communities.
Three students will be chosen to attend the 1998 National Educational
Computing Conference in San Diego, California, June 22-June 24, 1998.
Winning students will present their projects to those attending the
conference and receive an award. Modest and reasonable travel expenses
will be reimbursed for the winners and one chaperone each by Compaq
Computer Corporation. Deadline is February 28, 1998. For more information
e-mail deneen@mindspring.com or see iearn.teachers.
YOUTH CAN 1998 CONFERENCE: The conference will take place on April 23rd
with the theme of biodiversity. More than 800 students in Austin, Texas,
and 850 students in New York City attended YouthCaN 1997. Through
telecommunications, students from Australia, Spain, Argentina, Belarus,
Lithuania, and Washington State also participated. Write to
youthcan@igc.apc.org or visithttp://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan/
BUILDING COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: Participate in this online
conference, running from April 15 to May 7, and hosted in conjunction with
a face-to-face conference at the University of Houston in Texas. The
conference's objective is to help communities distill, create, and
identify the best practices for long term healthy community development.
Write to sitzkan@planet-tech.com or visit
http://www.planet-tech.com/futuresforum
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