I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #32
I*EARN IN ACTION #32, March 20,1998
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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
Register by May 1. Cost, including conference fee, room, and 3 meals a day
for six days total is $450.To submit a workshop proposal for the
conference, write to conf98@copenfund.igc.apc.org with the
Name(s)/Country Origin(s) of Presenter(s),Title of Workshop, Description
(approximately one page),Outline of Workshop (approximately one page),and
Technology Needs. Proposals are due by March 25.
I*EARN News Flashes!
I*EARN WWW PAGES-have been judged to be in the "Finalist" category in the
"Global Information Infrastructure" competition. This honor is for all
I*EARN participants because it is your work that is highlighted on the
WWW. Congratulations and thanks to everyone!
CENTRAL EUROPEAN AND CENTRAL ASIAN I*EARN COORDINATORS MEETING: Greetings
to the 50 coordinators and teachers meeting this week in Prague, Czech
Republic.
I*EARN.FRANCAIS - We now have a new conference iearn.francais where
teachers and students who desire to work in the French language can
communicate.
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
BULGARIAN I*EARN SERVER - See the first Bulgarian WWW server for students'
sites (with Map, Bulgarian and English versions):
http://www.osf.acad.bg/schools
TIGERS ONLINE- See iearn.environ many new postings from countries with
endangered or extinct tiger populations.
THE FIRST PEOPLES' WWW SITE - It will be changing monthly and this month
(March) features writing, art and photo from Thailand, Australia and
Argentina. There is also a special feature of the month written by
students at A:Shiwi Elementary School, Zuni, U.S.A. on a visitor to their
school from Australia.
http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/fp
SCHOOLS DEMINING SCHOOLS - Questions from a number of participating
schools went out to deminers in Afghanistan, see their responses on
iearn.landmines or:
http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus/banmines
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Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 1998 ASAP: Atlas of Student Action for the
Planet.The United Nations CyberSchoolBus will put together an on-line
global atlas of student action on the environment and they invite you to
send a 100-150 word description of your class or group contribution to the
protection, restoration and enhancement of the environment. Submissions
will be made available on-line as part of the UN's observance of World
Environment Day, 5 June 1998. E-MAIL the completed form with all your
answers to: enviroday@un.org by the DEADLINE of:15 May 1998. More info
on iearn.environ or see http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/planet
I*EARN ONEDAY - See new postings from Ghana and Kazakstan iearn.oneday.
CALENDAR OF FOLK CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS - Don't forget to send your
customs and superstitions about special days in your county/community to
help create this calendar of local celebrations on iearn.ideas.
VALUES - High School Brezice, Slovenia, would like to thank everyone who
answered their survey, "Make Our Day." They still welcome more responses.
See iearn.teachers .You may view the results on:
http://www2.arnes.si/~sskkssb2s/values.htm
Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!
ASIA-PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM: Several project coordinators and participants of
I*EARN projects will be attending and presenting at this conference on
April 2, including Siriluck Hiri-O-Tappa, Thailand, and Virginia King
Muriel Wells, and Jo Tate, Australia. In attendance will also be speakers
from India and Korea with other participants from the region. See
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/news/unesconf/gutconf.htm for more
information, or write to Andrew Hocking at ahocking@peg.pegasus.oz.au.
YOUTH CAN 1998 CONFERENCE: This year's conference will be happening on
April 23rd. The theme is biodiversity. More than 800 students in Austin,
Texas, and 850 students in New York City at the The American Museum of
natural History attended YouthCaN 1997. Through the use of
telecommunications, students from Australia, Spain, Argentina, Belarus,
Lithuania, and Washington state were also able to participate. For more
information, write to youthcan@igc.apc.org, or visit
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan/ or iearn.youthcan.
CU SeeMe ARTS EVENT: On April 4th, from 2-6 pm in New York City, USA the
performance artist Jenny Marketou will be hosting an interactive
performance on the I*EARN reflector site and invites the participation of
all I*EARN schools that have access to CU SeeMe. The performance is open
andsuitable for all ages. For more information, or to RSVP, write to
iearn@iearn.org, or jmarketo@thing.net.
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/
For Reference
All previous news flashes are saved in the newsgroup: iearn.news in a
text only format. Spanish translations are also available on:
iearn.latina
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