I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #40
I*EARN IN ACTION #40, August 18,1998
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I*EARN News Flashes!
1999 SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE HOSTED BY THE I*EARN ORILLAS CENTER IN
PUERTO RICO - Start planning to come to next year's conference in Puerto
Rico during the second week of July. Send your ideas, recommendations and
questions to: Enid efigueroa@orillas.upr.clu.edu or Kristin
krbrown@iearn.org. You can find general information about Puerto Rico
at: http://www.topuertorico.org.
CONGRATULATIONS!: I*EARN member Philemon Kotsokoane has been selected as
the World Bank's WorLD Program Coordinator for South Africa. Post messages
under the topic "Congratulations" on iearn.teachers.
1998 CONFERENCE DISCUSSION LIST: Sharing and discussion about the Fifth
Annual I*EARN Conference last month has been moved to the existing
conference iearn.conf98.
EARTHWATCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: Offers fellowships for K-12 educators to
participate in a two-week field research expedition around the world
during the spring and summer of 1999. Application deadline: February 15,
1999. See http://www.earthwatch.org or e-mail Matt Craig at
mcraig@earthwatch.org.
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
I*EARN YOUTH WEB PAGES: Web pages for Central and Eastern Europe can now
be found at http://www.gimp.ml.org/~iearn/index.html.
H.O.P.E - Project Vltava, Czech republic - The team of DG club at Dvoraks
highschool made a project about the Czech's biggest
river - presented in Chattanooga (1998 conference) . It put together
history, flora and ecological situation of the stream
of this river. Available in Czech & English.
http://members.xoom.com/Vltava/Vltava.html.
MORE 1998 CONFERENCE PHOTOS:
http://orillas-web.upr.clu.edu/chattanooga98/disco1/disco1.html.
http://orillas-web.upr.clu.edu/chattanooga98/disco2/disco2.html.
http://orillas-web.upr.clu.edu/chattanooga98/disco3/disco3.html.
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT: We are looking for more participants this term. See
http://users.netconnect.com.au/~skippy/history.
1998-1999 LEARNING CIRCLES: Session 1 (Sep. to Jan.): Begins September 28
(the first week in October) and ends on January 9 (15 weeks minus a
two-week break in December). Placement forms are due on Sept. 14 and can
be found at http://www.iearn.org/circles/lc-placement.html or by writing
to Margaret Riel at mriel@uci.edu.
LEARNING CIRCLE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING. Session 1 (Sep. to Jan.). If
interested, contact Jim Wallace jwall5@igc.org.
ART PROJECT 1998: "Our Community, Past and Present." Involves indigenous
students around the world. Students create art and writing about the
importance of landscape-buildings, plants, animals, people, etc. to the
community. To join, or for more info, see the topic (Art Project 98) on
iearn.fp.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE: Since 1948, UN peacekeepers have been in the
public eye, by turns honoured and vilified,
commemorated and misrepresented. To celebrate the International Day of
Peace, the UN CyberSchoolBus is launching a project
called '50 years of Peacekeeping' See
http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus/peacekeeping or contact
globalschoolbus@un.org.
HUMAN RIGHTS: To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International is
collecting signatures as a statement of people's commitment to an
international agenda of human rights. To sign, email
udhr50th@amnesty.org.au. Subject: Your Name. Text: "I support the rights
and freedoms in the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights for all people, everywhere."
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Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!
GLOBAL LEARN DAY - October 11 and 12, 1998. The Conference "sails" on a
virtual "clipper", with a westward "route" to more than 200 countries. At
each "port" leaders in distance education, Internet technology and public
service will webcast presentations:
http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html.
GLOBAL LEARNING CONFERENCE: Showcasing knowledge and experience in
integration of modern information technology in education, and
establishing a greater understanding of cultural diversities, regionally,
nationally and globally. Copenhagen,
Denmark. October 18-21,1998. For more information, see
http://www.globallearning.org or contact Inge Lise Hammer
ILH@FA.DK.
TEL-ED CONFERENCE 1998: If any teachers or students are planning to attend
the October 29-31, 1998 Tel-Ed Conference in
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA next October and would like to be a part of an
I*EARN workshop entitled, "The Power of Global
Telecommunications to Enhance Teaching and Learning," write to
iearn@iearn.org. For more info:
http://www.iste.org/Conferences/TelEd/1998/.
INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (ICC) - 23 - 25
November 1998, Dunedin, New Zealand. The Conference which is being
organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the 1998
International Children's Conference Board, Dunedin, will bring together
150 children between the ages of 10 and 12 years to learn and voice their
concerns about the state of the environment. For more info or to apply to
the Conference, contact: Theodore E.A. Oben in Kenya
theodore.oben@unep.org or see http://www.unep.org/unep/event/icc.
For Reference
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text only format. Spanish translations are also available on:
iearn.latina
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