I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #41
I*EARN IN ACTION #41, August 3, 1998
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I*EARN Global School Calendar!
Welcome back schools in the Northern Hemisphere!
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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 years
conference in Puerto Rico July 11-17. 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 this
address: http://www.topuertorico.org
INSIDE VIEW: The 1998 edition of this urban issues project is completed.
Contact Windel at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York to order
a copy: windel@copenfund.igc.org.
UNITED YOUTH CONFERENCE: Youth leaders are currently being recruited as
potential Youth Ambassadors to this conference which is a prototype for a
permanent UNITED NATIONS YOUTH ASSEMBLY. Hosting young people from around
the world, this Conference will bring Youth Ambassadors together to create
a global platform
from which the voices, ideas, concerns and solutions of young people can
be
heard. See http://www.oneday.org or contact Benjamin Quinto at
bquinto@mindspring.com
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
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.
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
KINDRED: You are invited to join this project which focuses on
family history. Student submissions are required by December 1, 1998. A
book compiled from the responses will be distributed in early 1999.
Submissions may be read and sent to iearn.ideas.
UTOPIAN VISIONS '99: an interdisciplinary telecomputing project, seeks
secondary school students (ages 14 -19) and teachers for a
collaborative study of municipal histories over a 300-year time period
(1799-2099). Ongoing email exchanges will support debate of utopian
visions and dystopian realities, enabling students and teachers facing
technological challenges to participate even with the most basic
Internet access. For more information please consult the iearn.ideas.
BORGES Y YO: Invitamos a todos los que quieran conocer la vida y la obra
del gran
escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges , que visiten la conferencia
llamada iearn.borges . Alli encontraron
propuestas de lectura y escritura, elaboracicn de una biografia entre
todos los que participan y comentarios en general.
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 .
FACES OF WAR - GLOBAL ART WORK DUE IN BY OCTOBER 20: This is an ongoing
cross curriculum project that looks at the lives of ordinary people around
the
globe thrown into traumatic circumstances. The project examines four main
groups, refugees, holocaust survivors, loved ones at home and veterans of
war. Each year a number of themes are put up for student exhibitions of
art work. This year the final
exhibition is to be held on November 11th. For more information see:
http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/fow/faces.html NEWSGROUP:
iearn.ventures
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
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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