I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #48
I*EARN IN ACTION #48, January 4, 1999
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I*EARN News Flashes!
1999 SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE HOSTED BY THE I*EARN ORILLAS CENTER IN
PUERTO RICO: July 11-17. For more information contact: Enid Figueroa,
Puerto Rico efigueroa@orillas.upr.clu.edu or Kristin Brown, USA
krbrown@iearn.org. See http://www.igc.apc.org/iearn/meetings.html for
more details.
I*EARN 2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - BEIJING,CHINA: The I*EARN Assembly
has voted for the 2000 site and the Winner is... CHINA!!!! Congratulations
and many thanks to Subude and her team for working on the proposal and for
their willingness to host.
CONGRATULATIONS TO SEBASTIJAN PODGORNIK OF SLOVENIA!: He has been elected
the I*EARN Youth Representative for 1999. You may contact Sebastijan with
your questions, comments, ideas, suggestions, etc. at
sebastijan.podgornik@guest.arnes.si.
A SPECIAL GOODBYE to Helena Kocanova, I*EARN coordinator in the Czech
Republic, and best wishes for new forms of I*EARN involvement in your
future job. And, A WARM WELCOME to the new I*EARN coordinator, Katka
(Katerina) Cajkova.
ANOTHER SPECIAL GOODBYE to Erblin Rexha, I*EARN coordinator in Albania,
and best wishes to her in Toronto, Canada. And, A WARM WELCOME to the new
I*EARN coordinator Mr. Saimir Repishti.
1998 HUMANITARIAN PROJECT UPDATE: For Karen students in Thailand. Earlier
this year a teacher aide was employed with money raised by participants in
The First Peoples' Project. Previously there were 75 students to one
teacher. 70 - 80 blankets are being taken to the Karen villages by
Siriluck Hiri-O-Tappa. These blankets were given to us by Brenda Venters,
coordinator of The Longest Knitted Scarf Project (another I*EARN
project!). Scarves were knitted by I*EARN students and teachers, then knit
into blankets by the community of Lara Primary School. Qantas, the
Australian Airlines, transported the 5 boxes to Thailand for free.
http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/fp/.
1999 IT CHALLENGE: Seeking support for "Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) Computer
Literacy" an effort aiming to bring computer technology into all the 112
Kilimanjaro secondary schools by 2005. "This is what I call a challenge to
I*EARN family!" If you have new or old computers, you can send it / them
to this project. If you can offer your services, you can volunteer in this
project. If you can convince your family, friends, companies, churches,
mosques, temples, synagogues to help send computers to this project please
do so. For more info, contact Onesmo A.M. Ngowi, Tanzania
KIT@FORM-NET.COM OR FuTech@FORM-NET.COM.
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
NEW GLOBAL ART WEBSITE:
http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/painting/index.htm.
Please have a look at our (Uganda and Australian coordinated), Colouring
Our Culture website link while you are there.
http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/culture/index.htm.
PEACE SCAVENGER HUNT: Collaborating youth organizations seek international
participants for cross-cultural online scavenger hunt focussing on peace
activists and the universal concepts of doing good, practicing tolerance,
and being respectful of others. Contact Kelly Alfieri kellyalf@aol.com.
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
CHILDREN'S FOLK GAMES: The game is a main activity of the child and
represents a link between the past, the present and the future. Children'
creations reflect their spiritual universe. Share short descriptions of
any game, counting out rhymes, recorded songs, tongue twisters, artwork or
photographs representing group games. Possible outcomes will be a
universal anthology with children's folk games, artwork and photographs, a
recorded tape, and a web site. See this topic in iearn.kidscan.
E'99: A project related to the astronomical event of the century for
Europe, the total solar eclipse from 11th of August 1999. Although it
starts from an astrological event, the project will allow an
interdisciplinary approach (physics, mathematics, history, literature,
art) and active learning. To participate, see iearn.environ.
KINDRED: The final submission date for stories for Kindred has been
extended to February 1, 1999. We would love to hear how the lives of your
students' ancestors have been influenced by the events of world history.
For samples see the submissions in iearn.family.
LAWS OF LIFE ESSAY PROJECT: I*EARN-USA and the John Templeton Foundation
are sponsoring an international essay project inviting students to reflect
on and write about the values that have helped shape their lives.
Teacher's Guides are available in English, Russian, Hindi, Chinese and
Spanish. Essay deadline: May 31, 1999. For more info see iearn.values.
LEARNING CIRCLES ARE ABOUT TO BEGIN: An LC is 6-8 school teams joined for
15 weeks in the virtual space of an electronic classroom. This circle
works on projects drawn from the curriculum of each of the classrooms
organized around a selected theme. To participate, complete an application
by January 15th. For info and an application see
http://www.iearn.org/circles.
1999 MUSIC PROJECT-PUERTO RICO: Join a project to compile an I*EARN
songbook. It is hoped that these songs will be sung this summer at the
I*EARN conference in Puerto Rico. The choice of songs (from your country)
is up to you. See this topic in iearn.teachers.
NATIONAL FLAGS AND EMBLEMS: These symbols preserve the history and
traditions of the nations they represent. This project will collect
materials about the national flags of the 52 countries taking part in it.
Our aim is to create a Web page, containing info about the meaning of the
colours and symbols used. For info, contact Valentina Oleinikova,
Bulgaria.
THE WETLANDS PROJECT: The project is aimed at the study of wetlands, the
existing legislation on their protection, public awareness of the effect
of their activities on the ecology, water levels, and purity of water in
the wetlands, as well as work with local NGO's to ensure their protection.
For more info, write to Lawrence Ssenkubuge, Uganda.
Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!
STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM FOR EMERGING LEADERS: January 28 - 30 1999 in
Monterrey, Mexico. See www.worldforum-mty.org or write to Jessica Garza
at garzajessica@hotmail.com.
CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING CONFERENCE (CoSN): Feb 24-26, 1999 in
Washington, D.C., USA. For more info, contact Keith Krueger (202-466-6296,
ext 18) or see http://www.cosn.org/conference/index.html.
NAT'L YOUTH CONFERENCE FOR THE HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: April 10 & 11,
1999; Washington, DC, USA. Contact lorengost@aol.com.
HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: May 11-16; The Hague, Netherlands. For more
information: http://www.haguepeace.org or mailbox@ipb.org.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS MIRK'99: Slovenia
between May 19-21,1999. Call for papers
http://www2.arnes.si/~ljosi8/piranan.html. Contact
alenka.makuc@guest.arnes.si.
WORLD SUMMIT OF YOUTH PEACEMAKERS: May 29 - June 1, 1999; Phoenix,
Arizona, U.S.A. Contact J'Lien Liese imsi@earthlink.net or see
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/NCPCR.
NECC'99: National Educational Computing Conference to be held June
22-24,1999 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. For more info, call
541.349.7571; fax 541.302.3781 or write necc99@ccmail.uoregon.edu
http://www.neccsite.org/.
INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS OF ALKMAAR: From July 9-11, 1999 in
Alkmaar, the Netherlands. For more info, contact frankschmid@hotmail.com
or imuna@bart.nl or see http://www.bart.nl/~imuna.
UNITED YOUTH CONFERENCE: July 18-25, 1999; San Francisco State University,
U.S.A. Designed as a prototype for a proposed United Nations Youth
Assembly. See http://www.oneday.org.
SYDNEY 2000: October 2000 in Sydney, Australia. For more information email
David Carter at bairnssec@peg.apc.org.
For Reference
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