I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #49
I*EARN IN ACTION #49, January 20, 1999
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I*EARN News Flashes!
LEARNING CIRCLES: are about to begin. 6-8 school teams join in the virtual
space of an
electronic classroom to form a circle. This circle works on projects
drawn from the
curriculum of each of the classrooms organized around a selected theme. At
the end of the 15-week term the circle collects and publishes its work.
Learning Circles promote theme-based project work integrated with the
classroom curriculum. Working with Learning Circle partners from around
the world help students develop important interpersonal skills. For
more information see http://www.iearn.org/circles.
SCENARIOS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: An online course
in which students will be taught established methodologies for thinking
logically about the future, such as trend analysis, leading
indicator identification, expert interviewing, and scenario
writing. Student work will be submitted to the National
Summit for Sustainable Development in Detroit, Michigan, USA,
May, 1999. Approximate dates: February-April, 1999. See this
topic in iearn.teachers or contact Seth Itzkan
sitzkan@planet-tech.com.
YOUTH CAN '99: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE will be held APRIL 22-24 at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City. We welcome participation
in person or via telecommunications. Contact Jason Gerber at
jgerber@amnh.org
or see the YouthCaN website: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan.
INTERNATIONAL ESSAY & ART CONTEST: The ONE DAY Foundation regrets to
announce that the Contest has been canceled due to a lack of response. We
sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment. Please check
http://www.oneday.org.
KINDRED: The final submission date for stories for Kindred has been
extended to February 1, 1999. They 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.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/W e b N e t 99: World Conference of the WWW and
Internet, Oct. 25-30, 1999, Honolulu, Hawaii. Submission Deadline: Feb.
25, 1999
see http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/.
DAY OF EMPOWERMENT: Andy Danoe from Surinam writes: "On Sunday 31 January
1999, we will be organising an 'I*EARN
Motivatie-dag' (I*EARN Empowerment Day) for the students of our school. On
this day we will try to motivate teachers and the 24
member-students ranging from age 11-19 to work on existing projects,
and/or talk
about new initiatives."
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
(including resources that are not part of I*EARN)
THE MILKEN EDUCATOR VIRTUAL WORKSPACES(MEVW): The Milken Family
Foundation's collaborative on-line teaching and learning software, is
available for free to educators, students, and members of the education
community worldwide. Go to www.mevw.org and click the submit proposal
link to get started.
CULTURAL HORIZONS GLOBAL LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: Containing links to
secondary
schools around the world that have Art and/or Writing web pages. Send them
the addresses of your school's Art and/or
Writing pages if you would like them to link them to their page. If you do
not have a web page, you can send them your
work and they will include it in their Library and Art Gallery. E-Mail:
ch.editorial@friaborgsskolan.simrishamn.se
WWW: http://www.odata.se/hotel/friab/dream.htm
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL: The editors of The Contemporary invite
you to respond to this topic and others for the May 1999 edition of
this current events magazine. Please send your responses to iearn.tc.
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: Join students in different countries sharing
stories and poems about love, respect and affection. Describe St.
Valentine's (or a similar festival) celebration at
school and in the local community. Art, including computer art, is
welcome.
Deadline for the first stage is February 12.
FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: This project is ready to begin its work for
1999. Writings, drawings, cartoons etc. are invited from current and new
participants; a booklet of the collected writings etc. will be published
for
distribution to participants, governments and international agencies.
Work starts now - to be completed by late April or mid May.
See the newsgroup iearn.projects or website
http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/marches
VISITORS PROJECT: The aim of this project, facilitated by teachers in
Uganda, is to learn about how we welcome and take care of visitors
in our different countries. It is hoped that at the end of this project,
students will have learnt about the
different ways in which different societies welcome visitors and thus
widen their scope of understanding of other societies. See this topic on
iearn.teachers for more information.
MATH CONTEST: The students of the University of Tartu (Estonia) invite you
to take part
in an internet math contest which begins on the 25th of January. The
languages of the contest will be Estonian, English
and Russian You can read the rules or send a math problem to the site of
the contest: http://www.ut.ee/~ak05.
WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS: This project aims at highlighting the problems
affecting the effective training of females in the discipline
of Mathematics in the world today and proposing solutions to these
problems. See this project on iearn.teachers.
RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION: This is an opportunity for students to identify
the causes and effects
of Rural-Urban Migration and suggest possible solutions to reduce this
phenomenon. Three secondary schools in
Uganda would like to find three schools outside of Uganda to
collaborate with on this
project from February 15,1999 through June 30,1999. See this topic on
iearn.teachers.
STREET CHILDREN: Students in Bulgaria would like students from all
over the world to share their view this pressing problem. They hope to
make governments realize that it
is high time these children are helped and encourage them to cooperate and
share experience with
other countries. See
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5382/Street.htm.
Coming Soon! Previously Announced Upcoming Events and Projects!
(including resources that are not part of I*EARN)
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.
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