I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #53
I*EARN IN ACTION #53: April 15,1999
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I*EARN Calendar: Most Northern and Southern Hemisphere schools are in
session.
Special Events!
1999 SIXTH ANNUAL I*EARN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
HOSTED BY THE I*EARN ORILLAS CENTER
WHERE: PUERTO RICO
WHEN: July 11-17, 1999
THEME: "Language, Culture, and Equity through Global Learning Networks"
For more information, contact Enid Figueroa, Puerto Rico
efigueroa@orillas.upr.clu.edu
or Kristin Brown, USA krbrown@iearn.org. Information about the
conference
is also being posted on the newsgroup iearn.upr99 and at
http://orillas-web.upr.clu.edu/iearn/upr99i.html.
There will be a late registration fee of US $50 after May 1. Deadline for
workshop proposals: May 1.
I*EARN News Flashes!
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.
RUSSIAN INTER-REGIONAL CENTER: They will hold a conference for all
teachers
and students from Moscow and other regions of Russia at school # 689 in
order to
share their experience in I*EARN.
I*EARN-CANADA: Bill Belsey writes: Ullakut (oo-la-koot / hello)! On April
1st the world map as
we know it changed with the creation of Canada's newest territory, Nunavut
(noo-na-voot, which is
Inuktitut for "Our Land"). I would like to invite you all to visit my
"Countdown to Nunavut" project (
http://www.rockyview.ab.ca/bpeak/belsey/nunavut.html )... The Inuit people
have been dreaming
about this day for many years. Taima (ta-ee-ma / that's all for now).
I*EARN WEBSITE: is now getting about 52,000 hits per week! This is in
addition to the hits each of the
"national" pages receive.
CONGRATULATIONS ON TEACHING AWARD: NEITA (National Excellence in Teaching
Awards) in Australia selected Jo Tate of Ararat Community College as the
Government school finalist for the province Victoria.
Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings
(including resources that are not part of I*EARN)
THE PEOPLE PLACE: Have you checked your entry in the I*EARN People Place
Database to make
sure it's correct? You can find a link to the database on the WWW at:
www.iearn.org/databases.html
I*EARN-KYRGYZSTAN WEBSITE: Their new web site is now open at:
http://iearn.online.kg.
HAWAIIAN GLOBAL ART WEBSITE: www.punahou.edu/globalart/index.htm
AIN'T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE: Celia Einhorn suggests that you look at the
interesting articles at http://journal.jrsummit.net/servlet/pluto,
including; photos, other global projects, and an article by Celia,
"Women and Children, First! Successful solution to economy of poor
families."
SCHOOL TO WORK NEWS: Seeking professionals, to serve as correspondents
from
outside of the United States, who can contribute monthly articles on the
following topics within their region or country: Educational Trends and
techniques,
Workforce development, Workforce training. Please contact the editor at:
editor@stwnews.org
http://www.stwnews.org.
THE HUMANITARIAN PROJECT: (a component of The First
Peoples' Project) can be seen at: http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/human
COMFORT QUILT PROJECT : As part of the Global Art Sense of caring project,
students
in Washington State, USA made quilts to be distributed to hurricane
victims in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico
http://www.psd267.wednet.edu/~kfranz/home.htm.
Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators
TALKING ABOUT THE BALKANS: Join other I*EARN members around the world
discussing this important issue. In iearn.ventures there are two new
topics,
THE REFUGEE CRISIS ( where students can express their ideas on how the
world
can assist the refugees) and NATO's ROLE where students can express your
ideas
on the difficult role of NATO in Europe peace keeping). Students are also
discussing these issues in iearn.violence and iearn.youth.
ACCOUNTING FOR TEENAGE PREGNANCY: Join this project with the aim of
raising
awareness of teenage pregnancies and the responsibility
the costs involved. See this topic on iearn.ideas
HOW CAN WE HELP THE CHILDREN OF KOSOVO?
Add your voices to the discussion at UNICEF's Voices of Youth
http://www.unicef.org/voy/meeting/war/kosovo.html. Between 12 - 26 April
join youth activists and young people worldwide in creating a meaningful
dialogue.
This discussion supports the Hague Appeal for Peace Campaign 1999 and the
10th Anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
I*EARN-RELIGION: Join Students from Slovakia in a discussion about
religion.
Topics posted so far address religious diversity in Slovakia and Buddhism.
SURVEY: Two graduate students are seeking to measure how I*EARN
connections affect
students' feelings about working with other students. They write:
"Teachers, we need your help in analyzing the impact of I*EARN projects.
Please encourage all of your students to fill out our short and fun
survey--either web-based http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~wjbacer/survey or
via Email (send a blank message to: bacer-survey@us.iearn.org). Thanks for
your help."
I*EARN-FRANCAIS: Join discussions in French on topics including
Napoleon and the "war" in Serbia.
I*EARN-LATINA: Among others, a new project comparing educational
problems in Canada and Latin America is taking place in iearn.latina.
I*EARN-PORT: Join speakers of Portuguese in Portugal, Brazil and
Mozambique in the Portuguese language iearn.port.
I*EARN-POVERTY: Join students in Thailand, Uganda and
Bulgaria who are all discussing issues of poverty iearn.npoverty.
I*EARN-KIDSCAN: Join others who are currently participating in the
Local History, Children's Folk Games, Special Places and in Spanish,
the Rhymes and Guessing Games project.
GLOBAL ART SENSE OF CARING: The 1999 Global Art project "A Sense of
Caring".
Has started. Join schools from U.S., Australia, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Ecuador,
and Nicaragua. Because Northern hemisphere school years end in June,
please exchange your artwork and writing by the end of April.
If you would like to participate see iearn.globlart.
CONNECTING MATH TO OUR LIVES: See new entries about Math and Normal Life
on iearn.math.
There will also be an on-line guest , Neldy Bonilla of the University of
Puerto Rico. You are invited to join the discussion about math labs and
math standards.
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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