News Flashes - #72
From iearn@us.iearn.org Wed Apr 5 13:46:40 2000
Date: 07 Mar 2000 13:46:49
From: iearn@us.iearn.org
Reply-To: International Education and Resource Network iearn@igc.apc.org
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Newsgroups: iearn.news
Subject: I*EARN in Action: Newsflash #72
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I*EARN Global School Calendar: Most Northern and Southern
schools are in session this month.
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PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO THAT A ROOM
CAN BE RESERVED FOR YOU !!!
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I*EARN 7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS' CONFERENCE
I*EARN 4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT
"Sharing and Understanding:
Tele-Education in the 21st Century"
July 10-16, 2000, Beijing, China
http://www.iearn.online.edu.cn/
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The seventh I*EARN conference will provide opportunities for
participants to interact with educators from all over the
world. More details available at
http://www.iearn.online.edu.cn/. Register online at
http://www.iearn.org/registration.htm.
WORKSHOP PRESENTERS: If you already know what workshops you
want to give during the conference,include the topic, the brief
summary of your presentation and what kind of equipment you
need during your presentation etc. Please be sure to send your
letter to both of the following email addresses:
zy@mail.online.edu.cn and iearn@email.eng.cnu.edu.cn. If
you need to send snail mail (air mail), please send it to:
Subude, I*EARN- China Zhong Guan Chun Post Office Box 106#
Haidian District, Beijing, 100080, China.
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NOTE FROM SUBUDE, I*EARN-China Coordinator. My ISP is
installing a more advanced server system and I can not use my
email account subude@cenpok.net for a week. Please write me
at zy@mail.online.edu.cn if you are writing me e-mails between
March 6 - March 14 2000.
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For a full listing of I*EARN projects, see iearn.ideas.
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CHILDREN'S FOLK GAMES 2000 PROJECT. The project will be ending
on March 31st. Please, send all your contributions before this
date to iearn.kidscan "Subject: Children's Folk Games 2000"
so that they might be included in the project web page.
Coordinator: Petru Dumitru in Romania petrud@estcomp.ro.
THE KINDRED PROJECT. Join others in sharing stories and
pictures from the oral histories of your families during the
twentieth century. Contact Judy Barr In Australia
judybarr@iearn.org.au or join in at iearn.family.
http://www.iearn.org.au/kindred/.
LAWS OF LIFE ESSAY PROJECT. Join in discussion and sharing on
iearn.values with young people from the USA, India, Russia,
Bulgaria, Romania, Australia, Thailand, Ghana, Mongolia, and
more about the values they treasure most. Contact Sarah Lucas
slucas@us.iearn.org in the USA for more information, or see
http://www.iearn.org/projects/laws.html.
RACE AGAINST RACISM 2000 PROJECT. Call for participation
Join this race and show the WORLD radiance of ALL COLOURS.
Express your interest on iearn.tolerance or e-mail
vgkane@alphalink.com.au. Project URL (soon to be updated)
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~vgkane/Racism1.html.
THE SOUND OF MUSIC PROJECT. Is Japanese music a trend? Are
singers famous by their voices or their looks? When you listen
to music, you do not listen with your ears, but with your
heart? Share your thoughts on iearn.music.
ST. VALENTINE'S PROJECT "LET'S LOVE AND BE LOVED." The second
stage in the project work is starting! See St. Valentine's
Day web site http://internet.unib.ktu.lt/valentine/.
Contributions are welcome until June 1. Contact Gintare
Tautkeviciene gitaut@org.ktu.lt or Daina Valanciene
Daina@pub.osf.lt in Lithuania.
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE 20th CENTURY PROJECT. Share your opinion
about the most positive or useful, and the most shameful things
mankind experienced in the 20th century. Contact Natalia
Petriaeva in Belarus children@exchange.belpak.grodno.by.
"VOTE" (VOices of The Earth)-OKINAWA SUMMIT PROJECT. See
messages from all over the world at
http://www.kids-space.org/VOTE/forum.html All I*EARN students
are welcome to participate! Before sending messages, enter
http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-s/vote/index.html. If you have any
questions, please contact to I*EARN-Japan
teleclas@mbd.sphere.ne.jp.
WASTE - PROBLEM OR POSSIBILITY? In this project students will
investigate how waste is produced and the ways in which we deal
with it: combining different methods: collecting data,
interviewing, research etc. Contact Mimoza
Anastoska-Jankulovska, jankmj@mt.net.mk in Macedonia for more
information.
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/ | Check it out! Resources, Contests, Web Sites, Postings
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LEARNING CIRCLE NEWS. First EXPO 2000 Learning Circle done by
Hans G. Henkel and students from Robert-Bosch-Gesamtschule,
Hildesheim, Germany:
http://www.robert-bosch-gesamtschule.de/expo_lc1/index.htm
"Millennium Stories" by Barry Kramer and students in CCE1:
http://www.csnet.net/coalition/fourthgrade/lc.fall99/millennium.title.html.
For more information about Learning Circles
www.iearn.org/circles.
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COMING | Upcoming Events!
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FIRST I*EARN LATINA MEETING. http://www.telar.org/enclat.htm
"The Information and Communication Networks in the Education
for a New Century" Mar del Plata - Argentina - April, 18-20,
2000 We invite you to participate in the First I*EARN Latina
meeting, whose main purpose is to discuss issues related to
the pedagogical implementation of the Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) in the classroom and other
educational contexts. Language of the conference: Spanish.
See more in iearn.latina or at www.telar.org Contact Daniel
Zappalˇ danielz@telar.org cc: latina@telar.org.
EUROPEAN I*EARN ART CAMP 2000. Dates not finalized, but most
possible is June 24, 25th to June 30th. This year's focus: folk
art activities and experience folk pottery, felting, etc. See
http://www.bajabela.sulinet.hu/tubi/iearn/artcamp/artcamp2.htm.
For more information, contact Zsuzsa Tubakos in Hungary,
tubi@bajabela.sulinet.hu.
PACIFIC BASIN COSORTIUM CONFERENCE. July 30 - August 2, 2000,
Honolulu, Hawaii. "Intercultural Partnerships for Effective
Teaching and Learning", will be profiling 3 regions -- Oceania,
Southeast Asia, and Latin America -- showcasing comparative
curriculum workshops. See http://www.hais.org/pbc/.
I*EARN 7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS' CONFERENCE I*EARN
4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT: See beginning of
newsflash for more information.
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FOR REFERENCE!
* Past Newsflashes are saved in the Newsgroup: iearn.news.
* Spanish translations are also available on: iearn.latina.
* WWW Newsflashes at:
http://www.iearn.org/newsflash.html.
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It should tell of project activity and point to one of the
I*EARN conferences.