News Flashes - #73
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I*EARN CALENDAR: Most schools are in session except Japan,
whose school year begins again in the second week of April.
Schools in Ghana are also closed and will re-open April 25.
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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/
Register online at
http://www.iearn.org/registration.htm
PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!
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REMINDER: PLEASE DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS TO THE I*EARN
CONFERENCES! They do not translate across the many networks
involved, and are unreadable by most.
CONTRIBUTE TO I*EARN'S NEWSLETTER "INTERACTION." Send news of
I*EARN activities in your country or in your school, or
personal experiences in I*EARN which you think should be
shared. Articles should be no more than 400 words. You can
also send images (preferably as jpeg). Send contributions via
email or as a Word attachment to Bob Carter in Australia
bob@iearn.org.au no later than the end of April. (The last
issue can be seen at http://www.iearn.org.au/interaction/)
FIRST I*EARN WORKSHOP IN BOSNIA AND HARCEGOVINA. This Saturday,
March 25, Bosnian teachers, as well as teachers from Slovenia
and Serbia, will meet in Sarajevo. The workshop is organized
by Alma Zecevic at the Teachers School in Sarajevo. Send
welcome messages to iearn.teachers, Subject: Teachers
Workshop in Sarajevo, or to Teachers Club
ucitelj@uco.soros.org.ba.
I*EARN TRAINING IN JAMAICA. A recent teacher training
workshop in Jamaica, sponsored by the Ministry of Education and
the Jamaican Residents Association of New York, brought new
Jamaican teachers and students into I*EARN. Welcome! See
http://www.iearn.org/jamaica/edu2000.html and
http://www.iearn.org/jamaica/workshop.html for more detail.
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For a full listing of I*EARN projects, see iearn.ideas.
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THE BULLYING PROJECT http://www.bullying.org Submissions of
writing and images about the way children perceive the issues
of bullying and teasing are now being accepted to be posted and
shared. Please send submissions to William Belsey, The Bullying
Project Coordinator at bill@iearn-canada.org This is a
project of IEARN-Canada http://www.iearn-canada.org.
"CELEBRATING OUR WOMEN." A new project on I*EARN that can be
viewed at iearn.women. Please add your voice by submitting
materials by email to: iearn.women@us.iearn.org until the
conference is officially open.
KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS. I am trying to start a database/website
for Kindergarten teachers with ideas for Art, Music, Language
Arts, Math, Classroom Design, Games, Books, etc. Please send
ideas, lessons, books, etc. that you would like to share with
other Kindergarten teachers to Lorelei Bibler, USA
daslorelei@linkline.com.
ME AND MY PET PROJECT. Do you have a pet, or would you like to
have one? Write about it and share your story with students in
iearn.kidscan, Subject: Me and My pet. For more information,
contact Florina Serbu in Romania florina@lefo.ro.
STAR OF HOPE PROJECT. In China, over 2,000,000 rural students
cannot go to school unless they have financial assistance.
Help students in rural China to return to school. We encourage
people from every corner of the world to join. Contact Subude,
I*EARN-China Coordinator subude@cenpok.net or see
http://www.iearn.org/projects/hope.html. Conference:
iearn.china.
A VISION POETRY ANTHOLOGY. Read and respond to recent
contributions by students in Romania, Ghana, Lebanon and
Pakistan. And, of course, share your own poems for others to
read! iearn.vision.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT HUNTING? Share your thoughts in a
discussion started by a group of eighth graders at Adma
International School in Lebanon in iearn.environ Subject: "To
anti hunters everywhere" or "Grade 8 "Anti"-Hunting Project."
Additonal topics include Planting Trees, Deforestation, the
Greenhouse Effect, and more!
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NEW WEB TUTORIAL AVAILABLE.
http://www.geocities.com/pnacheva/ Thanks to Pepa Nacheva
nacheva@mail.vega.bg in Bulgaria for creating this resource!
PAINTING OUR PLANET CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ROMANIA.
http://geocities.com/Athens/Styx/6504/painting/
Thanks Petru Dumitru in Romania petrud@estcomp.ro!
NEW I*EARN LITHUANIA WEBPAGE.
http://internet.unib.ktu.lt/iearn/.
CHAPBOOKS PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY FOR I*EARN CLASSROOMS. A way
for additional I*EARN collaborative project work to be
published in book form!! This program awards small grants to
primary and secondary school teachers to publish student
writing in a paperback book through "Chapbooks.com." These
grants of $160 cover the production and shipping costs (within
the U.S.) for 30 copies of a short book. The grants are
available to teachers from any country. There is a good chance
you will get the grant if you apply, but the DEADLINE IS APRIL
15, 2000. For more information, send a blank message to
chapbooks@us.iearn.org for an automated response.
GLOBAL JUNIOR CHALLENGE. A world-wide award for the best
information technology projects in the field of education. See
HTTP://WWW.GJC.COMUNE.ROMA.IT for further information.
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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 The purpose is to discuss issues related to the
pedagogical implementation of ICT in the classroom and other
educational contexts. Language of the conference: Spanish.
See more in iearn.latina or at http://www.telar.org Contact
Daniel Zappal danielz@telar.org cc: latina@telar.org.
"AGENDA 21 NOW!" An internet conference for students and
groups of students aged 14+ all over the world. It takes place
on June 5, 2000, from 00:00 to 24:00 hours World Time (U.T.C.),
on the International Day of Environment.
http://www.agenda21now.de.
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 CONSORTIUM 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. 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!
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I*EARN conferences.