News Flashes #75
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I*EARN Global School Calendar: Most Northern and Southern
Hemisphere schools are in session. A number of schools will be
on holiday from mid to late April.
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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!!!
A partial list of workshops to be presented at the conference
is at: http://www.iearn.org/china/workshops.html. If you
would like to present a workshop at the conference, please
include the title/topic of the workshop, a brief summary of
your presentation, any language assistance you might need, and
what kind of equipment you need during your presentation etc,
and send your letter to the following email address:
zy@mail.online.edu.cn.
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I*EARN-MACEDONIA LAUNCHES INDEPENDENT NGO, IMOR. I*EARN
Macedonia is now running as an NGO (assocation) called IMOR
(Internacionalna mreza za obrazovanie i resursi), which is the
Macedonian translation of I*EARN, and also has a new
self-owned sub-domain on the Internet.
http://www.imor.org.mk. Their first workshop as a NGO is
scheduled for April 21 - April 23. I*EARN-Macedonia
Coordinator, Jove Jankulovski jovej@freemail.org.mk.
NEAR EAST, NORTH AFRICA, SOUTH ASIA AND U.S. EXCHANGE AND
WORKSHOP. April 28-May 19. 13 teachers from Egypt, India,
Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be coming to New
York for a weekend workshop hosted by I*EARN-US, before they
travel on to Hawaii, Ohio, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Florida, California and Tennessee where they will be hosted by
I*EARN teachers. See iearn.civics to learn more about their
collaboration.
SEEKING VIDEOCONFERENCE PARTNERS FOR MAY 31, 2000!! Bronx
International Youth Conference (BIYC), New York, USA. Teens
will focus on global issues which students have to overcome to
achieve academic excellence in school. Please contact Ed
Gragert ed1@us.iearn.org in the USA if you would like to
participate in a video-conference on this day.
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For a full listing of I*EARN projects, see iearn.ideas.
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CELEBRATING OUR WOMEN PROJECT. Contribute stories of women who
have made a difference!!! Read stories such as that of Mrs.
Beatrice Lokko, the first woman to head the Accra Academy, an
all-boys institution in Ghana. Conference iearn.women.
Please add your voice by submitting materials by email to:
iearn.women@us.iearn.org.
ONE DAY PROJECT. Students share stories of a day in their
lives. New project webpage:
http://www.telar.org/proyectos/oneday. Coordinator: Dario
Pinus in Argentina dpinus@teletel.com.ar. Conference:
iearn.oneday.
OUR BABY PROJECT. Students describe through the use of arts,
photographs and words the birth ceremony of a new-born baby in
their localities and various cultural and religious groups.
Project Timeline: June 1st 2000-December 31st 2001 Contact
Chris Kwei ckwei@wass.worldgh.net in Ghana.
SCHOOL FOR STREET CHILDREN. Students at Headstart School in
Pakistan are launching a School For Street Children this
summer. The school will be managed by the students themselves,
who are currently designing a curriculum for the children. Sehr
Hussain, Student Counselor at the school, writes, "I believe
that this i*earn project will be a great opportunity for all
of us here at Headstart,to share our experiences with other
students around the world and we welcome your views and input."
Conference: iearn.npoverty. Contact: Sehr Hussain in
Pakistan heads2@comsats.net.pk.
STAR OF HOPE PROJECT. In China, over 2,000,000 rural students
cannot go to school unless they have financial assistance. In
this project, participants work to provide scholarships that
will give the opportunity to Chinese students to go to school
and have these students participate and share their experiences
in I*EARN. To get involved, see iearn.china or write
directly to one of the project facilitators, Chenglan
chenglan@cheng.com.cn.
STOP VIOLENCE PROJECT. Share your thoughts on such issues as
Capital Punishment, Animal Cruelty, Violence in School, The
Taliban's War on Women, Violence in Games, Police Brutality
Peer Pressure, and Bullying. Conference: iearn.violence or
contact Lisa Jobson in the USA ljobson@us.iearn.org.
A VISION POETRY ANTHOLOGY. Read contributions such as "MOTHER
AFRICA," and "THE MOON" from students in Pakistan and Ghana,
and share your own poems! Conference: iearn.vision.
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/ | Check it out! Resources, Contests, Web Sites, Postings
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ENGLISH TO GO. User friendly teaching materials and free
weekly lessons resource at http://www.english-to-go.com.
Suggested by I*EARN teacher Nina Koptyug in Russia,
koptyug@tomo.nsc.ru.
HOME PAGE FOR AL-KRMEL SCHOOL. See the home page of a
Palestinian school active in I*EARN - "Al-Krmel School.
http://go.to/krmel. "NOTE: it is in Arabic language."
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COMING | Upcoming Events!
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YOUTH CAN 2000 CONFERENCE: May 1, 2000. Theme: "The Year of
Enlightenment." Hundreds of students from Colorado, Florida,
and New York will gather at the The American Museum of Natural
History to share their environmental project work. Through the
use of telecommunications, students and teachers from the Czech
Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan,
Uganda, Australia, Slovakia, Belarus and Washington State will
also participate. youthcan@iearn.org
http://www.iearn.org/projects/youthcan.html.
I*EARN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH ECOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. May 4-7
2000. To be held in Poland. Expecting 40 participants from 6
countries. Come to visit us in Hel. Contact Andrzej Litwin
alitwin@ids.gda.pl or Renata Witucka rwitucka@ids.gda.pl.
CEE (Central/Eastern Europe) YOUTH SUMMIT. Cluj Napoca,
Romania, between 24-28 of May 2000. Three students, a teacher
and the coordinator from each CEE countries are invited to
participate as well as from the countries that have recently
entered our I*EARN family: Serbia, Bosnia, Hercegovina,
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Greece. Please confirm
your participation the soonest possible to Nelly Platon in
Romania nelly@lcjdap.soroscj.ro.
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.
I*EARN 7TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS' CONFERENCE I*EARN
4TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT: See beginning of
newsflash for more information.
I*EARN BALTIC ART CAMP 2000. To be held in Lithuania, Plunge
from 31 July to 4 August. The camp will mainly focus on
graffiti, installation and sculpture. We are expecting around 60
participants. For more information, contact Daina Valanciene
Daina@pub.osf.lt or Irena Latakiene Irena@juc.plun.soros.lt
in Lithuania.
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FOR REFERENCE!
* Past Newsflashes are saved in the Newsgroup: iearn.news.
* Spanish translations are also available on: iearn.latina.
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http://www.iearn.org/newsflash.html.
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