News Flashes #85
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I*EARN Global School Calendar: Most Southern and Northern
Hemisphere schools are in session this month.
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ATTENTION TEACHERS IN GHANA, UGANDA, PALESTINE,
ZIMBABWE, AND PARAGUAY. We need brief stories from
you about how you have used this technology in your classes. We
would like to highlight your work in the Alliance for Global Learning
(AGL) Website http://www.global-learning.org. The AGL is a partnership
between WorLD, Schools Online and I*EARN. Please send your stories in
English, Espanol, Francais or Portuguese (and photos) to Shirin
at: shirinmm@hotmail.com. We also need people to translate stories
into/from Spanish, Portuguese, French. We have a small amount of funds
to help pay for these translations.
ADVICE FOR PUBLISHING WITH STUDENTS? US Author Chris Weber
is working on a manuscript for a book entitled "Publishing with Students"
scheduled for publication in August 2001. He is seeking tips/advice for
carrying out successful I*EARN publication projects. Please send 1-3 most
important bits of advice that you would share with a classroom teacher
about how to be successful in making and carrying out a successful
international publication projects. Chris Weber cweber@teleport.com.
CONGRATULATIONS TO I*EARN TEACHER KRISTI RENNEBOHM FRANZ,
recognized recently with a Milken Educator Award! The awards, the largest
teacher recognition program in the USA, are designed to recognize excellence
in America's elementary and secondary schools. For more information, see
http://www.mff.org.
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For a full listing of I*EARN projects, see iearn.ideas.
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EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET IN BRUSSELS LAUNCHES "myEUROPE" PROJECT.
http://myeurope.eun.org. Designed to develop activities and schools,
projects, encouraging students and teachers to make more visible their
schools, cities and countries through three main topics: European Young
Mobility, European Citizenship and Cultural Diversity. Welcome to join!
Please register your school at:
http://www.en.eun.org/myeurope/myeurope-schools/submitform.html.
CONNECTING MATH TO OUR LIVES PROJECT. "Connecting Math to
Our Lives" is an ongoing and active international project to explore how
math is used in our communities and how math can be used address issues
of social equity. Please register in October and join us now. All ages and
languages welcome! To join, write to us at orillas-math@igc.org or see iearn.math. http://equity4.clmer.csulb.edu/netshare/gdeklerk/gln/index.html.
"IF ROCKS COULD TALK...WHAT WOULD THEY TELL US?" PROJECT
SEEKS PARTNERS. A project to promote study of the environment and
sharing of experiences among students from various geographical regions.
Students will collect, classify and analyze different types of rocks
found in his/her community, describe the rock's formation and will
appreciate their surrounding in its natural state. Through the process
the students will create visual products (rocks), literary, and mathematics
(graphs) around the theme "rocks." For a complete description, contact
Enid Figueroa in Puerto Rico efigueroa@orillas.org.
LOCAL HISTORY WEBSITE. The local history website has been updated
to include submissions for this year. Schools are invited to participate in
the project which will continue until June 1st. 2001. See iearn.kidscan
under the subject heading, 'local history ' For more information contact
Margaert Shearn in Australia mshearn@netconnect.com.au. Website:
http://www.skiptonps.vic.edu.au/history.
FROM THE LAWS OF LIFE COORDINATOR. Many of you signed up
requesting additional information, teachers guides and books during
the International conference in Beijing, China. Unfortunately, the sign-up
sheet was taken off of the bulletin board early, and was never
received by the coordinator. If you would still like information about the
project, if you need a Teachers Guide or a Laws of Life Essay compilation
book, please contact Sarah Lucas lawsoflife@us.iearn.org. Also, if you
were a participating school, but have not received your complimentary copy
of the final book, please let Sarah know.
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/ | Check it out! Resources, Contests, Web Sites, Postings
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I*EARN ARTICLE IN GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER
http://glef25.glef.org/. Scroll down for a list of articles in the
issue.
NEW FROM WORLD WISE SCHOOLS. CyberVolunteer integrates technology,
encourages cultural diversity and promotes service learning.
Participating teachers will receive nine e-mails throughout the
school year; covering each of the regions Peace Corps serves.
Sign up online today! http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/cybervol.
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COMING | Upcoming Events!
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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH PARLIAMENT 2000 (IYP2000). Sydney, Australia,
October 19th to 28th, 2000. http://www.caa.org.au/parliament.
8th ANNUAL I*EARN CONFERENCE: "AFRICA CONNECTS: EDUCATION IN THE
INTERNET AGE"- July 9-14 2001 in Cape Town, South Africa at
the University of Cape Town. Organized by the Western Cape Schools
Network, SchoolNet SA, and I*EARN. Contact info@wcsn.wcape.school.za
or http://www.wcape.school.za/iearn/.
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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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TO SUBMIT AN ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR THE NEWSFLASH: Send your announcement (2-3 lines) to
newsflash@us.iearn.org. It should tell of project activity
and point to one of the I*EARN conferences.