iEARN in Action, April 11, 2002

2002 iEARN CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. Register now! The DELEGATES menu item on the left brings you to the list of all registered participants.

LARGE IRANIAN DELEGATION TO ATTEND 2002 iEARN CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. Fereydoun Taslimi, Director of the The Science and Arts Foundation - USA, has notified iEARN that his foundation will sponsor 82 teachers from Iran to participate in the 2002 iEARN International Conference in Moscow in July! Teachers around the world wanting to work on projects with Iranian schools who have not yet registered for the conference, should do so immediately so that they can create personal relationships while in Moscow.

MARCH ONLINE TEACHER TRAINING COURSES. Our second series of online teacher training courses began on March 25. 58 teachers from Botswana, Brazil, Burundi, China, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Macedonia, Malaysia Nepal, Pakistan, Romania, Sierra Leone, Suriname, Uganda, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and the United States are participating in the 3 courses offered this series; Creative Writing, Social Studies/Contemporary Affairs/Geography and Science/Environment/ Math. The courses began with an "Orientation to Online Learning" developed by iEARN-Lebanon coordinator Eliane Metni http://www.emetni.com/orientation. For more information, see http://www.iearn.org/professional/online.html The next series will run October 2002.

CONGRATULATIONS TO TEACHERS RECOGNIZED IN GSN ONLINE SHARED LEARNING AWARD. Teachers who are working with iEARN received a number of honors. Karen Eini, Israel, received the highest award for her Friends and Flags Project http://www.friendsandflags.org. Sylvia Li, Taiwan, (former iEARN-Taiwan Coordinator) and Barry Kramer, USA, were among the 10 finalists. In addition, Karen, Sylvia, Mourad Benali (iEARN-Morocco Coordinator), Yue-Chane Hsing (iEARN teacher in Taiwan), and Mika Vanhanen, (Finland) have all been invited to serve as an International Review Board to judge Cyberfair finalist entries. Congratulations to all! See: http://www.gsn.org/cf/judges.html

Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators

For a full listing of iEARN projects, see iEARN.ideas.

CHILD ABUSE PROJECT. This project studies child abuse as a community problem, looking in detail at the definition of child abuse, causes, cases reported, and how it can be reduced. Contact Jubilee Tasha Rehema, Uganda . Forum: "Children's Rights/Child Abuse" (via newsreader:apc.iearn.rights) http://www.iearn.org/projects/childabuse.html

EDUCATING THE HEART. Share descriptions and digital photos of any service-learning activity that has been done or will be done in your school community. Contact Hugo Chacón, USA

FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS PROJECT. Join other youth in sharing views, researching the ill-effects of various drugs, and seeking solutions to fight this worldwide disease. Contact Sarah Alam, Pakistan and Udara Soysa , Sri Lanka . Forum: "Civics" (via newsreader:apc.iearn.civics) http://www.geocities.com/fight_drugs/fd.html

THE GREAT FLY OFF. Students compete to construct a paper plane from one sheet of A4 paper which is able to stay in the air for the longest time. Contact Elaine Robertson, Australia and see http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/greatflyoff/greatflyoff/

MODEL UNITED NATIONS AND IEARN. iEARN has partnered with United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and United Nations Cyberschoolbus to connect Model UN and iEARN participants. Model UN students would like to communicate with students in the countries they are representing to learn more about the culture, policies, and issues they are researching. Contact Losira Okelo, USA .

NEW STUDENT WRITING ON LEWIN WEBSITE. Read the new writing from students in Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Kazakhstan. There are also some great drawings from the students in Ukraine. http://www.iearn.org.au/lewin. We would love to have more writing from your students. It can be posted to the conference (or via the "Lewin" forum at http://foro.iearn.org/WebX?14@3@.ee70710)

POET'S CORNER. Students can express themselves creatively by writing a variety of poems every few weeks. Contact Elaine Robertson, Australia and see http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/poetry/poem.htm

TRADITIONAL MATHS GAMES IN SOCIETY. Interested? Contact Tommie Hamaluba in Botswana .

Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings (including resources that are not part of iEARN)

iEARN COORDINATOR IN MOROCCO, MOURAD BENALI, HAS ARTICLE PUBLISHED. See article, "An Education of Hope," in Spring 2002 issue of RELO Newsletter of U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia. Download a pdf version at: http://www.usembassy.state.gov/tunis/wwwhrelo.html

GEORGE LUCAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION "EDUTOPIA" NEWSLETTER FEATURES iEARN TEACHER, KRISTI RENNEBOHM FRANZ in "Rural Students Connect with the World." Download a pdf version of the the Spring 2002 issue: Global Understanding at http://www.glef.org/edutopia.html.

SEEKING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS. Siberian Intercultural Bridges, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting global awareness in remote regions of Siberia and the Russian Far East, is currently recruiting teachers of English language for positions in the region. We are committed to bringing iEARN curriculum into the regions we serve. See http://www.musicalbridges.org

Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!

DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION EXCHANGE PROGRAM (DEEP) EDUCATORS IN WASHINGTON, DC, USA. Educators from Kazakstan, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan and Poland are there planning CIVIC education projects with their US peers. See http://www.iearn.org/deep/ for more about the program and schedule of visits.

iEARN PROGRAM IN GEORGIA TO BE COORDINATED BY "SCHOOL-FAMILY-SOCIETY" ASSOCIATION. Paata Papava, iEARN coordinator in Georgia reports that a new workshop (supported by Open Society Georgia Foundation) for schools and youth organizations will be held on April 13-15, with Nina Dementievska from Ukraine as an invited trainer!

VALUE OF MONEY WORKSHOP APRIL 15 2002 IN JNANA PRABODHINI, PUNE, INDIA. Udara Soysa, an iEARN Coordinator in Sri-Lanka, will be coming to India for the workshop. http://www.geocities.com/vom2001in/index.html

IEARN CIVICS WORKSHOP TO BE HELD IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, APRIL 16-18, 2002. The workshop will be coordinated by Farah Kamal in conjunction with the US Embassy's Public Affairs Section. Please send greetings to the "CIVICS" Forum (via newsreader: apc.iearn.civics) or "Teachers" Lounge (via newsreader: apc.iearn.teachers). Reflections from participants in the recent April 2-4 workshop in Karachi can be read on the CIVICS forum.

YOUTHCAN ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS WILL BE TAKING PLACE IN APRIL, 2002 IN NEW YORK CITY, USA (APRIL 29TH), MIAMI, FLORIDA (APRIL 23RD), GRODNO, BELARUS AND TEXAS, USA. See http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan/

JOIN YOUTHCAN MED ON APRIL 29TH 2002 AT THE PLANET DISCOVERY IN BEIRUT, LEBANON. Teachers and students from Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Turkey, and Tunisia are invited to attend and/or present their environmental and social projects. The event will be linked through video conferencing with New York's YouthCaN event. Contact, iEARN - Lebanon coordinator, Eliane Metni .

2002 iEARN CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN MOSCOW, RUSSIA. See top of newsflash more more detail.

For Reference