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iEARN
in Action, May 11, 2006
Featured Quote!
"I
hope I can call myself a graduate of iEARN. It has truly impacted
my life. I joined in high school... iEARN changed my perspective
towards things -- when there was a situation, I looked at it in
terms of what I could do to help and not what I could do to gain.
My participation in iEARN enabled me to learn how to use computers
and enabled me to get my first job when I was out of school."
-
Jubilee
Rehema, iEARN Student Alumnus, Kampala, Uganda
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Special Announcements!
1. iEARN Annual
World Conference and Youth Summit, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2006.
Seeking Partners: iEARN Projects!
2. English teacher in Korea seeking EFL project partners.
3. English teacher in Morocco seeking partners.
4. My School, Your School Project launches new blog.
5. Second International iPeace Painting Award
6. Participate in the Poetry 4 Peace Program.
7. PEARL Project welcomes students from Israel and congratulates
reporter for winning essay competition.
Resources, Contests, Websites and Announcements!
8. Check
out the new iEARN-Palestine website.
9. Congratulations to iEARN partner projects, ENO-Environment Online
and Atlas of Diversity, both finalists in Stockholm Challenge!
10. TakingITGlobal seeking pilot testers for virtual classroom on
tobacco control.
Upcoming Events!
11. XPLORA Science
Teachers Conference, Geneva.
12. Knowledge for Global Classrooms 2006 International Summer Institute.
13. iEARN Annual World Conference and Youth Summit.
14. iEARN at NECC (National Educational Computing Conference) in
San Diego, USA.
15. iEARN-Asia and Pacific to hold first regional conference.
16. Role of ICT in Bridge-Building and Social Inclusion Conference.
17. Australian Computers in Education Conference.
Recent Events!
18. iEARN-Armenia
regional conference on environmental protection.
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Special Announcements
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1.
iEARN ANNUAL WORLD CONFERENCE AND YOUTH
SUMMIT IN ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS,
JULY 3-7, 2006! CONFERENCE
NEWS >> Countdown to July 3rd.
Only
37 days to the start of the 13th
iEARN World Conference in Enschede
Netherlands. The Conference committee is happy to announce
that already 300
participants and 120 Youth
Summit participants have
registered for the conference. Largest delegation till now is from
the USA. Together these participants already have submitted
130 workshop proposals, indicating that 'A Learning World’ is
the right motto indeed.
In the spotlight -- The start of the conference
is really approaching now. The Conference Committee is working
at full speed. Just some highlights we want to share:
- We invited the Dutch minister of Education and Science to open
the conference on Monday and she accepted our invitation..
- The Program Committee went through all the proposed presentations
and workshops, accepted most of them and put them into the framework
of the programme. As soon as the program is (almost) final, the
program will be published on the website www.iearn2006.nl.
- The Organising Committee has set up a wonderful program for the
excursions on Wednesday. All registered participants have received
an e-mail with details for subscribing to the excursions: school
visits and tourist visits.
- The Youth Summit Group has developed a program, that is very
challenging and special! They face the problem of (too) many participants
and have been forced to introduce a waiting list. We are trying
to solve this and we hope to inform you soon about the possible
solutions. We try to make it possible for all the youth, who have
registered so far, to attends the summit.
- The students from Waerdenborch school in Holten Netherlands have
announced the winning team that made an excellent contribution
to their The Legend of the Seven Seas: we welcome Linda from no2
Middle School in Huhhot, Inner Mongolia, China. Linda will be enabled
to attend the Youth Summit. Congratulations!!
- The registration office (CAT, Danielle Laarman, Cat@cat.utwente.nl)
is doing a wonderful job for all participants who have particular
questions concerning their visa, registration, accommodation, payment,
etc.
We are all looking forward to having you here in the Netherlands.
Two new forums have been created for discussions of the 2006
iEARN Conference and Youth Summit:
2006 iEARN Conference Discussion
2006 iEARN Youth Summit
July 3-7 2006, be there!
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Seeking Partners: iEARN Projects
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2. ENGLISH TEACHER IN SEOUL, KOREA
LOOKING FOR EFL PROJECT PARTNER. "I
plan to use the My Country/Breaking Stereotypes Project for my
students to introduce Korea to their peers abroad. This project
is part of my PhD and I will use one class as a control group
which will do EFL without iEARN. Would you like to join me to
demonstrate how iEARN helps both EFL and identify awareness?
This project would begin in early September and end in December." Contact
Warren Chung.
3. ENGLISH TEACHER IN MOROCCO SEEKING PARTNERS. "I'm
a teacher of English in a middle school in Morroco, looking for
opportunities for my students to practise the language. If there's
any teacher who wants to collaborate with me, he/she will be
mostly welcome. Contact Loubna Zohra Aissaoui in
Berkane, Morocco
4. MY SCHOOL, YOUR SCHOOL PROJECT. Check out
the project's new blog here.
For more information about the project, contact Silvana Carnicero <silvanacar01@yahoo.com.ar> in
Argentina, or click here.
 5. SECOND INTERNATIONAL iPEACE PAINTING AWARD HELD BY
MAMEA GROUP. Everyone is welcome to join. All participants
will receive a certificate and best paintings will be awarded
in the coming
iEARN conference in the Netherlands and will be shown in a painting
Exhibition there. For more, click here.
 6.
PARTICIPATE IN THE POETRY 4 PEACE PROGRAM RUN BY MAMEA GROUP FROM
IRAN. Share your poems on peace, love, friendship, war
and other interesting topics with your friends. The best poems
will be shown
in the coming iEARN conference in the Netherlands. See http://ict-club.schoolnet.ir/p4p
 7.
PEARL PROJECT WELCOMES STUDENTS FROM ISRAEL AND CONGRATULATES REPORTER
FOR WINNING ESSAY COMPETITION. Students from 14 classes
in Israel have started the reporter certification course to become
PEARL Reporters. The project is being supported by the Students'
Rights Division in the Ministry of Education. In Uzbekistan, PEARL
Reporter Yaroslav Ovcharenko has won the "2006 Global Issues
English Language Essay Competition" sponsored by the Regional
English Language Office of the US States Embassy. He writes: "Your
online course and news stories helped me a lot." For more
information on the PEARL project, please visit http://www.iearn.org/pearlproject/
or write to Anindita Dutta Roy.
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Check it Out! Resources, Contests, Websites, Announcements.
(This includes resources that are not part of iEARN)
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8.
CHECK OUT THE NEW iEARN-PALESTINE WEBSITE! http://www.iearn.org/palestine
9. CONGRATULATIONS TO iEARN PARTNER PROJECTS, ENO-ENVIRONMENT
ONLINE AND ATLAS OF DIVERSITY, BOTH FINALISTS IN STOCKHOLM
CHALLENGE! .
Atlas of Diversity ()
and ENO - Environment
Online.
10. TAKINGITGLOBAL SEEKING PILOT TESTERS FOR ITS TIGed
VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ON TOBACCO CONTROL. Developed in partnership with TeenNet
at the
University of Toronto, the class can be completed in four class
sessions, and will introduce students to some of the global issues
surrounding
the tobacco industry, and the global impact of their choices. To
learn more and access the teacher toolkit: www.tiged.org/tobacco.
Teachers who pilot these resources in their classrooms and participate
in a follow up interview with the TeenNet research team will be
eligible for a small honorarium. Contact education@takingitglobal.org.
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Upcoming Events
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11. XPLORA SCIENCE TEACHERS CONFERENCE, GENEVA, JUNE 15-18. Xplora, within the Pencil Project, is organising a science teachers
conference at CERN, Geneva. The conference will focus on open
source and ICT in science education, science teaching approaches,
the role of science centres in education and more. Workshops
with practical activities for science teachers will be an essential
part of the Conference. Science teachers from all around Europe
are welcome! See http://www.xplora.org.
12.
KNOWLEDGE FOR GLOBAL CLASSROOMS 2006 INTERNATIONAL SUMMER INSTITUTE,
UNIVERSITY
OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, USA, JUNE 18-23. Theme:
People, Places, and Patterns: Teaching World Geographies & Cultures.
See here or
contact Jamie McGowan.
13. JOIN US AT THE 2006 iEARN ANNUAL WORLD CONFERENCE
AND YOUTH SUMMIT IN ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS, JULY 3-7! See
top of News Flash for details.
14.
iEARN AT NECC (NATIONAL
EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONFERENCE) IN SAN DIEGO,
USA, JULY 4-7. iEARN-USA and Orillas will be hosting
many sessions, as well as the NECC International Reception on
July 4. Presenters
from Australia, Canada, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, The Netherlands,
Pakistan, Russia, Taiwan, and Trinidad and Tobago will join by
video conference from the iEARN Annual Conference in Enschede,
The Netherlands. A list of iEARN events at the conference can
be found here.
 15.
iEARN-ASIA AND PACIFIC TO HOLD FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE, AUGUST
1-3, NATIONAL MUSEUM OF EMERGING SCIENCE AND INNOVATION. Theme: "How
to Initiate Collaborative Interactive Learning in iEARN-Asia." 20
countries in Asia Pacific will be represented. For more info
click here.
16.
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ROLE OF ICT IN BRIDGE-BUILDING
AND SOCIAL INCLUSION CONFERENCE, NORTHERN IRELAND, SEPTEMBER
10-16. Further details here.
17.
AUSTRALIAN COMPUTERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE (ACEC), CAIRNS,
FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND,
OCTOBER 2-4. Organised by iEARN Australia and the Asia
Education Foundation. If any iEARN members are interested in
attending
or presenting, contact iEARN Australia iearnoz@iearn.org.au.
For details, see http://www.acec2006.info
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Recent Events
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18.
iEARN-ARMENIA HELD REGIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION,
MAY 18. The
main topics of the conference were a) studying and
protecting the environment as part of the YouthCaN project under
the topic "Global Warming" (booklet in production); b)
results of iEARN-Armenian spring action (February-May): "Keep
clear the environment in your school, region, city," which
included trees planting, land improvement, workshops, discussions,
and familiarization with the legislative acts on this theme etc.
c) results of discussion "Is it necessary to study environmental
literacy at schools?" can be found on the "Nature
through the Eyes of Generations" Forum .
For more about iEARN-Armenia, see http://www.iearn.childlib.am/.
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Reference
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iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a
global non-profit network that empowers teachers and students
to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution
to the health and welfare of the planet and its people. Started
in 1988, iEARN is currently active in over 120 countries, with
1,000,000 students participating as part of their education.
iEARN-International: http://www.iearn.org
Download the 2005-2006 iEARN Project Book: http://www.iearn.org/projects/projectbook.html (available in Arabic, English, French, and Japanese) or for
a full listing of iEARN projects, see: http://www.iearn.org/projects/
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