iEARN in Action, April 4, 2001

CONTRIBUTE TO 2001 iEARN "INTERACTION" NEWSLETTER!!! http://www.iearn.org.au/interaction/. Send news and/or images of I*EARN activities in your country or school to Aaron at interaction@us.iearn.org by May 1st, 2001. If you are planning to submit or would be interested in helping translate the newsletter into other languages, please let him know soon so that he can begin coordinating submissions.

GEMS PROGRAM UPDATE. During February and March 2001, a number of Internet Learning Centers (ILCs) were installed in the GEMS countries. Teachers and students have been trained and GEMS schools' web sites are now underway. See http://www.iearn.org/gemsreport/ .

Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators

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

CREATING CROSSWORD PUZZLES IN ENGLISH. The aim of the project: To practice the vocabulary at a certain language level and to create a booklet usable in English teaching. People willing to participate in this project may obtain more information from WWW pages of Czech I*EARN http://www.iearn.cz/krizovky or they may write an e-mail to the coordinator of this project- Elena Tomanova.

LEWIN - AN ANTHOLOGY OF STUDENT WRITING. Would you like your students to contribute to Lewin 2001? Writing can be about any topic and in any format. Contributions can be sent to the conference, iearn.lewin or emailed to lewin@iearn.org.au. All contributing schools will receive copies of Lewin when it is published. The deadline for contributions is July 2001 We would love to have some writing from your students! Lewin lewin@iearn.org.au.

VALUE OF MONEY PROJECT. Started and moderated by a team of young people from India and Bulgaria in the age group 16 - 18 yrs. The Aim of this project is to help people understand the value of money in their life. See http://www.geocities.com/vom2001in/ram/index.html. You can also contact Maitreyi Doshi or Neli Georgiewa. You can send articles, poems, essays to Soujanya Shenoy or you can post them on iearn.money.

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

"BALKAN VOICES-ROMANIAN FOLKLORE" WEBSITE. http://www.lefo.ro/Voices/Balkan/intrare.htm Thank you to Florina Serbu in Romania!

eSchola WEBSITE ONLINE. http://eschola.eun.org

Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!

YOUTHCAN ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE. April 30, 2001, New York City, USA. Students facilitate an online network of students using telecommunications technologies to undertake and/or share environmental work locally and around the world. See or http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan/.

ESCHOLA EVENT. May 7-11, 2001. Schools throughout Europe are invited to take part in ‘eSchola – learning together’– a week for eLearning in Europe to demonstrate the potential of ICT in the classroom. http://eschola.eun.org

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AFRICA CONNECTS/I*EARN CONFERENCE - REGISTER NOW! 8th Annual I*EARN Conference- Capetown, South Africa. - 8th July 2001 -14th July 2001. Contact info@ac.wcape.school.za or http://ac.wcape.school.za to register. The conference will be hosted by the Western Cape Schools' Network and SchoolNet SA, in conjunction with their annual educational computing conference (July 10-13). Participation is open to all educators who are share an interest in enhanced learning through on-line project-based learning.

AFRICA CONNECTS is sponsored by MWeb and Microsoft SA. Call for Presentations/Workshops: Please register and submit workshop proposals on the conference web site at http://ac.wcape.school.za. Contact prog@ac.wcape.school.za if there are questions about the process for submitting workshop proposals. Selected Presenters will be notified as soon as possible, but no later than June 15.

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