iEARN in Action, May 2, 2001

CONTRIBUTE TO 2001 I*EARN "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. The deadline for submissions was May 1st, however, we will be accepting submissions until early next week (May 10th).

I*EARN PROJECTS RECOGNIZED AT CABLE AND WIRELESS INTERNATIONAL CHILDNET AWARDS. The ChildNet awards go to projects that make the Internet a better place for children. I*EARN - CANADA was recognized for The Bullying Project, www.bullying.org, and The Smile Train - USA was recognized for the Cleft Buddy Project both in the charity/not for profit section, Bela 3rd Grammar School was recognized in the school category, and Maria Monica Dumitru-Nistor in the individual category. Congratulations to all! See http://www.childnet-int.org/awards/press/index.html for more information.

AUSTRALIAN POSTAL SERVICE FEATURES STAMP WITH FIRST PEOPLES' PROJECT ARTWORK. Australia Post (The Australian national postal service) released a prepaid stamped envelope series featuring art work of Australian participants in The First Peoples' Project. To see the stamps, visit: http://www.2.auspost.com.au/stamps/index.asp?link_id=1.352 and http://www.2.auspost.com.au/stamps/index.asp?link_id=2.374 . For more about the First Peoples' Project, see http://www.iearn.org.au/fp/ .

Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators

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

CHILD LABOR PROJECT. I*EARN members are urged to support the efforts of the students and teachers of Warren Middle and Central Schools in their Proclamation on child labor and their efforts to provide education opportunities for child laborers through the Free the Children organization. Warren's efforts, part of the I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour Project, consist of the adoption of a Proclamation on Child Labor by their local authority, the Township of Warren, and the raising of funds to create/support schools. For more details and for advice on how your school and community can support this initiative see iearn.projects and iearn.teachers : Proclamation on Child Labor or the Child Labour Project site at http://www.iearn.org.au/clp.

VALUE OF MONEY PROJECT. Started and moderated by a team of young people ages 16-18 from India and Bulgaria, Sri Lanka. The aim of this project is to help young people understand the value of money in their life. See http://www.geocities.com/vom2001in/ram/index.html for the latest updates on the Value of Money - sale held in Jnana Prabodhini Nigdi, in India. 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)

NEW iearn.dutch FORUM FOR DUTCH SPEAKERS. Join other Dutch speakers in a new forum launched at the recent I*EARN workshops in Suriname! Activities of the workshops can be seen at http://www.iearn.org/globe/suriname/.

NEW iearn.hangul FORUM FOR KOREAN SPEAKERS. Join other Korean speakers in the new iearn.hangul forum launched along with a new website in Korean. See http://www.columbia.edu/%7Eyc472/IEARN/index.html.

KINDRED PROJECT POSTS WEBSITE UPDATES. See http://www.iearn.org.au/kindred.

IEARN PROJECT DESCRIPTION BOOKLET NOW IN SPANISH!! I*EARN Project Description Booklet updated is now available in Spanish! I*EARN Latina (Red Telar, I*EARN-Pangea and Orillas) has been in charge of the translation. You will find it in zipped format at: http://pangea.org/iearn/folleto_latino.zip.

Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!

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

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. Or, you can receive a registration form as an automated reply by writing to registration@us.iearn.org. 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.