Most Northern and Southern Hemisphere schools are in session. A number of schools will be on holiday from mid to late April.
FIFTH ANNUAL I*EARN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
SECOND ANNUAL I*EARN INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SUMMIT
WHERE: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
WHEN: July 12-18, 1998
THEME: Linking Communities to Make a Difference
For more info, write to <Chattanooga@copenfund.igc.apc.org> or visit <http://www.iearn.org/iearn/Chattanooga98.html>. Workshop descriptions and updated information will be added on a regular basis.
Register by May 1. Cost, including conference fee, room, and 3 meals a day for six days total is $450.
To submit a workshop proposal for the conference, write to <conf98@copenfund.igc.apc.org> with the Name(s)/Country Origin(s) of Presenter(s),Title of Workshop, Description (approximately one page), Outline of Workshop (approximately one page),and Technology Needs. Proposals are due by April 20.
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AN END TO INTOLERANCE: Orders are now being taken for the May issue of the Holocaust/Genocide Project global, student magazine! Write to: <coldspring@iearn.org> to find out prices and shipping costs.
FACES OF WAR HONORED WITH AWARD: The project recently won one of only two service awards in 1998 from The Department of Veteran Affairs Australia. For snapshots of the ceremony, see <http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/fow/Serviceaward/award.html>.
SHARING I*EARN PROJECT WORK: We are looking for groups of I*EARN schools working on small e-mail based projects. Even if you do not work through I*EARN conferences, you can still share your projects with the larger community. If you have never registered your project, please complete a project template available on <iearn.ideas>, or register on the web at <http://www.iearn.org/databases.html>. Write to <password@copenfund.igc.apc.org> if you don't know the database passwords. Also, by including copies (cc's) of your e-mails to a relevant conference address, others can more easily know of, and get involved in, all the wonderful, but often hidden project work across the network. Please write to Lisa Jobson at <ljobson@iearn.org> for help in sharing your project work.
PROJECTNEAT: I*EARN-USA is working with ProjectNet to increase access to Internet resources among schools internationally. ProjectNeat donates Internet equipment to schools that would not otherwise have classroom access. I*EARN Coordinators in 15 countries are identifying schools to receive this equipment under an initial pilot collaboration between I*EARN-USA and ProjectNeat: <http://www.projectneat.org/>.
ARTICLES NEEDED: Articles are needed from teachers around the I*EARN Network for the "Journal of Online Learning." Ed Gragert in I*EARN-USA has been named as an Associate Editor of this Journal and I*EARN has the opportunity to put an article in *each* issue. Of particular interest are articles which describe how classroom learning and teaching have been impacted in general and in your specific curricular area by I*EARN project work. Please send your article (in English) to <ed1@iearn.org>. Deadline for the next issue: April 20.
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Fight Against Child Labor and Exploitation Project: <http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/marches/>
Folk Costumes Around the Globe: <http://lcjdap.soroscj.ro/projects/iearn/fcatg/>
The First People's Project: <http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/fp/>
Periodicals, Books, Reports, and Videos on I*EARN: <http://www.iearn.org/references.html>
WWW Guide for I*EARN Participants (Netscape and Internet Explorer): <http://www.iearn.org/iearn/wwwguide/wwwguide.html>
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PROYECTO AGUA ESTAS/PROTECT THIS WATER: Explore how your school can create real solutions to local water problems. <iearn.latina>
NEW <IEARN.FRANCAIS> CONFERENCE: A new conference exists for French-speaking I*EARN members to converse and collaborate on projects in French. Write to Simeon Garrison at <simeon@copenfund.igc.apc.org> or see <iearn.francais>.
RACING AGAINST RACISM: Calling for participation for the sub theme of this project for 1998: 'Value, articulate and embrace differences to make a difference." Respond to this topic on <iearn.teachers>.
DEATH PENALTY DISCUSSION: If you want to share opinions about the death penalty (capital punishment) with students in Kyrgyzstan see this topic on <iearn.teachers> and <iearn.youth>.
KINDRED: A new project based in Australia invites primary and secondary students to investigate the oral histories of their families. Stories will be compiled into a book called Kindred after December 1, 1998. For details, see <iearn.ideas>.
BEAUTY OF THE BEASTS: The deadline has been extended until May 20th for sharing poetry and artwork for a mural to be displayed at the YouthCaN conference on April 23 and at the I*EARN conference this summer. See this topic in <iearn.teachers>.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN ACTION: The UN CyberSchoolBus launched a human rights project on 20 March 1998 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They will collect inspiring stories of schools defending and promoting human rights in their own communities, to be compiled into a global resource. Student efforts will be recognized on Human Rights Day, 10 December 1998. Write to <globalschoolbus@un.org> with subject field 'rights'. Include your name, school name and address. <http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/humanrights/>.
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BUILDING COMMUNITY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS: I*EARN teachers and students have been invited to host a forum about their I*EARN work for an online conference, running from April 15 to May 7, 1998. The conference's objective is to help communities distill, create, and identify the best practices for long term healthy community development. If you would like to be a co-facilitator of the I*EARN forum for this conference, write to <sitzkan@planet-tech.com> and <ljobson@iearn.org>. <http://www.planet-tech.com/futuresforum>.
YOUTH CAN 1998 CONFERENCE: April 23rd, 1998. Theme: biodiversity. More than 500 students in Austin, Texas, and 1000 students in New York City at the The American Museum of natural History are expected to attend. Through the use of telecommunications, students from Australia, Kazakhstan, Argentina, Russia, Belarus, China, Lithuania, and Washington state will be able to participate. <youthcan@igc.apc.org> <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan/>.
INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIAD OF PHILOSOPHY: Will take place from April 23-26 in Brasov, Romania. The olympiad has the aim of stimulating the interest of young people in philosophy. For more information, write to <kolev@phls.uni-sofia.bg>.
MIT JUNIOR SUMMIT - Children between ages 10-16 from around the world are invited to enter a contest to participate in the 1998 Junior Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US during the fall of 1998. Approximately 1,000 participants will be selected to participate in an online forum based on how well they can document -- in their native language, through a video or photographic essay, a musical piece, or drawing or painting -- the state of children in their community, with particular focus on how the digital revolution is affecting them. Those children with little or no exposure to the digital revolution are asked to give their vision of a global community. See <iearn.teachers> or <http://www.jrsummit.net>, or e-mail <jrsummit@media.mit.edu> Deadline for entries is April 30.
CEE/CA YOUTH SUMMIT: Will take place May 14-18 in Estonia, Janeda. You can see the logo for this event at <http://tartu.euedu.ee/iearn/iearn.gif> For more information, write to Terje Tuisk, Phare ISE Program, Veski 4 Tartu EE2400 ESTONIA, ph. +372 7 300 333, fax +372 300 336, GSM +372 55 17 515.
NECC, NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONFERENCE - San Diego,California, USA. Monday, June 22, 1998 through Wednesday, June 24, 1998. Pre-Conference Workshop Days: Saturday, June 20, 1998 through Sunday, June 21, 1998. For more information write to <necc@oregon.uoregon.edu>, or visit the NECC '98 website at <http://necc98.csusm.edu/>.
WORLD YOUTH FORUM: To be held in Braga, Portugal from 2nd to 6th August '98. The themes deal with 1. Youth participation, 2. Youth policies, 3. Youth and Human Rights. For more information, write to Portuguese National Youth Council, Rua do Forno do Tijolo, 73, 2 Dto, 1170 Lisbon, Portugal. Fax: 351-18144599, e-mail: <cnj@telepac.pt>.
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