I*EARN IN ACTION #39, July 31,1998

I*EARN Global School Calendar!

Most Southern Hemisphere schools are in session.

 

I*EARN News Flashes!

1999 SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE HOSTED BY THE I*EARN ORILLAS CENTER IN PUERTO RICO - Start planning to come to next years
conference in Puerto Rico during the second week of July. Send
your ideas, recommendations and questions to: Enid
<efigueroa@orillas.upr.clu.edu> or Kristin <krbrown@iearn.org>.
You can find general information about Puerto Rico at this
address: <http://www.topuertorico.org>
 
I*EARN YOUTH SUMMIT - As part of the Youth Summit in
Chattanooga, a Vision Statement of the Global I*EARN youth
committee was written. You can see it at:
http://www.iearn.org/iearn/Chattanooga.youth.html
 
 
TREE OF CHATTANOOGA - A poem, which was written by Seydow Sou
from Senegal to commemorate the Fifth Annual Conference, can be
read in four languages (French, English, Spanish, and Czech,
fee free to send us a translation in your language) at:
http://www.iearn.org/iearn/treeofchattanooga.html

 

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Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings

1998 CONFERENCE LIST-SERVE - A list-serve has been set up with the addresses
of people who attended the conference in Chattanooga.
Anyone can remove or add your name from the list by sending the message "unsubscribe iearn98" or "subscribe iearn98"
To: maiser@mtc.pta.school.za
Subj: is ignored so you can put anything you wish or nothing at all
 
DIGITAL PHOTOS OF CONFERENCE IN CHATTANOOGA:
http://www.jc.gp.school.za/iearn
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/nb.html
 
BIKEABOUT HAS ARRIVED! - Via Morocco,
Tunisia, Malta, Egypt, Palestine, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria,
Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, Albania, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Slovenia, Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Order of Malta, France,
Monaco, Spain and Gibraltar. Share their experiences at: http://www.bikeabout.org
 
PHOTOS OF MEETINGS IN PRAGUE, ESTONIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL CAMP IN HUNGARY: <http://www.bela3.c3.hu/~tubi> or <http://www.srobarka.sk/iearn/98>
 
FREE COMPUTER SUPPORT - This site provides a wonderful service: free 24-hour technical assistance for your computer hardware and software: Windows, Mac OS, UNIX, BeOS, and even HTML (Web): http://www.nowonder.com/
 
NEW LEWIN WEBSITE: http://www.peg.apc.org/~ndeighton/lewin.htm
 
PEACE POEM: See the UN CyberSchoolBus Peace Poem with 450 contributions from 39 countries: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/peaceday/poem.htm
 
THE DAILY FIX - An educational and entertainment resource for
adults and kids and particularly useful for writing,
aptitude test preparation, speech-making and general vocabulary-building.
http://www.dailyfix.com/

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Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators

NEW PROJECT PROPOSALS - Many new projects were developed at the conference in Chattanooga. For a complete listing of these projects see: http://www.iearn.org/iearn/newprojects.html
 
TALKBACK CLASSROOM - Each month 3 students join federal ministers of goverment to the studios of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's Youth network radio Triple J. Students from schools around the world are invited to visit the web site
<http://www.abc.net.au/learn/talkback> to submit questions for the next guest, the Honourable alexander Downer, Minister for foreign affairs.
The broadcast will be beard live on radio and the web on August 19th at
10.00 am Australian Eastern time. For more information contact Muriel Wells
<mwells@ne.com.au>
 
PLANETARY NOTIONS 1998-1999 Planetary Notions - The editors at HF Carey High School invite you contact them about the following topics: Nuclear Testing articles, Nuclear Waste, Air pollution, Water pollution, water table
levels, waste management, Animal Cloning. See <iearn.environ>
 
 
FIRST PEOPLE'S ART PROJECT 199: "Our Community, Past and Present."
This project involves indigenous students around the world.
Students can create art of landscape (important features and everyday
aspects), buildings, plants, animals, and people, that are all important
aspects of their community. See <iearn.fp>
 
ON-LINE IN AUGUST? - We have received requests from people wanting to link to schools in the Northern Hemisphere. If your school is on-line right now, and you would like to link with others, please write to: <support@iearn.org>

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Coming Soon! Upcoming Events and Projects!

GLOBAL LEARN DAY - October 11 and 12, 1998.
The Conference "sails" on a virtual "clipper", with a westward "route"
to more than 200 countries. At each "port" leaders in distance education,
Internet technology and public service will webcast presentations: <http://www.bfranklin.edu/gld98/media.html>
 
TEL-ED CONFERENCE 1998: If any teachers or students are planning to attend the 1998 Tel-Ed Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA next October and would like to be a part of an I*EARN workshop entitled, "The Power of Global Telecommunications to Enhance Teaching and Learning," please write to <iearn@iearn.org>.
 
GLOBAL LEARNING CONFERENCE: Show casing knowledge and experience in integration of modern information technology in education, and establishing a greater understanding of cultural diversities, regionally, nationally and globally. Copenhagen, Denmark. October 18-21,1998. For more information, see <http://www.globallearning.org> or contact Inge Lise Hammer <ILH@FA.DK>.
 
1998 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE ON THE ENVIRONMENT (ICC) - 23 - 25 November 1998, Dunedin, New Zealand. The Conference which is being organized by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the 1998 International Children's Conference Board, Dunedin, will bring together 150 children between the ages of 10 and 12 years to learn and voice their concerns about the
state of the environment. For more information or to apply to attend the Conference, please contact: Theodore E.A. Oben in Kenya <theodore.oben@unep.org> or
http://www.unep.org/unep/event/icc

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For Reference

1. WHAT: Your announcement (2-3 lines)
2. WHERE: Send to <iearnsupport@iearn.org>. Subj: "news flash"
3. WHEN: By the 10th or 25th of the month.
 
 

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