I*EARN IN ACTION #41, August 3, 1998

I*EARN Global School Calendar!

Welcome back schools in the Northern Hemisphere!

 

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 July 11-17. 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>
 
INSIDE VIEW: The 1998 edition of this urban issues project is completed. Contact Windel at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York to order a copy: <windel@copenfund.igc.org>.
 
UNITED YOUTH CONFERENCE: Youth leaders are currently being recruited as potential Youth Ambassadors to this conference which is a prototype for a permanent UNITED NATIONS YOUTH ASSEMBLY. Hosting young people from around the world, this Conference will bring Youth Ambassadors together to create a global platform
from which the voices, ideas, concerns and solutions of young people can be
heard. See <http://www.oneday.org> or contact Benjamin Quinto at <bquinto@mindspring.com>

Check it out! Resources, Web Sites and Postings

EARTHWATCH FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: Offers fellowships for K-12
educators to participate in a two-week field research
expedition around the world during the spring and summer of
1999. Application deadline: February 15, 1999. See
<http://www.earthwatch.org> or e-mail Matt Craig at
<mcraig@earthwatch.org>.

Join Us! Seeking Contacts, Contributions and Collaborators

KINDRED: You are invited to join this project which focuses on
family history. Student submissions are required by December 1, 1998. A
book compiled from the responses will be distributed in early 1999.
Submissions may be read and sent to <iearn.ideas>.
 
UTOPIAN VISIONS '99: an interdisciplinary telecomputing project, seeks
secondary school students (ages 14 -19) and teachers for a
collaborative study of municipal histories over a 300-year time period
(1799-2099). Ongoing email exchanges will support debate of utopian
visions and dystopian realities, enabling students and teachers facing
technological challenges to participate even with the most basic
Internet access. For more information please consult the <iearn.ideas>.
 
BORGES Y YO: Invitamos a todos los que quieran conocer la vida y la obra del gran
escritor argentino Jorge Luis Borges , que visiten la conferencia
llamada <iearn.borges> . Alli encontraron
propuestas de lectura y escritura, elaboraci¢n de una biografia entre
todos los que participan y comentarios en general.
 
1998-1999 LEARNING CIRCLES: Session 1 (Sep. to Jan.): Begins
September 28 (the first week in October) and ends on January 9
(15 weeks minus a two-week break in December). Placement forms
are due on Sept. 14 and can be found at <http://www.iearn.org/circles/lc-placement.html> .
 
FACES OF WAR - GLOBAL ART WORK DUE IN BY OCTOBER 20: This is an ongoing cross curriculum project that looks at the lives of ordinary people around the
globe thrown into traumatic circumstances. The project examines four main groups, refugees, holocaust survivors, loved ones at home and veterans of war. Each year a number of themes are put up for student exhibitions of art work. This year the final
exhibition is to be held on November 11th. For more information see: <http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/fow/faces.html> NEWSGROUP: <iearn.ventures>
 

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>.
 
GLOBAL LEARNING CONFERENCE: Showcasing 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>.
 
TEL-ED CONFERENCE 1998: If any teachers or students are planning to attend the October 29-31, 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," write to <iearn@iearn.org>. For more info: <http://www.iste.org/Conferences/TelEd/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 info or to apply to the Conference, contact: Theodore E.A. Oben in Kenya <theodore.oben@unep.org> or see <http://www.unep.org/unep/event/icc>.

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.