SCENARIOS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: An online course
in which students will be taught established methodologies for thinking
logically about the future, such as trend analysis, leading
indicator identification, expert interviewing, and scenario
writing. Student work will be submitted to the National
Summit for Sustainable Development in Detroit, Michigan, USA,
May, 1999. Approximate dates: February-April, 1999. See
this
topic in <iearn.teachers> or contact
Seth Itzkan <sitzkan@planet-tech.com>.
YOUTH CAN '99: THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND COMMUNICATIONS
CONFERENCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE will be held APRIL 22-24 at the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City. We welcome participation
in person or via telecommunications. Contact Jason Gerber at
<jgerber@amnh.org>
or see the YouthCaN website: <http://www.nyu.edu/projects/youthcan>.
INTERNATIONAL ESSAY & ART CONTEST: The ONE DAY Foundation
regrets to
announce that the Contest has been canceled due to a lack of response.
We
sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or disappointment. Please
check
<http://www.oneday.org>.
KINDRED: The final submission date for stories for Kindred has been
extended to February 1, 1999. They would love to hear how the lives
of
your students' ancestors have been influenced by the events of world
history. For samples see the submissions in <iearn.family>.
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/W e b N e t 99: World Conference of the
WWW and
Internet, Oct. 25-30, 1999, Honolulu, Hawaii. Submission Deadline:
Feb. 25, 1999
see <http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet/>.
DAY OF EMPOWERMENT: Andy Danoe from Surinam writes: "On Sunday 31 January
1999, we will be organising an 'I*EARN
Motivatie-dag' (I*EARN Empowerment Day) for the students of our school.
On this day we will try to motivate teachers and the 24
member-students ranging from age 11-19 to work on existing projects,
and/or talk
about new initiatives."
(including resources that are not part of
I*EARN)
THE MILKEN EDUCATOR VIRTUAL WORKSPACES(MEVW): The Milken Family Foundation's collaborative on-line teaching and learning software, is available for free to educators, students, and members of the education community worldwide. Go to <www.mevw.org> and click the submit proposal link to get started.
CULTURAL HORIZONS GLOBAL LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: Containing links to
secondary
schools around the world that have Art and/or Writing web pages. Send
them the addresses of your school's Art and/or
Writing pages if you would like them to link them to their page. If
you do not have a web page, you can send them your
work and they will include it in their Library and Art Gallery. E-Mail:
<ch.editorial@friaborgsskolan.simrishamn.se>
WWW: <http://www.odata.se/hotel/friab/dream.htm>
ST. VALENTINE'S DAY: Join students in different countries sharing
stories and poems about love, respect and affection. Describe St. Valentine's
(or a similar festival) celebration at
school and in the local community. Art, including computer art, is
welcome.
Deadline for the first stage is February 12.
FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR: This project is ready to begin its work
for
1999. Writings, drawings, cartoons etc. are invited from current
and new
participants; a booklet of the collected writings etc. will be published
for
distribution to participants, governments and international agencies.
Work starts now - to be completed by late April or mid May.
See the newsgroup <iearn.projects>
or website <http://www.peg.apc.org/~bairnssec/marches>
VISITORS PROJECT: The aim of this project, facilitated by teachers in
Uganda, is to learn about how we welcome and take care of visitors
in our different countries. It is hoped that at the end of this project,
students will have learnt about the
different ways in which different societies welcome visitors
and thus widen their scope of understanding of other societies. See this
topic on <iearn.teachers> for more
information.
MATH CONTEST: The students of the University of Tartu (Estonia) invite
you to take part
in an internet math contest which begins on the 25th of January. The
languages of the contest will be Estonian, English
and Russian You can read the rules or send a math problem to the site
of the contest: <http://www.ut.ee/~ak05>.
WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS: This project aims at highlighting the problems
affecting the effective training of females in the discipline
of Mathematics in the world today and proposing solutions to these
problems. See this project on <iearn.teachers>.
RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION: This is an opportunity for students to
identify the causes and effects
of Rural-Urban Migration and suggest possible solutions to reduce
this phenomenon. Three secondary schools in
Uganda would like to find three schools outside of
Uganda to collaborate with on this
project from February 15,1999 through June 30,1999. See this topic
on <iearn.teachers>.
STREET CHILDREN: Students in Bulgaria would like students from all
over the world to share their view this pressing problem. They hope
to make governments realize that it
is high time these children are helped and encourage them to cooperate
and share experience with
other countries. See <http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/5382/Street.htm>.
STATE OF THE WORLD FORUM FOR EMERGING LEADERS: January 28 - 30 1999 in Monterrey, Mexico. See <www.worldforum-mty.org> or write to Jessica Garza at <garzajessica@hotmail.com>.
CONSORTIUM FOR SCHOOL NETWORKING CONFERENCE (CoSN): Feb 24-26, 1999 in Washington, D.C., USA. For more info, contact Keith Krueger (202-466-6296, ext 18) or see <http://www.cosn.org/conference/index.html>.
NAT'L YOUTH CONFERENCE FOR THE HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: April 10 & 11, 1999; Washington, DC, USA. Contact <lorengost@aol.com>.
HAGUE APPEAL FOR PEACE: May 11-16; The Hague, Netherlands. For more information: <http://www.haguepeace.org> or <mailbox@ipb.org>.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTERS MIRK'99: Slovenia between May 19-21,1999. Call for papers <http://www2.arnes.si/~ljosi8/piranan.html>. Contact <alenka.makuc@guest.arnes.si>.
WORLD SUMMIT OF YOUTH PEACEMAKERS: May 29 - June 1, 1999; Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Contact J'Lien Liese <imsi@earthlink.net> or see <http://www.gmu.edu/departments/NCPCR>.
NECC'99: National Educational Computing Conference to be held June 22-24,1999 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. For more info, call <541.349.7571>; fax <541.302.3781> or write <necc99@ccmail.uoregon.edu> <http://www.neccsite.org/>.
INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS OF ALKMAAR: From July 9-11, 1999 in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. For more info, contact <frankschmid@hotmail.com> or <imuna@bart.nl> or see <http://www.bart.nl/~imuna>.
UNITED YOUTH CONFERENCE: July 18-25, 1999; San Francisco State University, U.S.A. Designed as a prototype for a proposed United Nations Youth Assembly. See <http://www.oneday.org>.
SYDNEY 2000: October 2000 in Sydney, Australia. For more information email David Carter at <bairnssec@peg.apc.org>.