******************* ENIS NEWSLETTER **********************By and For the European Network of Innovative Schools
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Number 10, September 2000**"myEUROPE "
Advisory Group
MyEurope Schools**CALLS FOR COLLABORATION
French ENIS School Seeking Partner
Internet Fiesta Needs Creative Volunteers
Basic Skills Tutors Training
The Guardians of the Millennium Webcast
Antarctica Project
Network of Innovative Schools Canada
A Cultural Journey Through Australia, Netd@ys**COMPETITIONS
French Art Contest
"Dot.Hope" Childnet Awards**EVENTS
"eEducation", Switzerland
Comenius Networks Infoday
EDEN, Fourth Open Classroom Conference
International Seminar, Toulouse, FranceDear ENIS teachers,
Northern countries, Southern countries…all schools are back to work now,
and I wish you all a wonderful new school year!Every month, as usual, you will receive the special "Voice of ENIS" and I
hope you will enjoy it as much as you did last year.
To make this newsletter as effective as possible for you, I need to stay in
contact with your network and I ask you to keep me informed about your
activities to disseminate them across Europe.
It is important for you and for education in general to share information
and projects. Use this newsletter to make your voice heard throughout the
network!My very best wishes to you all for this promising school year :-)
Brigitte
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Eleven teachers from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Hungary,
Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands volunteered to
build a core group of advisors who will be our European school based
experts. They will disseminate our activities, help us create new ones,
make sure that the work we do is a service to European pupils and teachers,
not only a pretty online platform!The group came to the European Schoolnet office on August 25-26. Together
we all worked for two days on the evaluation of the myEurope project and
the best ways to carry it further to serve teachers better. The meeting was
a wonderful experience, our group of "super" teachers gave us a thrilling
example of "enlarged" European citizenship and cross-cultural synergy. We
are all eager to continue to communicate, share and work on the project.
You can contact the members of the group and learn about them by visiting
the myEurope Contact page.We would be very happy to see some ENIS teachers take part in this initiative!
If you wish to become a member of the myEurope Schools Advisory Group,
please contact Brigitte Parry via email:
brigitte.parry@eun.org
http://myeurope.eun.org÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
MyEurope Schools are schools that wish to involve themselves in activities
around European questions using the framework provided on the myEurope web
site. MyEurope teachers are educators who teach about Europe or teach in a
European way, set up projects on European Citizenship, Cultural diversity
and Young Mobility.When you are a myEurope school, you belong to a community of already about
200 schools, it becomes easier for you to find partners, set up European
projects related to the three thematic areas and participate in the
building up of this unique thematic platform.You have access to special forums and mailing lists. You have a privileged
contacts with experts and colleagues. You can trust your partners for being
as motivated as you about European matters. You receive a very special
newsletter, edited for the network of myEurope schools only, which keeps
you updated about what is happening in the project and also helps you
promote your European projects, teaching resources and favourite tips.The myEurope office team constantly works on creating user-friendly online
activities for schools that will be easy to integrate to different
curricula and teaching levels. You can express your wishes and opinions to
help us improve the project by contacting us!The myEurope Schools network is a growing group of teachers who work
together, help each other out, co-operate and make education move forward
for a better use of technologies as a service to European education. It is
a group of people based in European schools, who all share the same
professional motivation, expertise, preoccupations and, above all, the same
desire to enhance our European Identity feeling via their teaching.Register!
Then go to: "myEurope Schools"
**************** CALLS FOR COLLABORATION ******************
French ENIS School Seeking Partner
This French school has just been selected to be part of the European
Network of Innovative Schools. The coordinating teacher is seeking contacts
with other ENIS colleagues to set up projects, preferably using Spanish to
communicate.
Please introduce yourselves to this new partner and try to help them
collaborate with your school.VADROT Isabelle
volveran@infonie.fr÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
Internet Fiesta Needs Creative Volunteers
To prepare next year's Fiesta, which will take place in March 2001, the
organisers need volunteers from various countries to imagine creative and
fun ways through which various cultures and languages can meet using the
Internet. Projects that were started this year and could be further
developed include:
- A world fiesta travel book allowing people to go from country to country
- A worldwide cookbook
- Multilingual centers enabling discussions in many languageshttp://www.internet-fiesta.org/
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The Basic Skills tutors will be starting on October 2nd 2000.
The Hampshire Basic Skills project aims to allow Basic Skills tutors to
gain experience and confidence in the use of electronic media, including
online (internet), CD etc. and to incorporate that experience and
confidence to enhance and extend their basic skills teaching. The 60 hour
course is run over 30 weeks and consists of a series of activities covering
a range of topics to develop ILT skills. This course is free however it is
expected that colleges will give tutors 2hrs/week remission/part-time
contract to enable them to participate.
For further information please contact Barbara Nance, Project Co-ordinator
at bnance@psc.ac.uk
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The Guardians of the Millennium Web site (www.theguardians.com) will host
the biggest ever live interactive World Game webcast played by
schoolchildren all around the world on September 21st 2000.
This exciting event will be seen as a live streaming video event on the
Guardians Web site and broadcast on a large screen at the Hanover World's
Fair for the European Commission's World's Fair Education and Culture Day.Teachers and students can watch and play The World Game live during the
Webcast from The Guardians of the Millennium Web site on www.theguardians.comWe hope many ENIS schools will participate!
If you have Realplayer and want to link directly to the video stream:
www.servecast.com/webcasts/guardiansmil/guardian.ram÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
During the coming winter, five adventurers from Belgium, Switzerland,
France, Germany and the USA will climb up a 900 metre rock in the
Antarctic. This expedition will also be an opportunity to create unique
communication events with the adventurers and world experts as well as
develop pedagogical activities for European schools like an online
newspaper, an encyclopaedia, science experiments and many other activities.
For further information:
http://www.edunet.ch/classes/c9/wall/index.htm÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
Network of Innovative Schools Canada
The excellent Canadian Schoolnet features a network similar to yours. A
group of pilot schools that has been selected for their quality and ability
to integrate technologies to education.
They are eager to collaborate with you and call for contacts if you wish to
know more about them, organise events and set up collaborative projects.
Contact:
Anne Kerr
Anne.Kerr@tdsb.on.ca÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
A Cultural Journey Through Australia, Netd@ys
This year Australia has a focus on Cultural Diversity with the online
project "A Cultural Journey into Australia". This will enable schools to
form a partnership with a school either in Europe or Australia.Get ready to travel… Schools will submit a travel form with information and
photographs indicative of students' culture and immediate surroundings.
Students will solve problems and generate an understanding of cultural
diversity within their community and around the world.
You are welcome to register your class, school or individual student in A
Cultural Journey into Australia at anytime on the website.http://netdays.edna.edu.au/2000/
********************** COMPETITIONS *************************
Europe is made of our cultural differences: a new identity is emerging from
this diversity. How would you represent this "Europe of Cultures" from an
artistic point of view ?
The contest is organised for pupils from nursery to upper secondary school.
The purpose is to use ICT and art to express our European diversity.
Several means of expression are accepted and productions can take the form
of a multimedia sequence, a stage performance or a fixed show.
The work is to be done in school framework and might lay on a former work
done last year.
Winners will be selected on November 15th and sent an invitation to produce
their show on Nov 25th, 2000 in Paris during "le Salon de l'Education".
For registration (deadline October 20) and information:
http://www.educnet.education.fr/inter/netdays.htm÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
At a time when most of the media has been concentrating on the 'dot com'
effect of the Net, the Childnet Awards celebrate what could be described as
the 'dot hope' impact the Net is having on children world-wide. How are
this year's winners using the web to break down barriers of distance,
disability and poverty to bring hope to others?
Participate! You could win valuable prize money and a trip to Washington DC
for the Awards ceremony in April 2001.Closing date for entries 31 October 2000 !
http://www.childnet-int.org/awards
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On September 27, a whole day will be organised in Freibourg around
Education, ICT and reflect the active participation of Switzerland in our
network. Swiss ENIS schools will receive their official certificate and the
afternoon will be devoted to teacher training issues, achievements and
developments. The days' programme and a registration form are available
online from:http://www.educa.ch/eEducation/
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On September 21, the Directorate General Education and Culture will
officially launch the new Comenius 3 action under Socrates II. Comenius 3
promotes and funds European thematic networking.
ENIS schools are certainly interested in this new action and will soon take
part in networks to broaden the scope of their schools collaborative projects.To know more about this new opportunity, go to:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/infoday/infoday.htm÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
EDEN, Fourth Open Classroom Conference
EDEN will organise the Fourth Open Classroom Conference on 20-21 November
2000 in Barcelona, hosted by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.The conference will focus upon the radical changes brought about by the
Information Society Technologies in the School Classrooms of our Digital
Age, the changes that are greatly affecting education of our children and,
eventually, the societies of the future.For all information on how to participate:
http://www.eden.bme.hu÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷
International Seminar, Toulouse, FranceWhich new environments for new training tools?
Foix, France, January 24-25-26, 2001
Communication language : FrenchResearchers, teachers, experts, all are invited to tell about their
experience and views on how to adapt teacher training to the new
developments of education.To participate of get further information:
http://www.toulouse.iufm.fr/Recherch
Tel : 00 33 (0) 5 62 25 20 74Deadline for proposals : 15 October 2000
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· Supporting collaboration between schools
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· Advancing concertation and standardisation processes in education.It is a joint venture between 20 Ministries of Education of the European
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