EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #45
February 7, 2001
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Harpa Hreinsdóttir |
eSCHOLA, Learning Together
Teachers Seminar in Brussels
European Schoolnet eLearning
Awards 2001
myEUROPE
New activities: Saint Valentine and Environment
Chat: Environment
myEurope Schools Network
CALLS FOR COLLABORATION
ENO- Environment Online, Finland
Water Project, Comenius Partnership, France-Italy
The Human Genome Project, Portugal
20 Questions, The Netherlands
Eating Across the Border, I*EARN-Netherlands
Illustration about the
minorities` situation, Norway
Cultural Exchange in German, Italy
"Agenda 21 NOW!"-2001, Germany
Webcam Exchange, UK
Real and Virtual Exchange, Switzerland
Classes Online, Italy
Email Exchange, Ireland
Cultural Exchange, Romania
TRAINING
European Teaching &
Learning of Literacy, Slovenia
Implementation Strategies for a School-focused
Assessment Policy in Foreign Language Learning, Portugal
Effective Staff Development, Greece
Comenius 2 Courses, Catalogue
RESOURCES
The Big Myth
Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
Finding Europe's Learning Treasures
Digital
Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
British Library Newspaper
Library Catalogue
COMPETITIONS
Eurocuisines, Virtual School, French Department
‘trans-mission’, Video Competition,
Austria
Spanish Babelnet
EUROSCOPE
European Schoolnet
Conferences and Events Page
Here is the latest issue on the EUN Teachers’ Newsletter: some very
important items concerning the eSchola initiative, many calls for partnership
and the whole new set of European funded training schemes.
We also propose a section on new activities in myEUROPE. Please note
that these activities are especially designed for the myEurope Schools
network. We invite you to join and participate.
Excellent news for our Catalan colleagues: this newsletter is now available
in Catalan, thanks to the help of the AEIC “Association of Computing Teachers
from Catalonia”.
This newsletter is accessible online from:
http://www.aeic.es/arxius/butlle44.htm
We warmly thank Ms Victòria Oliu, the AEIC Webmaster, for letting us know about this new version!
Kind regards
Brigitte
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Learning Together
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All the members of the myEurope advisory group, together with representatives from the Virtual School and the European Network of Innovative Schools, came to spend January 27 and 28 with us in Brussels and attended a very special “eSchola” seminar.
Ulf Lundin, our Director and the general coordinator of the eSchola
initiative introduced the project. Angela Andersson, the eSchola executive
coordinator, lead the seminar. The rest of the team, Magnus, Petru, John,
Margit, Tor and I helped the group of “super teachers” create, share and
make proposals for the coming event.
National networks were also represented in the persons of Reinhold
Hawle, Ministry of Education Austria and Isabel Oliveira, Ministry of Education
Portugal.
Our focus was set on three major pedagogical strands:
Demonstrating examples of good practice
Online teaching
Collaborating around the theme “Europe Across Time and Space”
To know more about eSchola, go to:
http://eschola.eun.org
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European Schoolnet eLearning Awards 2001
The 2001 European Schoolnet eLearning Awards are designed to show how teachers are successfully using technology to improve teaching and learning in schools across Europe. They reward innovation that increases learning opportunities and can be adopted by others.
What are the categories?
1. eSchool Awards for Innovation
For a school or group of schools systematically using the Internet and other technology to improve the learning environment for all students, and provide wider learning opportunities. The entry might be a web site or Intranet used to support organisational change or to increase access to learning opportunities.
2. eTeaching Awards for new pedagogies
For teachers making innovative use of ICT in teaching. An entry might be teaching modules, a project, online courses or multimedia material.
3. myEUROPE Awards
For a teacher or a school successfully teaching about Europe, its institutions and European citizenship. Entries could be collaborative projects, worksheets, teaching modules or multimedia resources that raise pupils’ interest, and increase understanding of Europe.
4. eTeacher Training Awards
This category is for a teacher training institution, consortium, municipality or school that takes innovative approaches to develop teachers’ skills in using the Internet and other information technologies as learning tools. An entry could be a course scheme, an in-service training arrangement or a collaborative project aimed at enabling teachers to make full use of the potential of new technologies.
Who can enter?
Teachers, schools and teacher training organisations anywhere in Europe. Entries may be in any language.
Find all information soon at:
http://eschola.eun.org
Closing date 11 May 2001.
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Link and Learn Europe
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Apart from learning, what do kids do during all those school years? They fall in love!
Saint Valentine is an opportunity for all language teachers to ask their pupils to write love poems in their own language or another. We want rhyming poems, of course!
The activity, complementary links and online tool for contributions will soon be online from the myEUROPE website.
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Open your eyes and look! Isn’t your town or village the prettiest in
Europe? Yes it certainly is :-)
Share this beautiful spot with European friends.
This activity will build a European gallery of pretty European spots and help travelers make up the best route across Europe.
Here is how to proceed:
Identify the prettiest place in your environment, take pictures and
share them with the class.
Compose a text presenting this place, it’s special features, it’s historical/geographical/cultural
value and try to attract visitors from other countries. Imagine that you
are writing for a Tourist Information guide.
http://myeurope.eun.org
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The main goal of this activity is to make the pupils aware of that their views matter. That they can influence the decision makes. The secondary goal is to make them more aware of their surrounding environment.
They write letters by developing a persuasive argument on an issue of concern to them. Pupils will become part of the European voice, highlighting the main concerns of youngest people of the continent related to the environment protection.
Pupils take photos of a run-down area or street in their town/village. Then they write a letter to the mayor. Letters should be respectful and clearly explain what the problem is and also should include children views on possible solutions.
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On February 27, we are organising a unique synchronous event : a «
chat » on environmental issues related to Europe.
The expert from the European Commission is Ms Margot Wallström,
the Commissioner for Environment … in person.
Her curriculum vitae is available in all languages at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/commissioners/wallstrom/cv_en.htm
and from the myEurope site at:
http://www.en.eun.org/myeurope/chats/wallstrom.html
We are extremely proud to propose such an opportunity to European schools.
To register, email Brigitte at:
brigitte.parry@eun.org
The chat will take place on the myEurope site:
http://myeurope.eun.org
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The myEUROPE network is now a group of nearly 500 schools. Those schools have all voluntarily registered online. They have their own environment, tools and activities. They can submit projects and resources as well as take part in the different activities we propose.
MyEUROPE is also a team of experts based at the EUN office in Brussels who work in very close collaboration with a unique group of teachers who help them design projects and disseminate the project in their own countries.
Please, take a look at their site and visit the very active partnerfinding
forum.
Join in!
http://www.en.eun.org/myeurope/myeurope-schools/index.html
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Work Together
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ENO- Environment Online, Finland
ENO school district is coordinating an environmental program called ENO- Environment Online. It is a global virtual school where four environmental themes are tackled within a school year. There are 50 ENO schools, located in 30 countries. The ages of the students range from 12 to 18.
For the next schoolyear ( August 2001 –May 2002 ) the coordinators are looking for active schools which could take part and fit this program in their teaching.
Deadline for applications is the 31st of March. Please register online
at:
http://pp.eno.fi/eno2000/application01.htm
More information about ENO can be found at:
www.enoschool.org
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Water Project, Comenius Partnership, France-Italy
The M.Mazzarello secondary school, Turin-Italy is involved in
a Comenius project called: “Water, an irreplaceable resource for Europe”.
This initiative combines new technologies and work on environmental
issues related to water.
The pupils are between 11 and 14.
The team is looking for a partner school situated in a Central or Eastern
European country.
Contact teacher: Nadia Brunetto
mediamazzarello@tin.it
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The Human Genome Project, Portugal
Perspectives for Public Health
Ciência Viva Agency is launching an international project aimed at secondary school students, on the perspectives for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of genetic diseases in light of the research carried out into the Human Genome. The project, which will run from January to May 2001, will have the support of both Biology teachers and teachers of other subjects working at the schools that are taking part in the project, Health Sciences researchers and journalists. This initiative is the follow-up of a previous project in the area of Health Sciences.
http://www.cienciaviva.mct.pt/healthxxi/
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This group of Dutch pupils have made a set of 20 questions. They have discussed with their teachers and answered those questions. Now they would like European pupils to answer their questions, then they will analyse the differences.
This very simple project can be interesting, pedagogical and stimulate exchanges both in the classroom and across Europe.
http://home-3.worldonline.nl/~nhoebe/school/T1A/t1a_start.htm
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Eating Across the Border, I*EARN-Netherlands
This Dutch school is getting involved in innovative teaching via a first
simple and friendly I*EARN project.
They are looking for partners who would like their students to communicate
as well as learn to use email and attach pictures, photos to their messages,
etc.
To start with the young partners introduce themselves…go ahead and
join in!
Contact teacher: Jan Meys
jan.meys@tip.nl
To know more about I*EARN:
http://www.iearn.org
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Illustration about the minorities` situation, Norway
This call comes from a Norwegian art college where, besides academic subjects, the pupils study subjects like drawing, illustrating, painting and art. The pupils are between 16 and 19 years old.
The project coordinators would like the pupils to do some illustration work about the treatment of minorities in different European countries.
The task would include interdisiplinary cooperation between subjects like history, art, social studies, ICT. The Internet and its full potential will be used throughout the project
Contact teacher:
Kari G. Førre
kgforre@online.no
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Cultural Exchange in German,
Italy
This school situated in Cagliari, Italy, is looking for a partner to
exchange in German. This virtual exchange could eventually lead to a real
exchange during the next school year.
Contact teacher: Mauro Mascia
mauromascia@tiscalinet.it
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"Agenda 21 NOW!"-2001, Germany
Agenda 21 NOW! takes place on World Water Day, which is Thursday 22nd March, 2001, from 00:00 to 24:00 hours World Time (U.T.C.).
Agenda 21 NOW! has been designed for students and groups of students aged 14+.
The theme is “sustainability” and this online conference gives you a
unique opportunity to discuss with colleagues from all over the world who
are also involved in related topics and based all over the world.
To participate, you need a computer with access to the Internet, at
school, at home, wherever you are. And some time on March 22nd. Last but
not leas, you also need two minutes for online registration!
To know more, contact:
Martin Jarrath
and the Agenda 21 NOW! Team at:
info@agenda21now.de
http://www.agenda21now.de
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This special school situated in South West London is looking for a French
speaking partner to set up a web link via a web cam.
This request is quite unusual and it would be very interesting to get
some feedback from this webcam exchange project!
Mark Uttley
info@paddock.wandsworth.sch.uk
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Real and Virtual Exchange, Switzerland
A group of 40 students, aged 14-15, is looking for a partner class in an English speaking country in order to exchange about culture, hobbies and organise a real school trip. This school is situated in Lugano, Swizerland.
Contact teacher: Gideon Bough
Gideon.bough@ti.ch
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Classes on Line offers a virtual community that can dramatically improve
learning outcomes. This 2D and 3D Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
motivates learners’ active participation and makes them responsible for
their learning .
Liceo Scientifico Asproni is willing to share its pedagogical and technological
know-how in order to refine and spread the use of its virtual environment.
The coordinating team requires partners who could help them experiment, evaluate and improve the “Classes on Line” Virtual Learning Environment
If you are interested, please contact Roberto Cuccu via email
rcuccu@tiscalinet.it
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A message from Aine Kennedy:
“We are an English speaking class of 30 10-11 year olds in Ireland. We would like to find out about cultures of other countries through an Email project. We would like to send and receive Emails on various topics eg Language, Music, History, Sport, on a daily basis between now and the end of March. I would appreciate it if some people could respond to this request. Thanking you”
Email: danescastlejnr.ias@eircom.net
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This school in Romania has pupils aged 7 to 14. They are looking for
French speaking partners, or teachers of French and their pupils, to set
up an exchange around cultural values, similarities and differences.
One of the purposes is also to help the pupils involved improve their
French language skills.
Contact : mihaela gabor
mihaela_medias@yahoo.com
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Learn to Teach with ICT
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European Teaching & Learning of Literacy, Slovenia
This course is set up by a project group of university teacher trainers
and ministry professionals from Sweden, Holland, Portugal, Slovenia and
England.
The focus of the course is literacy teaching and learning for pupils
at the age of 6 to 12, thereby targeting teachers and other educational
professionals working with or focusing on this age group or this group
of professionals.
The course week covers for example Literacy Overview, Motivation and
Encouragement in the Classroom, Resources for Literacy, Wider Involvement
of Literacy in Society, and Action Planning.
The deadline for submitting applications for grants for Comenius 2
courses is close. If you would not personally be able to attend, may I
ask you to forward this document to colleagues who might be interested.
The profiling the course can be found in the EU Course Catalogue on
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/cat2001-2002/en.html
For more information or for registration, please contact Dr.Monika
Tratnik, ZR Slovenije za Solstvo, Poljanska 28, 1000 Ljubljana on phone
+386-1-3005-159, fax +386-1-3005-199, or e-mail monika.tratnik@guest.arnes.si
.
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Implementation Strategies for a School-focused Assessment Policy in Foreign Language Learning, Portugal
The course will consist of 13 three-hour sessions and will be organised as a residential seminar that takes places in Lisbon from November 3 to November 10, 2001. The vehicular language will be English. Workshops will also be provided in French, Dutch, German and Portuguese – depending on the composition of the audience.
To apply, please contact:
Rudi Schollaert + 32 2 511 68 39
You will then receive a statement from him that you have been accepted
on the course
Download the grant application form from
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/cat2001-2002/en.html
Send the application, together with the course director’s statement
to your national Socrates agency. You will find the address of your national
agency at the same URL as the application form.
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Effective Staff Development, Athens
This course aims at answering the fundamental questions of how to select and evaluate in-service training and staff development programmes. It also offers guidance on how to negotiate with external providers, whilst at the same time focusing on internal strategies to make the school’s staff development plan operational. Thus the course hopes to contribute to the empowerment of schools as learning organisations.
The course will consist of 12 three-hour sessions and will be organised as a residential seminar that takes places in Athens from September 22 to September 28, 2001.
To apply, please contact:
Rudi Schollaert + 32 2 511 68 39
You will then receive a statement from him that you have been accepted
on the course
Download the grant application form from
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/cat2001-2002/en.html
Send the application, together with the course director’s statement
to your national Socrates agency. You will find the address of your national
agency at the same URL as the application form.
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Now you can access the whole Catalogue of EU Comenius courses. (September
2001 - 2002).
The deadline for application is 01.03.01
Here is the URL:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/cat2001-2002/teachers_en.html
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Teaching Differently
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'The Big Myth' is a collection of cross-cultural world creation myths, designed for comparative study. Each myth is animated using Flash technology, so it is important that the school or home accessing the site has a browser (Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) of 3.0 or higher, as well as the Shockwave Player Plug-In, which is free to download on the Macromedia site. One of the most important aspects of this site is to introduce children to the web, and allow them to feel comfortable with the Internet as a tool for research, inspiration and creative learning.
Take a look at this amazing site and learn with pleasure!
http://www.bigmyth.com
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Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
From the earliest stages, people have to deal with Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) issues of various degrees of complexity. Often those taking
part in projects have little experience of the complexities surrounding
IPR. In order to provide the most comprehensive first line support service
to the RTD community the
IPR-Helpdesk service includes:
IP Helpline: info@ipr-helpdesk.org
The multilingual website www.cordis.lu/ipr-helpdesk
provides:
An extensive portal on Intellectual Property
More than 7,000 pages of information and links
Member state national pages of IP and Innovation information
Tutorials on patent and RTD IP issues
The latest headlines in IP-News and a free monthly IP newsletter IP-Wire
Access to 30 million patents through esp@cenet®
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Finding Europe's Learning Treasures
The ETB (European Treasury Browser) is the European Schoolnet's web-based educational resource infrastructure for schools in Europe. It is linking together existing national, local or specialised repositories, encouraging new online publication, and providing a reliable level of quality and structure. The new website has just been launched, why not take a look and see what treasures you can find?
http://www.eun.org/etb
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Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) has created a digital version of the Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon, published in 1971 and considered "the definitive reference manual to the global photographic coverage of theMoon." The site includes all 675 plates contained in the original work, digitally enhanced to increase photo quality. Visitors can view images by feature name, listed alphabetically or by descending latitude and longitude, or they can search by feature name, photo number, or coordinate range. Returns include a large thumbnail image, photo number, feature name, latitude and longitude, size, sun angle, spacecraft altitude, and medium photo centre latitude and longitude. Students and general users may wish to consult the even easier to use Consolidated Lunar Atlas, which allows browsing by a long list of plates, thumbnails, or even better, an interactive image map.
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/research/lunar_orbiter/index.html
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British Library Newspaper Library Catalogue
The British Library Newspaper Library in Colindale has recently placed its catalogue of over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings online. Researchers planning a trip to Colindale can now look up titles and dates held in advance. The catalogue is searchable by keyword and sorted by title, date, or place. Entries include place, main title, numbers, dates, shelfmark, dates held on microfilm, and other notes. The British Library Newspaper Library's holdings include "all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1801 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century onwards and selected newspapers from around the world dating from the 17th century onwards.
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/newscat.html
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The Winners Corner
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Eurocuisines, Virtual School, French Department
From January 15 to March 16, 2001
The French Department of the EUN Virtual School is launching its fourth
contest called “Eurocuisines”.
The ultimate purpose is to publish the results in the form of an online
European cookery book. As usual, the best contributions will be rewarded
and schools will receive books and videos.
To register and get more information go to:
http://www.en.eun.org/vs/french/french.html
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‘trans-mission’, Video Competition, Austria
‘trans-mission’ is a video competition for pupils throughout Europe as part of the European Year of Languages 2001. European schools are invited to take part. It will be implemented and produced by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Department of Media Education.
The goal of ‘trans-mission’ is to encourage interest in language learning
and to increase media competence. At the same time ‘trans-mission’ offers
pupils and teachers an opportunity to communicate throughout Europe, make
creative and innovative contributions and use the results in language classes.
The submissions can be video works in any genre. They should be relevant,
innovative, amusing, original, exciting, interesting, emotional and / or
experimental. Mini dramas are just as welcome as language courses as long
as they are unusual contributions to the subject.
http://www.mediamanual.at
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The first event for Spanish Babelnet has gone online.
Learners (individual or groups) are asked to build a web page about
the place where their school is in order to invite ”Carlitos” to come and
see that place. So they should point out all the places of interest in
their town and present them in a pleasant way. Guidelines, participation
rules and more information on the topic can be found under the html-address
above mentioned. Of course there are prices waiting for the best five contributions.
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Do Not Miss Anything
or Anybody!
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