EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #49
April 25, 2001
Stuttur útdráttur
á íslensku er hér.
Harpa Hreinsdóttir |
eSCHOLA: A Guided Tour
Travel and Learn
Online Learning
Excellence and Innovation
eLearning Awards
NewsCOMENIUS SPACE
New Web Site InvitationCALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Eratosthenes Project
Wanted, Personal Diaries Resources
Babelnet Spanish CompetitionEUROSCOPE
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
This is the last teachers newsletter before the eSchola Grand Opening in Stockholm on May 7!
A lot is happening in the website and I will guide you around to help you find your way to all the new resources, projects, workshops and contacts it offers. Look around, take part and participate, a lot of effort is being put all over Europe right now to provide teachers and pupils with a broad range of quality educational opportunities. Take this chance to move further with us!There has never been such an initiative before, never have so many people involved in education done so much for teachers. We are really proud to do this for and with you all.
About the currently suspended French version of this newsletter, we have a young Belgian student at the office for some days and I will ask her to do the translations as long as she can. French speaking teachers need to be informed as well as all others in their own language.
So now I will take you by the hand and tell you in my usual personal informal way what is happening here.
All the best to you and eSchola! :-)
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org__________________ eSCHOLA_____________________
Learning Together
________________________________________________TRAVEL AND LEARN
________________________________________________Europe Across Time and Space http://eschola.eun.org
Take a look at the map of Europe, click along, discover resources and open collaborative projects. Take part in them or make contacts with the teams for next school year. Many resources have been selected and submitted by institutions that focus on education as a priority. Click on a vehicle and then on the different flags…many more flags will come and offer you direct access to European treasures.
We are working on a world map at the moment, Israel, in particular has already submitted a number of very interesting projects. The United States are also beginning to show up!If you want to be on the map, either contact me directly or submit online. The form may be a little complicated, do not let this stop you, I will help and even call you personally if you have any problems. I want the maps to be full of coloured little flags for you!
A few very good projects will be highlighted during eSchola week because they offer special eSchola events. Keep your eye on this section.There is a brand new activity here too: Multimedia Travel Stories
Instead of simply asking you to travel around Europe, we would like to make this an opportunity for your pupils to learn more about how to use new technologies. Travel and tell us about your favourite sites by writing a “hypertext-story”, a text linked to websites, pictures and sounds. The tool is ready and online for you. Just follow the guidelines…it is quite a unique exercise! A funny example is at your disposal. When you have typed your story and made your links, we will publish it in the eSchola website with pleasure!
Contact: Brigitte
Brigitte.Parry@eun.org
________________________________________________Europe Day http://eschola.eun.org
If you want to focus on Europe during the eSchola week, you may download a document, print it and use all our tips, links, examples for inspiration. This file has been put together with a lot of effort by Petru, our Romanian colleague, for you to save time surfing around. He has tried to find ideas and quality documents to help you bring Europe to your school. This effort is all the more valuable as it comes from the heart of someone who belongs to one of those countries that want to be part of the European Union, and who has a lot of experience in collaborative projects using new technologies.
We are also opening here a special section for the teachers who are planning to celebrate Europe at school to tell us about it. If you are making plans, send us a photo of your school, your town, your class and tell other teachers what you will do on the 9th of May.
Contact: Petru
petru.dumitru@eun.org
________________________________________________Home Swap http://eschola.eun.org
5 teachers have offered their home for exchange over the holidays so far! Two in Italy, one in Romania, one in Belgium and one in France. Take a look, contact your colleagues and propose your own home. This is a very nice way to spend time in a foreign country and experience the comfort of a real local home!
Contact: Brigitte
Brigitte.Parry@eun.org
________________________________________________School Pals http://eschola.eun.org
Here we would like you to feel the human presence of other schools and teachers.
If you need partners for projects, go to ”PalFind”.
If your pupils are looking for contacts, send them to “School Yard”
If you want to talk with colleagues at coffee break, we will open a chat room for you during eSchola week.Many teachers would like to set up small projects to start with new technologies, others already run large scale projects and would like to get involved in a twinning exchange to further it up with a school trip. There are many possibilities. The “School Pals” section offers you opportunities to work and create with one European colleague at a time.
Please note that other twinning possibilities are proposed further down this newsletter and also in the Europe Across Time and Space map. Go and find them!Contact: Brigitte
Brigitte.Parry@eun.org
_________________________________________________ONLINE LEARNING
________________________________________________Learn Space http://eschola.eun.org
This area is run by teachers from the EUN Virtual School, a group of 120 teachers who have put together European teams to help you deal with your academic subjects and integrate technologies to your daily life. They have learnt to use the latest learning environments and will propose unique workshops to you during eSchola week. You can trust their commitment and their skills, they want to offer you new opportunities to share teaching modules with others, teach and learn together, create new ways of teaching. Take a look and note down what interests you most in your eSchola week diaries. Discover the newest online learning environments with European colleagues.
Contact: Anna
anna.strom@eun.org
_________________________________________________EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION
_________________________________________________Favourites http://eschola.eun.org
We have asked teachers, inspectors, trainers, researchers and head teachers to select what, for them, are the best examples of new technologies in education. They personally expose themselves for you to know what education experts bookmark as examples of best practice.
Those experts are located all over Europe and propose projects from their own countries. As I am writing this, five “favourites” are already available, but many more are being translated and others will be added over the coming days.
Visit the suggested web sites, bookmark the ones you prefer, make your own page and send it to us if you have more ideas to share.There is also here a link to the EUN Comenius Space, a special website opened for all the teachers who wish to share, set up projects and tips, inform themselves about the European Commission’s Comenius action.
Contact: Anna Maria
annamaria.fichera@eun.org
________________________________________________Knowledge Pool http://eschola.eun.org
The boom of new technologies in education doesn’t go without problems as we all know and experience every day!
The numerous issues raised by the fast evolution of education can be related to school management, the harmonious and safe integration of the Internet to pedagogy, initial or in-service training. If you have managed to find ways around those issues in your schools or regions, contribute your own experience. If you are planning an ICT strategy in your school or region, this is where you will find tips to solve some of your problems.
The eSchola Knowledge pool is very important and, with your help, will actually help us all to move the frontier of education further.Contact: Welmoed
welmoed.lockefeer@eun.org
________________________________________________Leading Edge http://eschola.eun.org
Learn from the experience of others! Get inspired from successful implementation of ICT in the classroom to improve the quality of learning! eSchola has selected for you, teachers and learners, a collection of websites disseminating best practice for schools from all over Europe and beyond.
You can find the examples from best practice databases, awards sites and other successful projects presenting best practice in the leading edge section of innovation and excellence.
Contact: Anja
anja.balanskat@eun.org
________________________________________________Open Doors http://eschola.eun.org
Invite your fellow teachers to have a look at how you use new technologies.
Show them your collaborative projects, multimedia content and tools and let them have a look at your particular way to use them in class for fun and work. Open the doors of your website to the world! Lead every visitor through your homepage and let him/her know about both your innovative and daily use of new technologies.If you want to display your projects, you are free to choose the best waty and the easiest language for you.
And why not organise an open day at school, where you invite neighbouring schools for activities and conferences?“Open Doors” is also, of course, a chance for you to get partners and contacts in other countries.
Contact: Bengt
bengt.larsson@eun.org________________________________________________
School Portraits http://eschola.eun.org
Visit leading schools specially selected by Ministries of Education and national agencies during the eSchola week. You could get inspired by their multimedia portraits. Discuss with them how to make the most of new technologies in everyday
school life.
These schools are being put forward with a lot of care as they showcase the leading European policies in education. The portraits will be state-of-the-art multimedia presentations from all over Europe.Contact: Margit
margit.hofer@eun.org________________________________________________
The Awards will recognise the innovative use of ICT by schools and teachers.
Awards are given in four categories:
* eSchool Awards - for schools using ICT to improve the learning
environment for all students
* eTeaching Awards - for teachers making innovative use of ICT in
teaching
* myEUROPE Awards - for teachers or schools teaching about Europe, its
institutions and European citizenship
* eTeacher Training Awards - for teacher training institutions,
consortiums or schools that take innovative approaches to developing
teachers' skills in ICT as learning toolsWe have had nearly 400 submissions so far! The competition will be tough!
Submit too and get a change to be among the winners :-)
The contest is open until the last day of eSchola week: May 11.Contact: Roger
roger.blamire@eun.org_________________________________________________
If you want to tell Europe about festivities, events, projects or activities taking place in your school, village, town, region or country on eSchola week, contact us and we will promote those initiatives.
Alexa is our news editor and she will do her utmost to give visibility to what you are doing or planning to do. The European Schoolnet is a powerful European dissemination structure at the disposal of all the teachers who have something to show or share. Use it!
Contact: Alexa
Alexa.joyce@eun.orgIf you would like to tell your colleagues about eSchola, just ask and we will send you a Flash presentation CDROM.
Contact: John
john.rolin@eun.org________________COMENIUS SPACE_________________
Team up and Meet in Europe
_________________________________________________The Comenius Space is online. The structure is there for all current and future Comenius actors. You are invited to send us news about your projects, applications, meetings and projects. Contact Didi or myself to feed in the Comenius Space with life and information.
If you are involved in a Comenius project: submit your project portrait to the Gallery
If you have nice of difficult experiences, get into the “myComenius Space” and express yourself
If you are planning events, go to the “Calendar”
If you are looking for partners, send an add in the forum.Just spend some time discovering this new online space and see where you can contribute to help us create the first Comenius community. Please note that this space is open for all Comenius actions: 1, 2 and 3. We also work in close collaboration with Comenius national agencies across Europe to provide you better information and contacts in your own countries.
Comenius Space
http://comenius.eun.orgWebmaster: Didi
dietmar.hackl@eun.orgWeb editor: Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org
__________CALLS FOR COLLABORATION_____________
Work Together
_________________________________________________This interdisciplinary activity is based on the method invented more than 2000 years ago by Eratosthenes in order to measure the Earth radius. It involves groups of students in two - at least - different cities, both measuring, at the same time, the length of the shadow cast by a gnomon.
They collaborate using the Internet to exchange the results that are both necessary for the final measurement.This is a very interesting twinning activity. It is also proposed by an excellent French projet called “La Main à la Pâte”, see the School Pals section for further details.
Contact: Alessandra Zanazzi
zanazzi@cittadellascienza.it
Please also visit the « Citta della Scienza » website from the Europe across Time and Space map!
_________________________________________________Wanted, Personal Diaries Resources
The Belgian team involved in the “Atelier de Lecture” project is preparing their 8th international writing contest for the next school year. In order to provide young competitors with valuable resources, they are looking for examples of online personal diaries and documents on the expression of feelings and emotions;
Can you help? Sure you can!Contact: Jean-luc Davagle
jld@leaweb.org
_________________________________________________The fourth event for Spanish/Babelnet has gone online and can be found under http://www.knm.fi/babelnet
"Un día en Europa" invites learners (individuals or groups) to build an HTML page about how they spend a typical school day. To make this more interesting, they are asked to get in touch with other pupils registered to the event and exchange information. They find e-mail addresses under "Participantes" and a chat room will be attended by the Babelnet Team during the e-schola days (7-11 May 2001). Guidelines, participation rules and more information on the topic can be found under http://www.knm.fi/babelnet: EVENTOS. Of course there are prices waiting for the best five contributions. Make your inscriptions to the event now! (contributions accepted till May 26th).
Contact: Ulrike Hofmann
ulrike.hofmann@sbg.ac.at
__________________EUROSCOPE______________________
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