EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #52
September 24, 2001
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eLEARNING AWARDS
The Top 100 Projects
myEUROPE
Inside Schools
World Citizens Peace Forum
PROJECTS
Montage Plus Projects
Dudley Challenge Europa
Philosophy in the Classroom
Young Reporters, New Registrations
CALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Workshop on Quality of Web-based Learning
Internet Language Challenges
Youth and Social Action, UNICEF
Prof-Inet, Canada Wants European Schools
The Image of the Other, 3 Calls from the Netherlands
Creative Arts in the Technological Age
Email Exchange Germany
Email Exchange France-Nordic Countries
EUROSCOPE
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
Before anything else, and on behalf of the EUN office, I send my American
subscribers my most sincere sympathy. We sadly share the sorrow of all
the children who have lost a father, a mother, a relative, a friend in
the atrocious disaster that took place on September 11. Therefore,
this newsletter may be shorter than usual but it provides a new special
section on “peace education” for those of you who would like to focus on
this painful but hopeful topic over the coming months.
We, educators, have the mission to help make future citizens responsible
and respectful of democratic values, life and human rights.
Sadly yours,
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org
______________ PEACE EDUCATION ________________
How Can We, Teachers, Help?
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Peace education, UNO
http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/peace/index.asp
Peace education in UNICEF
http://www.unicef.org/pdeduc/education/peace_ed.htm
Peace is in our hands, UNESCO
http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/
Red Cross International
http://www.redcross.org/
Nobel Peace Prize winners
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/alpha.html
The official Mahatma Gandhi web site
http://www.mkgandhi.org/
Swedish Network’s discussion forum
http://www.skolverket.se/katastrof/katastrof.shtml
French ministry of Education, articles for teachers
http://www.educnet.education.fr/actu/pr-crash.htm
Speech given by the Norwegian Prime Minister
http://www.dep.no/smk/norsk/aktuelt/taler_statsmin/001001-090216/index-dok000-n-n-a.html
Iceland, invitation to a peace action
http://skolavefurinn.is/lok/kennarar.htm
Germany, discussion for children
http://www.kidstation.de/index.html
Arts, Swedish pupils express their sorrow
http://www.alexandersajt.koping.se/europe
Norway, "Terroraksjonen i USA", pupils from the whole world write
about their reactions
http://www.skolenettet.no
______________ eLEARNING AWARDS ________________
“ La Crème de la Crème “
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The Best Projects of Europe
And the winners are……………………..
The selections has been done in two phases so far:
100 projects were short listed out of the 900 submissions
Out of those came out “la crème de la crème”!
Now take a look at the very best ones who may win fabulous prizes
Keep an eye on:
http://eschola.eun.org
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Link and Learn Europe
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This new activity aimed to showcase the myEUROPE schools community.
The school introduction will give visitors a quick view on the wealth
of cultures, languages, and countries represented in this project:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?ov=8138&lang=en
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Share and exchange your concerns about respect, peace, democracy and life. React to what happened in theUSA on the11th of September 2001:
http://www.eun.org/eun_forum/forum.cfm?id_template=8140&cpt=1&oid=8140
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Inspiration
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This is a platform set up by the British Council offering tools, partners
and open collaborative interactive projects to all teachers.
All curricular areas and age groups are covered by this very lively
initiative. You may participate in a project or add your own. Take a look!
http://www.montageplus.co.uk/projects/
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Challenge Europa is based on a virtual balloon journey around Europe
- visiting 10 countries and 10 cities. It includes a range of problem
solving tasks that give pupils clues to the destination of each stage
of the journey.
The Challenge also includes opportunities to email experts in a variety
of areas around Europe and a practical task with a local flavour. Teams
are expected to complete an electronic 'travelogue' of their adventures
around Europe - capturing the essence of each location - its heritage,
traditions, history - and language.
Challenge Europa also raises awareness of the euro - with pupils being
rewarded in 'virtual euros' for solving problems on route - with opportunities
to spend euros later on the journey.
Challenges have been set by teams of educators based in each of the
locations.
The Trek - a resource for younger children will be available from November.
This will be a mutilingual ( Dutch - German - English - Welsh ), multinational
resource based on a journey from the source of the Rhine to the North sea.
It will also raise awareness of the euro - with a range of maths problems
to familiarise young pupils with the new currency.
Both resources will contain a range of opportunities to enhance understanding of European citizenship issues.
Both can be accessed at www.edu.dudley.gov.uk/c2000
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This web site in French and Italian (French version under construction)
is a “lone ranger’s” initiative from one of our active Italian colleagues.
He proposes documents and a forum to share an exchange on philosophical
questions.
It is important to support such hard work. Please make his site live
and expand.
http://dolanf.monrif.net/
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Young Reporters, New Registrations
If you wish to join a network of European teams focused on environment
and be part of a very well organised project, it is time to register!
The period of registration on-line started the 1st of September and
will end the 15th of October for European projects. Young reporters will
find a link to register their project of investigation, on the homepage,
and in the office of the Chief editor.
___________CALLS FOR COLLABORATION_______________
Create Together
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Workshop on Quality of Web-based Learning
A virtual workshop on Quality of Web-based Learning Resources will is
organised for a period of three weeks starting from the 17th of September,
2001. This workshop is part of the European Treasury
Browser-project (http://etb.eun.org)
under the activities of European Schoolnet (www.eun.org).
Subjects and dates:
17 -22 of September: Quality standards set by communities of knowledge
are they conservative?
Moderator Dov Winer, Makash
24 - 29 of September: CEN/ISSS Learning Technologies Workshop
(title will be announced latter)
Moderator Jan Pawlowiski from Essen-University, Leader of the Quality
Assurance Workgroup
1 - 6 of October: Recommendation on Quality Assurance and Selection
of resources for the ETB-network
Moderator Riina Vuorikari, work package leader of ETB Quality Assurance
You can now sign up at the ETB website!
http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/community/entry_community.cfm?area=65,
Click JOIN!
Or send an e-mail to etb@eun.org with
Subject: QUALITY!
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A group of language teachers near Paris is organising Languages and
ICT School Challenges on a variety of subjects to be announced on September
26th 2001, the European Day of Languages. For this second edition, there
are five languages : German, English, Portuguese, Spanish and French -
all as a
Foreign Language.
All pupils from Europe and anywhere in the world are invited to take
part in these ICT challenges. They have to work on thematic questionnaires
adapted to their different levels : primary schools, lower secondary
schools, upper secondary schools. Each "challenge" is a list of 20 questions.
For more information, please drop by and visit:
http://www.ac-versailles.fr/pedagogi/defi
Best of luck to you all!
Olivier.Colas@ac-versailles.fr
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Youth and Social Action, UNICEF
What you are doing on children/youth rights issues that you care about?
What works, and what are the challenges you face?
Join the discussion at UNICEF Voices of Youth through September 2001
at:
http://www.unicef.org/voy/misc/chforum.html
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Prof-Inet, Canada Wants European Schools
This environment for schools to share and communicate in French is run
and managed in a very professional and human way by our friends from Quebec.
Different possibilities are offered to you:
A network of schools to contact
Assisted projects on very nice cultural themes
Activities, projects and examples
http://www.cslaval.qc.ca/prof-inet/index.asp
Contact: Jean-Guy Dufort
jgdufort@vl.videotron.ca
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The Image
of the Other, 3 Calls from the Netherlands
This ESP project is an ideal email exchange project for teachers wanting
to start using ICT with their pupils!
This project exists in English, German and French.
“We are looking for partners for a email-project like 'The Image of
the other'. We want to do the project in English with 4 groups of boys
and girls of about 13-14 years of age. They have had 2 years of English
Education in Highschool. .
We want to start the project next October.”
Two other schools are looking for partners for a email-project like
'Das Bild des Anderen'. The language used would be German. Two groups
of pupils are interested: 14-15, with two years experience of German learning;
15-17 with about three years experience of German learning.
We would love to have a email project with schools in Germany for instance
with pupils that have Dutch. Our pupils could write in German, your pupils
could write in Dutch. Schools of a other countries however are also welcome
to join the project!! We want to start the project next march.”
Marjo Bollen, ICT-coordinator RSG Broklede
marjo.bollen@wxs.nl
http://users.educ.uva.nl/henks/image/teacher.html
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Creative Arts in the Technological Age
A primary school from West Midlands, England, would like to exchange with partners on creative art, visual, performing arts from pupils. They wish to look at how these subjects are still developed and are a part of the curriculum in a technological age. Also to use new technologies to generate and transmit art work. This would include video conferencing.
Contact: Elaine
ej.bowen@talk21.com
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This upper secondary school teacher from Magdeburg, Germany, is looking
for a class in France or Switzerland that is interested in e-mail-exchange.
The pupils are 17 to 18 years old. She would like to start the project
in November or December
2001 and do it for about four weeks. The subject may be: the relationship
between France and Germany, with more specific expansions like “prejudices”.
The languages for communication must be French or/and German.
Contact: Mirja Panskus
mpanskus@gmx.de
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Email Exchange France-Nordic Countries
French teacher of English is looking for partners in any Nordic countries
or country situated in Northern Europe to set up an exchange in French
and English.
His pupils are specialized in technological subjects.
Email:
coberfr@yahoo.fr
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