EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #53
October 11, 2001
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Harpa Hreinsdóttir |
PEACE EDUCATION
Many More Links For TeacherseLEARNING AWARDS
Prize Giving Ceremony in LisbonVIDEO CONFERENCING
Partners Wanted for US and JapanPROJECTS
Kidlink, Peace Project
Universe Project, The Netherlands
Eratosthenes, Twinning Project
Telelearn II, Greece
This is Our Time, The Netherlands
Associated Schools Project NetworkRESOURCES
European Union for Teachers
New Italian Portal
The Interactive Heart
See Hear Imagine, Finland
Special Needs, France and Europe
Guidance to the Teachers’ International Professional DevelopmentCALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Folk Music and Rural Habitat, France
Food Feast and Fun, Slovakia
International Junior Newspaper, Clemi, France
Cultural Exchange, Spain
ePhys Project, Greece
Art Gallery, Slovenia
European School Paper, FranceEUROSCOPE
Perseo Multimedia Festival, Strasbourg, France
Atelier de Lecture, Belgium
Babelnet Spanish
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
Now we are all well involved in the 2001-2002 school year and more than ever we need to stay in contact. Many projects are on their way and I am happy to be the link between you all for the dissemination of such wonderful activity in schools.
The next newsletter will be mainly devoted to the launching of our new portal for teachers, a sophisticated and user-friendly environment for you all to find resources, partners, ideas, projects and connections with European and world colleagues. For this new set of websites, we are looking for videos from schools or other educational institutions. The footage can cover any of the following topics:
classroom activities, education policy, school events, teacher training, any other topic in education!
The footage should be available in web-ready digital format (e.g. avi, mov, ram), not more than 30 minutes long, in English, French or German language. For this particular form of promotion, please contact our news coordinator, Alexa Joyce (alexa.joyce@eun.org)Take care :-)
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org______________ PEACE EDUCATION ________________
How Can We, Teachers, Help?
_________________________________________________Many More Links For Teachers
I would like to thank all the people, mainly our close European Schoolnet partners, for providing me with this precious collection of links to help teachers enhance the importance of Peace Education in their daily work.
Guide to the statements and actions undertaken by the European Union in response to the 11 September attacks (English)
http://europa.eu.int/geninfo/keyissues/110901/index.htmYouth of UNESCO schools from Slovenia, protest appeal (multilingual)
http://www.asp-mreza.edus.si/kik2001/A Beautiful Image Gallery (Visual)
http://thankyou.fast-networks.net/Consortium on Peace Research Education and Development (English)
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/copred/SEP11.htmlCentre for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (English, German)
http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/news/news.htmInternational Crisis Group (English)
http://www.crisisweb.org/Pedagogical Kit, CLEMI, France (French)
http://www.clemi.org/nouveau.html“Our little cornflowers, for all whom need strength”
A special hope page for children in hospital
http://www.macadam.nl/Webteam/korene.htmImagine Peace..and building peaceful classrooms (English)
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~masonda/Teaching and Learning for Peace, Australia (English)
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~masonda/UNESCOpack/contents/index.htmWorldlink Online (English)
http://www.nova.edu/worldlinkonline/html/un_day/worldlink_events.htmDossier “Special USA”, France (French)
www.educnet.education.fr/documentation/dossier/usa.htmKids Cope by Sharing Hope (English)
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/Free of Charge Downloadable Materials (multilingual)
http://www.martinauer.net/KINDER/krieg/Wired News, a set of web sites (English)
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,47184,00.htmlAnd of course, myEUROPE activities:
Holding Hands
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=6465
Say “I love you!”
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=6459The Dutch "Centrum voor Mondiaal Onderwijs" has produced a series of lesson materials under the title "Aanslagen op de verdraagzaamheid" (Attacks on tolerance").
If you understand Dutch, visit
http://www.kennisnet.nl/docent/
then go to NIEUWS - LEERMIDDELEN - AANSLAGEN IN AMERIKA
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“ La Crème de la Crème “
_________________________________________________Prize Giving Ceremony in Lisbon
The finalists of the prestigious eLearning Awards are offered an all-expenses paid trip to Lisbon, Portugal for the awards ceremony at the end of the year. On 6 December 2001 the nominees for each category will go to Lisbon to join the experts from Ministries of Education all over Europe.
The experts are attending the EMINENT (Expert Meeting of International and National Education NeTworks) event, and will attend the prize-giving ceremony.
There are twenty-two finalists in each category: eSchool, eTeaching, eTeacher Trainer, and myEUROPE. The overall winners of each group stand to win a selection of great prizes – they can win up to 10 000 euros in cash or a laptop!
_____________ VIDEO CONFERENCING ______________
I See You, You See Me
_________________________________________________Partners Wanted for US and Japan
If you want to communicate via email and/or video-conferencing with schools from the USA, Japan, Hawaii, Europe, Australia, South Africa or Taiwan, I know where you can find contacts!
An old friend of mine from Japan is setting up a world network to facilitate video-conferencing communication.
Her name and email: Yoko Takagi
yoko@jearn.jpShe is currently looking for schools in Europe to exchange with Japan.
I also have a special call from Illinois, USA:
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"Would your high school students like to form a cultural exchange partnership with a school in Chicago? We are looking for French teachers or teachers of French to become our partners for this special project. Our students, ages 15-16, are in four French II classes. They would like to become friends with French teenagers and discuss common interests, such as music, television, food, clothes, family, and school. We would like to correspond via email, but we can also videoconference and are willing to create joint web pages. If you would like to partner with us, please email Lisa Perez, Von Steuben High School, at Lperez59@aol.com."___________________PROJECTS_______ _____________
Inspiration
_________________________________________________Kidlink has set up a special project space for pupils to reflect together and express their thoughts about violence in these times of international trouble.
Three ways to take part:
Write your thoughts about the recent violence in New York and Washington in the KIDCLUB diary.
Share your broader reflections -- poems, stories, thoughts – about violence, war and peace
Show how you build bridges with kids from other cultures everydayhttp://galaxy.kidlink.org/kidspace/start.cfm?HoldNode=696
_________________________________________________Universe Project, The Netherlands
“The Universe through the eyes of the analyst, the artist, the economist, the doctor or the philosopher”All kinds of people have been inspired by the universe: artists, scientists, philosophers and business people. This cross-curricular topic is easy to integrate to many subjects and very motivating for pupils. The project is run in collaboration with science experts and the outcome should be very formative for participating schools.
The age group for participation is 14 to 19.Contact: "Jeroen Clemens" j.clemens@aps.nl
Web site: http://heelaldemo.aps.nl/
In English and Dutch
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Eratosthenes, Twinning Project
In 205 B.C., the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes, at the time Director of the Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt, proposed a purely geometrical method to measure the length of the Earth’s meridian (circle passing through the poles). He started by using the observation of shadows made at two different places, Alexandria and Syene (now Aswan) distanced approximately 800 km apart (distance estimated in relation to the time taken by a caravan of camels to connect the two towns!) at the time of the Summer solstice and at noon local solar time.
You want your pupils to re-discover this in the classroom? Well, just trust the coordinating team and tell them you are joining in! They will provide you with contacts, teaching modules and links to science experts.
Contact:
Emmanuel di Folco
edifolco@eso.org
__________________________________________________The main aim of the project is to introduce the uses of telematics applications and the web technologies in the teaching and learning procedures in primary schools. One of the objectives of the project is to widen the cooperation network, which was developed during the first phase of the project.
If you teach in a primary school and you feel your experience can add some value to this project, please contact Nancy at:
ineag@otenet.grhttp://www.ineag.gr/Research/Telelearn2/indexEn.htm
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This is Our Time, The Netherlands
Time is an annual global telecommunications project for secondary schools. Time seeks effective and innovative ways to enable young people from many different cultures and countries to communicate and co-operate with each other on current world issues. This is expressed is a wide range of educational activities like the discussion-forum "Classroom twinning", interactive learning in "Unite the Nations", digital time travel in "Time Line" and creative thinking in "Design a clock".
Go to the library and find many materials related to peace education:
http://www.timeproject.org/information/information.htm__________________________________________________
Associated Schools Project Network
ASP Net includes over 6,700 educational institutions, ranging from pre-school education to teacher training in 166 countries. Associated Schools commit to promoting the ideals of UNESCO by conducting pilot projects in favour of better preparing children and young people to meet effectively the challenges of an increasingly complex and interdependent world.
This site proposes, contacts, activities and projects for schools all over the world.http://www.unesco.org/education/asp/
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Teaching Differently
____________________________________________________The delegation of the European Commission to the United States, Washington DC offers a great site full of tips and teaching resources. The site is divided into several areas: traveling in Europe, studying in Europe, studying about Europe, “For Europeans Only”, working in Europe, and even fun!
http://www.eurunion.org/infores/teaching/Young/EUYoungPeople.htm
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The internet site of Tecnica della scuola has been online for three years, but this year it changed completely, adding new services and providing more information to school operators, students and their families.
It has more sections devoted to the latest issues related to schools. A wide section is devoted to the “foreign news”, to fellowships and to EU initiatives in the education and vocational training sector. But the real news is the section “Scuola In Web”, the first Portal for the Italian School network which allows to retrieve information about schools internet sites, to look at the related school plans and educational tools, their projects and educational projects proposals, online services and students’ products, and to share experiences and views with other teachers. It includes about 3.000 Italian schools sites.www.scuolainweb.it
____________________________________________________Download the interactive Heart software for free!
Using “Heart” you can teach:
-how the heart functions as a double pump.
-how the chambers and the valves work in harmony.
-how ECG represents the heartbeat.
-how the blood oxygen level differs on the right and left sides of the heart.
-which sides of the heart pump the blood to the body and to the lungs.
-how exercise affects heartbeat rate.http://www.new-media.co.uk/scienceyear/heart.asp or www.scienceyear.com
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See Hear Imagine, Finland
Hugo Simberg's on-line exhibition for the visually impairedThe See, Hear, Imagine online exhibition presents the symbolic world of the Finnish artist Hugo Simberg (1873-1917) through six of his works.
The works are presented through detailed descriptions of the pictures and by analyses of their background and themes.____________________________________________________
Special Needs, France and Europe
The French ministry of Education has put online a very thorough dossier on resources for special needs education. The texts are in French, but I would advise non-French speakers to click on “Europe et International” and see what is available in different countries.
http://www.education.gouv.fr/thema/special/default.htm
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Guidance to the Teachers’ International Professional Development
The latest programme for Teachers’ International Professional Development is now available online.
It provides information about:
Criteria for eligibility
Contacts for the programme providers
Types of visits available to Teachers
And much, much more!Download the programme from:
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/tipd/backgov.cfm?Doc=289#summary
___________CALLS FOR COLLABORATION_______________
Create Together
____________________________________________________Folk Music and Rural Habitat, France
Michel Lemeu teaches music in a lower secondary school in Brittany, France.
He is setting up a twofold collaborative project: thematic Comenius 1 project on folk heritage (vehicle languages: Romanian, French and Brittany dialect), and a language exchange (vehicle languages: English, French, Spanish, German)
He is urgently looking for long term partners in Europe.
A partnership with this teacher can only be a wonderful adventure, he has already done incredible experiments on sounds and music!Contact him at:
michel.lemeu@ac-rennes.fr
____________________________________________________This school has had a one year experience with a Comenius action 1.
On the end of 2000-2001 they had a joint result , but two partners left the team .
They are looking for partner schools that would accept to prepare a new application for next school year about the theme "Food, Feast and Fun in our country"
Contact: sint bernarduscollege
guidodemerre@yahoo.com____________________________________________________
International Junior Newspaper, Clemi, France
Get your pupils to write articles on the theme: “Which fights for peace?” and send them before October 25 either by email or by fax to:
Sarah Benamram, Pierre Dupanloup, Gabriel Thullen
dupanloup.p@cnv.ch
Fax : 41/22 779 28 80Coordinator :
Marif Poulain
m.poulain@clemi.orgThe CLEMI is an excellent organisation focusing on press and education. They organize Press weeks at School in France, support teachers in all regions. Taking part in one of their projects means being part of a network of professionals of writing skills.
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An upper secondary school, "I.E.S. LA Serra" in Mollerussa - Lleida (Spain), a little town west of Barcelona, is trying to organize a students' exchange for 2002/2003.
The topic for the exchange would be the issues of the language variety in Europe and the study of European art.
The students involved would be 16-17 year olds and the duration of the stay in each country of around 10 days.They are also interested in applying for a Comenius grant if the team is together early enough for application deadlines.
Contact: Ana Rivera
arivera@pie.xtec.es____________________________________________________
This is a new project aimed to promote the open and distance learning in Physics by developing a series of web-based educational applications, and in parallel, to establish a network of high schools and Universities. The application for this Minerva pre-proposal will be placed after the preparatory visit, end of October.
If you are interested in taking part in a physics network, in innovation and European collaboration, contact:
Anestis Papadopoulos in Greece aip63@spark.net.gr____________________________________________________
The main aim of the project is to collect as many different artworks of students from different countries as possible
All submitted schools are asked to participate with no more than 9 artworks. Students up to16 years old can participate.The artworks can be:
Computer graphics and pictures (made by - Corel, CW, Paintbrush itd..), web pages on cultural and natural heritage, e-mail artworks as attachments to:
All the artworks will be exhibited in our virtual Gallery, but in May there will be an official opening of an art Gallery in our school gallery every year.
http://www2.arnes.si/~osngso3s/artgallery_e.htm
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Express yourself!
The French association J.Presse invites all European secondary school pupils (inside or outside the EU), aged from 15 to 20 years, to express themselves in the language of their choice on every subject referring to school life (max.4500 characters) and to formulate a wish how school should be changed (max. 400 characters). The form of expression is totally free, articles (format "RTF" or "TXT") as well as drawings, photographs, comics….(format "JPG" or "TIF"). Participation by fax, by Internet, by surface mail.For further Information contact: Larissa (fdelaire@jpresse.org) and on the Internet: www.jpresse.org
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Do Not Miss Anything or Anybody!
____________________________________________________Perseo Multimedia Festival, Strasbourg, France
The Perseo Multimedia Festival Project aims to organise a festival of new languages. The project will coordinate and promote the creation and development of new forms of expression and new forms of culture which have been highlighted in the last few years. The festival will be aimed at young people, and hope that the event will give them a chance to express themselves using innovative technologies in many languages. The project will be launched at a special ceremony at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on 23 October 2001.
For more information, please email the organisers, the
International
Communication Society at icsociety@tin.it____________________________________________________
8th international writing competition: All pupils aged between 11 and 18, are invited to write the personal diary of an imaginary character in French. The more emotions the better!
You can take part via email, web pages or simply by faxing/posting the text to the coordinators.
Deadline for submissions: January 28, 2002Contact:
Jean-Luc DAVAGLE
jld@leaweb.orgWebsite for all information:
www.restode.cfwb.be/francais_____________________________________________________
The new Babelnet Spanish competition is online: de ”Español con Carlitos”. The purpose is to build an international tourist guide for young people. So let your pupils describe their city, village or region in Spanish, look at where they live through their young eyes and for young travellers…and maybe win a prize!
http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/carlitos/
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