EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #55
November 20, 2001
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eSCHOOLNET
The European Portal for Teachers
eSchoolnet Launch Event
eLearning News
Virtual MagazineeSCHOLA
Launch Event in ParisCOMENIUS WEEK
Celebrate ComeniusFOCUS ON
The Swiss Portal for Schools
Luxembourg, New Portal for Schools
September 11 Art Exhibition
Working Together, France
Cyberschoolbus, UNO
Traditional Games, Brittany, FranceCALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Twin up with Israel
An Important Thing For Me, Finland
Find New Friends, Italy
Space Odysseus Project, ESA
Virtual Novels 2002
Youth Competition “Looking-for Spring”EUROSCOPE
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
Hi, here, there and everywhere :-)
A special call this time for a special project:
Yann Artus Bertrand, one of the most well known aerial photographers, is working on a project on Europe.
His team contacted me to find places where there would be an outdoor painting representing the European countries or one of the European symbols (flags, the euro..), in a schoolyard or on the wall of a school or wherever...
If there is a painting, a sculpture, a flag, something that symbolises Europe in your school or on your school, please contact the team and put your school on this prestigious aerial picture of Europe.His web site:
www.yannarthusbertrand.comYour contact : Sibylle d’Orgeval
sibylle@yannarthusbertrand.comMy best wishes to you all,
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org
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www.eschoolnet.org The Bookmark of European Teachers
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The European Portal for Teachers
If you are a teacher, if you want to integrate new technologies to your daily work and if you are interested in international collaboration, eSchoolnet is your web site.
We do not compete with national portals, we open the gates to all countries and projects. Our major goal is to help innovative teachers work, exchange, learn and create with international partners.
The web site is divided into five main areas: Practices, Collaboration, Resources, Training and the Virtual Magazine.
Each area is run by teachers and those people are working for you, to help you and promote your work.
Contribute to eSchoolnet!www.eschoolnet.org
_________________________________________________www.eschoolnet.org, the new portal for European and worldwide teachers will be launched at the European School of Brussels on November 29.
EUN office representatives will present the website to teachers and pupils in the presence of European VIPs. On this occasion we will also launch a cartoon competition and introduce a group of pupils to our online tools in their brand new computer lab.
To know more about the cartoon competition, contact Alexa
Alexa.joyce@eun.orgThe bookmark of European teachers:
http://www.eschoolnet.org__________________________________________________
The European Schoolnet's News site is for everyone working in education in Europe. eLearning news is the key topic - we'll keep you up to date on events, research, practice, collaborative projects and more. If you have a newsworthy tip about eLearning, don't hesitate to get in touch with Alexa Joyce at news@eun.org
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Visit eSchoolnet’s virtual magazine for teachers at www.eschoolnet.org/magazine. We tell more about what’s happening in schools and classes just like yours all around Europe. Take a look at some of the latest features – you too could contribute!
Events
Conferences, exhibitions and teacher meetings are a great way to get new ideas for teaching – not to mention a day out of the classroom! We’re keeping an eye on events around Europe. Take a look at the diary.http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=774
Working Together
Teachers all over Europe are working together in school projects, to encourage pupils and teachers to think internationally. How do they manage? Read the latest tips, insights and project news from around the continent to find out how.http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=775
Gaining Skills
Schools are changing all the time, and every day demands new skills and talents. Luckily, training opportunities are becoming increasingly diverse and innovative. Keep up to date with the world of teacher training.http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=776
Techwatch
Technology moves so quickly its hard for anyone to catch up. eSchoolnet’s correspondents are keeping an eye on new innovations for the classroom so you don’t have to. Find out the latest!http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=777
Newsletters
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Europe Update
The European institutions have a great deal to offer schools. Funding opportunities and new education policy are just part of it. Keep up to date about their Europe-wide events, and new initiatives in education.http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=779
Tomorrow’s School
Innovation happens every day at school. Which changes are here to stay, and which are just passing fads? Find out more about the future of school in this section.http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=780
In The Classroom
What’s going on in classrooms around Europe? Find out the latest about resources and projects being used by teachers and pupils. Maybe you’ll get ideas for your classroom!http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/goto.cfm?sid=781
Please contact:
Alexa Joyce – News Content Manager
alexa.joyce@eun.org
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Learn Together
_________________________________________________eSchola 2002 officially launches on at the Salon de l'Education in Paris. eSchola first started last year, and it’s great success has made it one of European Schoolnet’s major projects. It’s an online festival of eLearning taking place from 8 April to 9 May 2002 – read more.
At 11.30 on 22 November 2001 eSchola is launched!
Thousands of schools come together to share experiences, collaborate, get inspired, celebrate Europe and learn together. All schools are invited to contribute, collaborate and take this chance to display their strengths and learn from the achievements of their peers.
It includes regional and national events, online training and activities, the hugely popular eLearning Awards, long-term collaboration projects, cross-border knowledge exchange and many more activities involving innovation and best practice using education technology.
The launch event takes place at the European Schoolnet’s area of the French Ministry stand in Hall 7.2.2 of Paris Expo, at Porte de Versailles. Members of the eSchola team tell visitors to the Salon de l'Education about eSchola 2002 dates, activities and how they can get involved.
Kids on roller skates are moving around the Salon the whole day and handing out information material. The eSchola launch will be celebrated with VIP speeches, presentations and special surprises for visitors.
Take part in eSchola 2002, visit our stand and join our Europe-wide community!
eSchola
http://eschola.eun.orgSalon de l’Education Paris
http://www.salon-education.org/______________ COMENIUS WEEK __________________
Work and Meet in Europe
_________________________________________________Celebrate Comenius
For those of you who don’t know, Comenius is a set of actions funded by the European Commission. Learn about it at
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/cs_about/sub_area.cfm?sa=346From November 24 to November 27, many events will take place in Brussels where hundreds of teachers and pupils will be invited to present their work, and all over Europe. Ms Reding, European Commissioner for Education and Culture will share lunch with the pupils and take part in the celebrations.
To know more, take a look at:
http://comenius.eun.orgDuring the events in Brussels, the European Schoolnet team will accompany about 20 young reporters and help them put all the activities, pictures and interviews online!
The European Commission web site:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/comenius/
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Projects and Initiatives
_________________________________________________The educanet.ch communications platform offers an array of free services to schools, teachers and persons working in the field of education and further training.
Educanet.ch provides efficient tools for on-line communication and offers educational communities a simple, rapid, reliable and secure solution to their requirements.This is also one of the best places to go if you are looking for Swiss information and partners!
http://www.educanet.ch
_________________________________________________Luxembourg, New Portal for Schools
Luxembourg’s Ministry of National Education, together with Compaq Global Services Luxembourg and Plumtree are launching mySchool! – the National Educational Web Portal for the entire learning community of Luxembourg.
Take a look at this new initiative, contribute and collaborate!Project manager:
Daniel Weiler
weiler@myschool.lu
Web site:
http://myschool.education.lu_________________________________________________
Alexander Runs For Europe already a well known project, featured a few times on our site opened a week ago an art exhibition on the following themes: 'New York on September 11th, 2001', 'Operation Peace', and 'Mission Impossible?' 4 myEUROPE schools worked together to create this virtual exhibition. Read more and admire:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=9815
Take a look at the front page of myEurope to see what’s new
http://myeurope.eun.org
_________________________________________________This is a very successful French project, here is how it works:
The work is composed of four stages:
First, students get acquainted with the IBM software Quickplace dedicated to cooperative work and organise their mail box.
Secondly they introduce themselves.
The third part deals with cultural life. Students do a presentation--text and pictures-- of a cultural event specific to their own country.
Finally, students collaborate on a topic, chosen at the start of the session, dealing with the economic life.
The results of these activities are recorded on the site of each virtual class; using only English.The team would like to expand, use different multimedia devices like video-conferencing for instance.
If this experience inspires you, do not hesitate to get in touch with the coordinator:Bernard Garcin
bernard-garcin@wanadoo.frWeb site:
www.ac-grenoble.fr/wkto
_________________________________________________The Cyberschoolbus is the UNO education web site. It is now being regenerated and will soon offer many very interesting activities for schools.
Cyberschoolbus is looking for teachers and curriculum supervisors who would like to review content we're developing for this site and to try activities and lessons we are creating for teachers and students around the world.
Your participation will help us make our site more useful. Each time you review content or try out lessons on a particular topic with your students, they will send you FREE material about the UN for your school or classroom as a token of our appreciation. If you are interested in helping out, visit:http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/survey/surveyq.html
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Traditional Games, Brittany, France
If you are interested in regional games, their rules, their value for our European culture, take a look at this site.
Teachers will be able to use teaching modules and learn with their pupils about what made our grand fathers and grand mothers happy in the school yard!
What about sending your own games to the coordinators?Contact:
Falsab.Jaouen
Falsab.Jaouen@wanadoo.frThe web site:
http://www.bzh5.com/falsab/
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Create Together
____________________________________________________"Twinning" is the proven method of building bridges between communities and groups within those communities. It can and should act as a vehicle and catalyst for building real communication between people of differing or similar backgrounds who are geographically distant, but motivated to discover and close that gap with understanding. For twinning between Jewish and Israeli schools and communities visit http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/twin/twintro.html and for general twinning programs the indication is http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/twin/twinproj.html
In any case Gila Ansell-Brauner Educational Consultant at the Jewish Agency for Israel will be glad to help you find a suitable partner: Gila-ab@jazo.org.il____________________________________________________
An Important Thing For Me, FinlandA message from the virtual school’s Arts Department:
“We have a Europe club in our primaryschool. (Itä-Pakilan ala-aste, Helsinki, Finland) We are doing computer graphic collages right now. For those collages we need digital photos from Europe. So, can you send us images by e-mail? You don’t have to send photos from all your pupils. Even two or three is great!"Important thing for me" means maybe something concrete thing, so you can take a photo about it. My pupils took pictures like keys, books, different toys and so on. But children have to decide themselves. It would be nice, if children will take photos themselves, but teacher can do it as well. Background of the photo shouldn’t be too colourful. It could be red, green or whatever, but only one colour, if it’s possible, please!
What shall we do with all those photos?
Also children must know, that when they send us a photo, we have rights to publish it in the web or in our exhibitions. Also we can put photos together in big collage and little bit change (for example draw) photos, but not funny way! So nobody will hurt, I hope.
When we publish our collages, we just tell name of the artist. Also we will tell first names and countries about original photos. Later we will send you web-address where you can find readymade collages.”
Contact: Tommi Tikka, tommi.tikka@edu.hel.fi
____________________________________________________A very “fresh call” from a Southern colleague:
“Hello! I'm an Italian teacher and I 'd like to participate in e-mail exchanges to improve English abilities, to improve social and communication skills, to use new technologies in a friendly way.
For these reasons I am looking for penpal friends from all of Europe. My pupils are 10/11 years old. Write to me as soon as possible, please!”Raffaella Berlucchi
elmape@spedernet.it____________________________________________________
An educational board game about space and astronomy for pupils aged 8 to 14.
The team is looking for other schools in Europe to do work together on a game that is already devised. Each schools has to work only with its national resources but ESA has to send to every game-builder documents about European Space Conquest or every space topic... ESA (the European Space Agency) will open a special website to link every participant school.
Students have to find questions and answers in every resource, to test the game, to compare what the others schools finds using Internet and e-mails.
They need many documents to find questions, to illustrate playing board and cards, some websites addresses, the "ESA label".
This is a project in which each school has to work in Space Science and history, in Astronomy, in language (to do questions and answers, to explain the game, to help the referee), in Internet (to communicate with others game-builders and resources sites), in geometry (to build the board), in arts (to select or to do illustrations using Space Art). Each school send it work to others or to the special ESA project.
A committee of teachers and ESA staff will choose the best questions and illustrations to build the “ultimate” game.
At the end of the project (June or December 2002) this European game should be printed by a game editor with the ESA label.Contact:
Gilles CAPPE
gilles.cappe@wanadoo.fr
____________________________________________________This is an invitation to international collaborative novel writing in French, English, German, Spanish and Arabic. More than 6000 pupils aged 8 to 18 and from 30 different countries have already tested and enjoyed this project.
Some themes are proposed to the participants then it’s up to the pupils to let their imagination flow. A great exercise to improve writing skills.To register, contact the coordinator at:
webmaster@wanadoo-edu.comhttp://www.wanadoo-edu.com/participer/romansvirtuels/romansvirtuels.asp
____________________________________________________Youth Competition “Looking-for Spring”
The Republican non-governmental organisation “Women Support Center” in the close partnership with the Bishkek History and Civics Teachers Association supported by the State Agency on Science and Intellectual Propertywill hold a youth competition of creative works from November 25, 2001 till February 10, 2002. There will be two official nominations for the 7-25-years-old competitors: paintings and literary works.
The organisers of the initiative are expecting to evaluate attitudes of young people to the problems of human rights, violence, terrorism, trafficking in human beings, gender equity; to disseminate knowledge and information on the ways how to resist all the forms of violence; to attract society’s attention to the above issues and involve young people in the process of democratic development in Kyrgyzstan; contribute to the evolving the creative potential of young Kyrgyzstani citizens. A special Web-site will be devoted to the event.
To know more contact: Lubov Matytsina
mlubov@hotmail.kg__________________EUROSCOPE______________________
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