EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #57
January 13, 2002
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eSCHOLA
Register Now!COMENIUS SPACE
Partners for ProjectsVIRTUAL SCHOOL
Spartacus NewsletterFOCUS ON
The Carnival of Venice
Harry Potter, The Film, BBC
German and the Internet
Images and Wings
UNICEF, The Teachers’ Place
WWF Competition, Draw the AlpsCALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Le Méditerranéen
Games of Tradition
Email Exchange Call
Changes in Teaching
Euros Exchange Project
The Internet FiestaEUROSCOPE
EDEN 2002 Annual Conference
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
Happy New Year to you all, dear colleagues,
I hope you got a good rest, wonderful presents and a lot of hugs!
Now it is time to face 2002 with a positive mind and make it a year of sharing, creation and synergy between schools.
We are with you and more than ever we would like to help you use the Internet together to make your daily work different, more interesting and motivating for your pupils.
Stay in touch and let me know what our team can do for you and with you.For your information, this newsletter is now also translated into Japanese and all the languages together reach about 25 000 teachers around the world!
My warmest wishes for 2002 :-)
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org
___________________ ESCHOLA _____________________
Learn Together
_________________________________________________Register Now!
eSchola 2001 showed that many teachers now know how to use the Internet and are actually pushing further the frontier of education. eSchola 2002 will play the role of a springboard for many more projects, schools, cities and regions.
Register now and get a chance to be featured at European level as an example!
Register now and get a change to win an eLearning Award!To know more, contact:
Angela Andersson
Angela.andersson@eun.org
Carmen Strigel
Carmen.strigel@eun.orgVisit the web site:
http://eschola.eun.org______________ COMENIUS SPACE __________________
Work and Meet in Europe
_________________________________________________Partners for Projects
If you wish to set up a Comenius project, you need partners in “eligible” countries. The Comenius Space partner finding forum is THE place for you. It is visited everyday by teachers from all European countries. Go there, take a look around and spot the project you would like to join, or send a message and you will get replies!
Look at the different Comenius opportunities in “about”
Find a partner in “communication”
Apply for a community for your team by sending an email to: community@eun.org______________ VIRTUAL SCHOOL __________________
For Teachers By Teachers
_________________________________________________Spartacus Newsletter
A free weekly email journal for anyone interested in using the internet for education. The journal includes online news, reviews of websites and articles on ICT. Members will also be able to submit information for inclusion in the newsletter. In this way we hope to bring people together who are involved in using the Internet for education. Past editions can be seen at: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/internet.htm.
Subscribe to Education on the Internet just send an email to IwantEducation@keepAhead.com__________________ FOCUS ON ____________________
Projects and Initiatives
_________________________________________________This very nice web site in Italian, English and French will inform you about one of the most famous and extravagant carnivals in Europe. Now that Christmas is over, let us prepare for the Carnival!
You will get here details about the history, the origins, the traditions of this celebration, and much more.http://www.carnivalofvenice.com/it/index.html
_________________________________________________Well, as so many pupils and teachers eagerly read the story of the young wizard, I thought I may point out to the BBC web site on the subject!
This web site offers a wealth of audio, video and written materials for English teachers or teachers of English to work on the film.
Then you may even test your knowledge by going through the Harry Potter quiz.http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/harrypotter/
_________________________________________________The following website was released just a few days ago and fills an important gap in Germany. It was created by several major German organisations and wants to help kids, parents and teachers to become internet-smart.
This service is interesting, extensive and reliable. The web site is in German and may also be of some interest to teachers of German.http://www.internet-abc.de/daten/html/index.php
_________________________________________________« Le Quai des Images » and « La Main à la Pâte » were two of the four best projects rewarded a first prize in Lisbon during the eLearning awards ceremony. On this occasion both coordinators met and decided to set up a new common collaborative project. What a nice story!
This project is set up in partnership with Galatée Films , ONERA (National Office of Study and research in Aerospace), the students of the Astrophysical & Astronomie doctoral school and a group of pupils from the Nancy Henri Poincaré upper secondary school. Conceived in a transversal way, this project offers the opportunity to study subjects as varied as bionics, cinema, aeronautics, history of the pre-cinema... The image is at the same time tool of study (through various visual aids: illustrations, texts, videos) and object of study (through the work carried out around film).http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/cinemav/imageaile/
The web site is in French only at the moment, but you may email the coordinators in French or EnglishDavid Jasmin
jasmin@inrp.frDominique Coujard
d.coujard@ac-nancy-metz.fr
_________________________________________________The Teachers' Place provides resources, discussion forums, and networking opportunities for those involved in
Education for Development. “EDEV” is an approach to learning about interdependence, peace, social justice and the rights of young people as described in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It promotes active learning processes that encourage children and young people to take action on global issues.
The web site is in English, French and Spanish.http://www.unicef.org/voy/fr/research/reshome.html
__________________________________________________WWF Competition, Draw the Alps
2002 is the year of mountains! This web site invites all pupils who live near the Alps to draw the mountains they see and probably love and send their piece of art to take part in a very nice competition.
You will also find games, images and a discussion forum.
The web site is in German, French, Italian and Slovenian.http://www.kids-for-the-alps.net/
___________CALLS FOR COLLABORATION_______________
Create Together
____________________________________________________Le Méditerranéen, Southern Countries
This is an online magazine set up by students for students. Its aim is to promote Mediterranean culture. Schools take the responsibility to deal with the editing of articles in turn.
You are very warmly invited to contribute to the next topic which is: “Poets from the Mediterranean region”
Send your articles (2000 characters maximum) before March 27 to:Dominique Bouquet
dominique.bouquet@ac-aix-marseille.frYou may also contact Dominique for information and ideas, of course!
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Games of Tradition, France
Traditional games encourage exchanges between districts, townships, and regions and maintain a sense of cultural identity by giving roots and reference marks. Traditional games, in spite of their extreme diversity, produce bodily expertise and a terminology that is a shared culture. We need to preserve these assets of technical and human qualities. The preservation of identities is not backward looking but on the contrary is an understanding and acceptance of different ways of developing social links and access to modernity.
If you are interested in traditional games, there will be an international conference in Nantes, France, on October 3 to 5, 2002.
Either to register, contribute or to get information, do not hesitate to contact the coordinator:
Falsab.Jaouen@wanadoo.fr
____________________________________________________Email Exchange Call, Netherlands
This school in the Netherlands would like to integrate information and communication technologies to as many activities as possible. At the moment they are looking for a partner school to establish an email contact leading to real trips and meetings. The age of the pupils is 13-14.
Visit the school’s site for more information:
www.rsgsteenwijk.nlThe teacher to contact is:
Geke Reijmerink
hg.reijmerink@hccnet.nl
____________________________________________________Catherine teaches 10 year old pupils in Nice, France. She is looking for colleagues who would like to discuss with her about what changes occur in school education because of the use of new technologies.
Please contact her and exchange, this is very important and a lot of ideas can come out of your discussions.Her email address:
jsaturno@wanadoo.fr
____________________________________________________An interesting call from Spain:
“I am a teacher interested in making an exchange of euro coins with schools whose country belongs to the euro monetary union. The idea is as follows:
Every pupil who wants to receive a coin from another Euro-country gives the coin to the teacher who, then, puts them in a pack and sends it to the corresponding school, which, on their part, will do the same. With this system it's possible to make a collection of money and know the other Euro Countries.”My e-mail is: treshernandez@teleline.es
Now I add my personal touch and I suggest to go beyond and maybe compare prices and discuss about the impact of such a change in Europe!
____________________________________________________The Internet Fiesta
The Virtual Planetary Exhibition
From the 18th to 24th of March 2002
"Environment : science and education"
The Internet Fiesta is a Virtual Planetary Exhibition of initiatives and propositions coming from thousand of web users on all continents. Here they will present their projects, exchange their point of view and experience. They will share their cultural richness and will open themselves to others.
The fourth edition of the World Wide Initiatives Exhibition will gather, during a whole week, web users, web masters, universities, communities, public institutions, non governmental organisations and companies in a large virtual space devoted to project exchanges, to ideas, to demonstration and to experimentation.http://www.internet-fiesta.org/
__________________EUROSCOPE______________________
Do Not Miss Anything or Anybody!
____________________________________________________University of Granada, Spain
16-19 June 2002Internationalisation is moving to European and global scene-the progress of the Bologna process: the creation of an European higher education area, developing perspectives of virtual mobility offer a challenge to think again about the issue of international co-operation in ODL and eLearning - now with the focus "within and beyond Europe". The EDEN 2002 Annual Conference at the University of Granada will focus on the survey of the European internal situation, and review the international scene beyond it.
To know more:
eden@eden.bme.hu
http://www.eden.bme.hu
____________________________________________________European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
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