EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TEACHERS' NEWSLETTER #59
February 11, 2002
Stuttur útdráttur
á íslensku er hér.
Harpa Hreinsdóttir |
REBELS
An Amazing Community
ESCHOOLNET
eXplora
Technical Corner
eSchola
INSIGHT Schools
FOCUS ON
Women’s Rights
Europe Direct
European Award for Languages
Special Needs Education
Euros Move
Looking for Schools in Scotland?
Sick Children’s Network
One River, Many Projects
CALLS FOR COLLABORATION
Networking French Speakers
Reading and Writing Skills, Comenius
Your Pupils’ Opinion Wanted
Multimedia Dictionary, French
Multimedia Show, Italy
EUROSCOPE
TED, Netlearning for Multiple Intelligence
European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
First of all I would like to share many positive thoughts with you. Trees are blooming here and there…and it is important…, projects are opening up, more and more teachers are trying to embark upon the Internet experience and the ICT rebels community already counts more than 70 members, all professionals working directly with teachers, pupils and new technologies. There is hope for education as long as people keep thinking, sharing and communicating. The best developments will come out of a strong trust/respect link between realistic practitioners, creative content providers, open technicians and effective researchers.
My best rebellious and optimistic regards to you all,
Brigitte
brigitte.parry@eun.org
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" If it doesn't work, find a new way "
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An Amazing Community
Now if you want to know where the real new wave of pioneers is meeting, it’s within the” Rebels Community!”. The quality of the participation is unique and amazing. This growing group of pros is willing to take part in discussions related to the developments of the Internet. Decisions are made in different places that are not necessarily connected to field practitioners and creators in contact with the next flow of autonomous Internet world citizens. One of the purposes of this initiative is to bridge this gap and think together freely of ways to keep the Internet an open ended network.
To join in send your request to:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/community/entry_community.cfm?area=210
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The International Portal for Teachers
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Join the eXplora Challenge! It’s a team-based contest for pupils in secondary school education at http://explora.eun.org.
· Form a team of 3-6 pupils to explore a topic of your own choice:
curricular, cross-curricular or extra-curricular. Present your project
using a high quality, innovative website or other forms of online multimedia.
· The teams with the best projects will receive cash or other
prizes and will be invited to take part in the eXplora Youth University
camp in autumn 2002.
· In the eXplora Challenge you get the chance to collaborate
in international teams via the Internet using powerful tools.
The eXplora Challenge gives you, as a pupil or teacher, and others interested in international collaboration a chance to work together online. It is an excellent opportunity for cross-curriculum projects and assignments. It will be exciting and rewarding for all eXplorers and gives you the chance to build and enlarge your international network.
Get to know more on the eXplora website http://explora.eun.org. You can find international partners, discuss topics to eXplore and learn about how to take part in the eXplora Challenge.
Info contact: Angela Andersson
angela.andersson@eun.org
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For those of you who are responsible for the ICT coordination in your school and interested in technical matters, we have begun to implement a special technical corner in the eSchoolnet portal for teachers. This area provides information and courses on metadata, search engines and video.
Help yourselves to these resources and do not hesitate to contact one
of our technicians if you have ideas to share:
Thomas Maier (speaks English and German)
thomas.maier@eun.org
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/Collaboration_eschoolnet/sub_area.cfm?sa=1250
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eSchola aims at showing good ICT practice in Europe. It gives schools, teachers, pupils, administrators, cities the opportunity to make visible what they are doing and enable others to learn from it. If you want your project to open up, if your city or region is especially focused on ICT and education, if you wish to celebrate Europe in spring and above all get a chance to win a nice big cash prize as a reward for your work…register!
http://eschola.eun.org
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A certain number of European schools have been asked to collaborate
with us on offering concrete descriptions of the way computers are used,
the rooms where they are situated, how many teachers and pupils use them
and the real meaning of those figures.
Take a look at the results of this very interesting initiative and
go inside those schools:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/practices_/content.cfm?ov=11200&lang=en
Open the pdf documents the schools have sent to get all the information.
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Projects and Initiatives
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If you are tackling the unfortunate issue of the respect - or rather disrespect - of women in the world, you will find a lot of resources on this topic on the Human Rights Watch web site. Most of the content is provided in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
http://www.hrw.org/women/
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Now Europe is available on the phone and in all languages.
Europe Direct is a service to help citizens find answers to their questions
about the European Union. It offers free telephone help lines for each
Member State, a direct response service via e-mail and links to information
and advice facilities at national, regional and local levels.
Europe Direct offers information on all sorts of subjects related to the EU. It helps you find out about your rights and opportunities as an EU citizen, and how to take advantage of them. It also opens a dialogue, enabling you to ask questions and to get advice.
Calls are free of charge and the list of numbers is available from the
myEurope web site:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/myeurope/content.cfm?lang=en&ov=11542
Or if you prefer, email Europe at:
mail@europe-direct.cec.eu.int
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The European Award for Languages is a Europe-wide initiative supported
by the European Commission. The aim of the Award is to promote best practice
in innovative and effective language learning in all schools and colleges,
and in lifelong learning.
If you are involved in an innovative project dealing with the learning
of languages, contact your national coordinator for all information.
The list of national offices is available from:
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/language/contact.html
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Until now, information on the use of ICT in the field of special needs education has been limited to National level sources – very little information has been available at European level.
In order to address this, the European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education has undertaken a major European wide investigation. This has lead to the creation of a dedicated web-based database with easily accessible information on policies, key issues, examples of interesting and innovate practice, key information sources plus future challenges in the field.
If you are teaching children with special needs we can offer you two tips:
A rich web site to consult and learn from:
www.european-agency.org
People to talk to and exchange with directly:
The virtual school’s special needs team
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/sv/vs-specialneeds/sub_area.cfm?sa=266
The eSchoolnet collaboration special needs expert:
http://www.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/Collaboration_eschoolnet/content.cfm?ov=10425&lang=en
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Some Dutch mathematicians have set up an experiment to follow the diffusion
of foreign Euro coins in the Netherlands and Belgium. They already have
more than 1000 people collaborating by sending their count at least once
a month. There is a website for the project, but this site is mostly in
Dutch. You may find an English summary at:
http://www.wiskgenoot.nl/eurodiffusie/engindex.html
Very interesting!
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Looking for Schools in Scotland?
"Scottish Schools Online" is a new searchable directory of schools in
Scotland, intended to stimulate easier communication between schools and
others.
Schools can update and edit their information, such as local authority,
postal and email addresses and website location, which is then checked
by a database manager to ensure a high degree of accuracy.
http://www.ngflscotland.gov.uk/schoolsonline/
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SCENT is the Sick Children's Educational Network for Teachers mailing
list.
This list has been set up to provide a forum to share questions and
answers on issues and concerns relating to the education of learners with
medical conditions. The list is intended to support professionals
in their delivery of education to learners in hospital, at home, in an
off-site unit or at a mainstream school.
More details can be found at:
http://www.becta.org.uk/inclusion/discussion/scent.html
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“La Seine aux mille visages aujourd’hui et il y a 100 ans », a
project where the river is taken as the core element for pluridisciplinary
work. You take the river as a reference and according to what you teach
(geography, history, languages, environment, literature, etc) you decide
which angle suits you for participation. This is a very good idea and I
hope it will inspire many of you.
Please note that this project is not only used for teachers but also
for the training of future teachers.
http://www.petit-prince-euro.org/SITES/siteseine/index.htm
Contact person: Rubén Ibañez
ruben.ibanez@versailles.iufm.fr
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Create Together
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Helena Pedrosa teaches French in Portugal and she would like to network
teachers of French around Europe/the world to enable them to find partners
for their classes easily when setting up projects and email exchanges.
She also sees this as a very effective ways to share teaching issues
and experiences.
Great initiative, one has to start somewhere :-) Help this colleague network!
Her email is:
nunilena@netvisao.pt
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Reading and Writing Skills, Comenius
A direct call from Norway:
“My name is Hilde Øen, and I work at Spetalen, an elementaryschool
in the southeast part of Norway. We are 275 pupils and 30 teachers at Spetalen.
In Norway there is a lot of focus on the reading and writing
ability among the pupils. Our new minister of education is not at all satisfied
by the results. At our school we have put this topic into our developing-plans
for next year. We want to find out what can be done to increase the reading
and writing skills. Wouldn’t it be great to learn from each other,
find the best teaching methods and develop new and better ways of teaching
our pupils? I am willing to take the coordinator-responsibility the first
year, but think fast! We can then apply for a preparatory trip to make
the final plans and preparations. I can also write the application and
mail it to those who are interested for approval, and then you have to
mail it to your national agents.
Come on! Take a chance and be a bit impulsive!
Working together across the boarders is a great experience! I
know, cause I have done it for 5 years! We hope that some of you out there
would like to join us! More exact plans will be mailed to those who are
interested, and they are of course open for your ideas as well! Remember
to think fast!
Regards from a hopeful group of teachers at Spetalen School , Råde,
Norway.”
E-mail: hilde.oen@rade.gs.of.no
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Our Swiss colleagues would like to know what teachers and pupils feel about the use of computers at school. They propose a set of questions to debate in the classroom and ask you to reply in the form your prefer: simple texts or drawings, individual or group work, CDROMS or videos, sounds or images. It’s up to you.
The questions are in French at:
http://www.educa.ch/dyn/9.asp?url=23853.htm
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This team is setting up a Comenius project for French speakers or learners of French. The purpose is to build a multimedia dictionary with pupils aged 12 to 15. There is already a Romanian partner and the preparatory visit is scheduled for October 2002 in Romania. If you are interested in this promising long tem partnership, please contact the coordinator before March 31, 2002.
Contact : André Rombauts,
ccm.ar.alleur@win.be
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The Scientific lyceum “Federico II di Svevia” of Melfi promotes the
4° edition of “Mediashow”, a moment of reflection about the development
and transformation of the contemporary world influenced by the Multimedia
communication.
For this event they expect the participation of schools from all European
countries: the Mediashow will last 3 days: 12, 13, 14, of April 2002. There
will be two dimensions: a workshop of multimedia works produced by the
participating schools and the 4° edition of Multimedia Olympiad, a
competition for the best.
Your school is invited to present works on a free theme for the workshop and to participate in the Olympiad with some students accompanied by a teacher (the participation and all the expenses except the travelling will be paid).
For further information you can contact two teachers Giuseppina Paternoster
or Orietta Laviano
Liceo Scientifico “Federico II di Svevia”
e-mail: liceomelfi@tiscali.it
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Do Not Miss Anything
or Anybody!
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TED, Net-learning for
Multiple Intelligence
Genoa, Italy
27 February - 1 March 2002
This education and technology fair is the biggest to take place in Italy.
Teachers are invited to take a look at innovations in teaching and ICT
use in the multimedia exhibition.
The event is specifically aimed at teachers and trainers, with a host
of informative workshops taking place along the exhibition.
Cutting edge technologies will be showcased, including new approaches
to audio, photography and video. eLearning and the Internet are key topics.
European Schoolnet's experts will be taking part.
Keep an eye out for their special workshops during the event.
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European Schoolnet Conferences and Events Page
We offer you a list of key upcoming conferences in the area of Education
and Technology in Europe which is updated weekly. Events are listed chronologically.
Bookmark this page to know what is going on!
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