Teachers' Newsletter No. 127
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April 2008
Dear colleagues,
Spring Day for Europe is back
with new opportunities to participate and make your voice heard on
European level. Invite an MEP or another political decision maker to
your school, share your events at school with others and take part in
one of the two competitions. European Schoolnet also invites you to
work together with us in projects or give your view on different
topics. More below!
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European Schoolnet and the European Commission invite you to take part in the Spring Day for Europe 2008 project. This year all activities will have as a focus the European Year of ‘Intercultural Dialogue’. We welcome you to register your school Take part in two Spring Day competitions! My Foreign Friend invites primary pupils to create a picture story in which they tell about a situation meeting someone from a foreign country. My Spring.film addresses secondary pupils to take video recordings of their Spring Day events and make a short video film about these events. In both competitions attractive prizes can be won. Deadline: 31 May 2008
Deadline: 30 June 2008
Can teachers use digital educational resources from other countries than the one they were originally made for? What about when they are in a different language? If you are a teacher, and interested in digital educational resources, this "travel well" learning resources survey is for you. In this survey we have collected 18 resources in different topic areas and in different languages. Each resource has 5 related questions. It will take you about 30-50 min to fill in the survey. Find the survey here New project kits in eTwinning for you! To celebrate the European Year of Intercultural
Dialogue, two new eTwinning project kits have been developed for
schools to run projects on this featured topic. As eTwinning is already deeply imbedded in intercultural dialogue with schools across Europe, two project kits have been created to give schools ideas on how to create eTwinning activities around this topic. The first kit provides an easy and fun way to discuss intercultural dialogue using body language while the second kit focuses on the issue of migration. |
Secondary school students all over Europe can either set up an easy and fun experiment in science to investigate the properties of materials, or explore a scientific discovery in the field of materials from 1800 to the present day. In both competitions they should produce a digital resource describing their experiment or their findings in history of materials. The entries will be downloaded on the Xperimania website (www.xperimania.net), where they are available for everyone to explore. The winners of both competitions are invited in the prize ceremony to Brussels in September 2008. During the two-day trip the winners will visit a chemistry research facility and meet top scientists in petrochemistry. Thermoregulation in the picture Thermoregulation is about the way organisms regulate their body temperature and thermographics are a fascinating way to illustrate this. The Polar Artist Group, member of the IPY, has both a creative as an educational agenda. The goal of the collection of thermographics is to learn a little from the animals and to understand our own thermoregulating-system a little better. It explains a big part of our energy bill. EUR-OCEANS European film contest : More than 1000 European school pupils express their voices The main objective of this film competition was to show, especially to the scientific community, how Climate change and oceans ecosystems are perceived by children from different European countries and also to encourage pupils to think about the issues and raise awareness through action. The scripts had to reflect the school’s children point of view and their capacity to objectively use scientific information to create a fictional or documentary style film. In the next step of the competition, representatives of pupils of 8 classes and their teachers will be invited to the European Commission, in Brussels (Belgium) on June 5th 2008, during “Green Week” to present and defend their films at the European final of the contest. Welcome to the ESOF teens community! The teens community is part of a greater event,
EuroScience Open Forum, ESOF 2008 which will be held in Barcelona next
July, 18-22, an open platform for debate and communication for the
European science community. The ESOF team invites you to enter their site to meet
students and professionals and share with them your research
experience. Within this interactive frame, students are able to
broadcast their best practices by uploading videos, pictures, files,
download information MOONSHOT 2010 -World HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELL SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGIES EDUCATION PROGRAM Moonshot 2010- World Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Science / Technologies education programne, is designed to educate as many students as possible by year 2020 about hydrogen & fuel cell technologies. Such technologies produce low to zero pollution when generating electricity for transport, stationary and electronic products. Education at scale will accelerate the usage of such technologies and combat Global Warming, Climate Change and Energy security. All EU Schoolnet members are welcome to join and together we can change the world. |
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Cooperate with European Schoolnet! Are you a teacher and interested to help European
Schoolnet to run a school competition for the 10 years of the Euro
currency? The deadline for applications is 15 May 2008 Participate to the YRE book and awards 2008 The edition of the YRE book 2008 is
under preparation. It will contain articles and photos of young
reporters from 15 countries who investigate their local environment. By the 13th of May 2008 YRE national coordinators will
select a maximum of 3 articles (in English) + 5 photos + 1 articles
written in the national language. Moreover, articles and photos selected will be passed to the international YRE jury who will award 7 articles and 3 photos among them. JOIN G&G NOW! The project is addressed to people aged over 55. It is
intended, through the involvement of students of VET or upper secondary
schools in the role of volunteer “digital facilitators”, to teach
internet browsing and e-mail use to the elders, fostering thus their
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FOOD 4U is a campaign promoted by the
Italian Ministry for Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies with the
aim to make youngsters aware of the importance of an informed food
diet, an indispensable introduction to health and well-being. Make it a date in Italy, between September and October 2008, to celebrate the best video spots made by the young students of Europe, at nice places in Italy. Send your pre-registration as soon as possible! Deadline: 26 May 2008 Juvenes Translatores - translation contest On 27 November 2008, Juvenes Translatores, the translation contest organised by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation, will take place for the second time. Secondary schools all over Europe will be invited to register pupils born in 1991. Contestants are free to choose any language pair from among the EU's 23 official languages. The prize for the 27 winners (one per Member State) will be a trip to Brussels in Spring 2009. During the trip, they will take part in an award ceremony where they will meet the Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban. Registration period: 1 September – 20 October
2008 Take part in the MEDEA Awards 2008! We would like to notify you of the MEDEA Awards 2008, in which innovative and excellent use of media in education will be rewarded, such as video, sound and media-rich applications. This competition wants to raise the awareness and need to implement media in education because "only when video and audio are routine components of education and online learning will we have an educational environment that reflects the media-rich world in which our learners now live." Deadline: 30 September 2008 |
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New teachers' website delivers a strong lesson in e-safety The launch of the TeachToday.eu website fills a major gap in the web awareness puzzle. Many teachers may feel the need to address the e-safety issues in class but fear that they know less about the new technologies than their pupils; others consider that such issues should indeed be addressed in school but don’t know how to tackle a topic that is outside the official curriculum and therefore unsupported. Insafe family e-safety kit in European households The kit builds on the expertise of the European network for internet safety awareness. It guides families with children aged between 6 and 12 years through the basics of the internet via the story of two youngsters, Alex and Zeta, their parents and the IT genius, Hedvig. Colour-coded chapters highlight four key e-safety themes: Security, Communication, Cyberbullying and Entertainment.
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MOLAN – Motivation in Language Learning MOLAN has the goal of exploring, analysing and then making accessible to a wide public examples of successful initiatives in the field of language learning within primary and secondary schools. In parallel the same will be done for higher education. The philosophy of the MOLAN project is that language learning and multilingual competence are of fundamental importance both to individuals and to society at large and that language learning at school level is a guarantee for developing multilingual competences. MOLAN seeks to identify institutional and system-based policies, strategies, and practices, which can be shown to motivate young people to take up and to pursue the learning of languages and which hopefully others will implement. It stands to reason that there are a large number of schools across Europe which, unknown to us, have developed and implemented successful language learning initiatives. Because of this, we kindly ask you to fill in a questionnaire seeking information on good practices that will help us to write case studies about these initiatives. |
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