Teachers' Newsletter No. 128 10 June 2008
Dear colleagues,
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You can still take part in the Spring Day for Europe activities until the end of this month. Take this opportunity to participate and make your voice heard at a European level. Find the latest news about chats, visits to schools and Europe Day. Many interesting international workshops with different themes await your involvement especially language teachers who will find a lot to interest them. Be active in the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and find out what is going on in your country. Read more below and start planning the next school year! | |
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Spring Day for Europe 2008 European Schoolnet and the European Commission invite and welcome you to register your school until the 30 June 2008. This year all activities have as a focus the European Year of ‘Intercultural Dialogue’. Spring Day schools celebrate Europe Day! Latest chats Margot Wallström encourages young people to make their voices heard.
Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus went back to school. Spring Day competitions closed! Both competitions closed on 31 May 2008 with altogether ca. 2,000 submissions. The winners will be announced on the website at the beginning of July 2008. MELT newsletter Although this first newsletter was designed for those taking part in the MELT pilots, it has now been made more widely available so that teachers can find out more about using the MELT Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) for schools.
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Teachers and pupils from the winning eTwinning Prizes 2008 projects headed to Vimeiro, Portugal, from 7-11 May to spend four days by the ocean getting to know each other and taking part in both ICT and cultural activities. With a group of over 100 people, everyone had a great time and many friends were made. eTwinning Conference 2008: Report and Photos The final report and official photos from the conference in Bucharest are now available. Share your views about games in school – join the ones that already replied and win a prize! We hear more and more about computer and video games. They are certainly getting more and more sophisticated, but what is their place in school? Are they useful or dangerous? What is your opinion? Please spend a few minutes completing EUN's survey to help us understand better the place of games in teaching and learning. You also find the opportunity to join a community of practice we are setting up for European teachers using games. What's more, everyone who completes the survey has the chance to win a games product. Deadline: 30 June 2008 Primary school ICT survey and community If you teach in a primary school, we invite you to share your ICT successes with others and join a new Europe-wide community of practice. European Schoolnet is conducting research on behalf of the European Commission into the effective use of ICT in primary schools. Participate in the STEPS survey and you could win an iPod! |
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Pre-registration for the Eurocompetition started! To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the euro, the European Commission will launch a poster competition for 10 to 14 years old pupils from the euro area. Teachers can pre-register for the competition on the Eurocompetition website and find out how to bring the euro to the classroom! ICT in Education workshop in Sardinia The Agenzia Scuola Nucleo Regionale in Cagliari, Sardinia, is organising a workshop on 28 – 31 October 2008. The aims of this workshop are to improve the education and training of teachers and teacher trainers and to develop the necessary skills in the knowledge society. The working language is French. There is a max. of 15 places available. Media educational events in Berlin and Europe We are in the process of putting the programme together for the 12 - 13 September Berlin Media Conference "Open Channels and Intercultural Dialogue - European Year of Intercultural Dialogue". Please contact us if you are interested in contributing to the programme of if you have any general ideas of what you would find useful to include. You can find the current summary here. Other connected event Golden Beggar - International Festival of Local Television, 18th-21st June 2008, Kosice, Slovakia.
11th Annual International Peace Pals Art Awards Children aged 5 - 19 from all over the world are invited to participate in this art competition. The theme this year is ‘Friendship’. Each design must include the message, “May Peace Prevail On Earth®”. Deadline: 30 June 2008 |
MOLAN – Motivation in Language Learning Do you have developed and implemented successful language learning initiatives at a primary or secondary school? Can these be shown to motivate young people to take up and to pursue the learning of languages and which hopefully others will implement? Then 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. Primalingua – we speak European “Primalingua” is looking for primary schools in different countries, which would like to participate in their part of the European Lifelong Learning Programme. On a web-based learning platform, primary school pupils, aged 8 – 12 years, work on interactive learning units. They discover other children’s lives in different countries, their environment and culture. The project starts in October 2008 and will end in June 2009 Language project: I speak football "I Speak Football" is an EU project to promote languages around the EURO 2008 Championships in Austria/Switzerland. This radio project has produced PODCASTS on the theme of languages and football including interviews with some well- known players and coaches. The podcasts are free for teachers and schools to download and play in the classroom. Language Teachers Based on the experience of our Speech Bubbles project we are offering a European teacher training course in October 2008 in Berlin. The deadline for application at the National agencies is the end of June. Please pass the message on to your colleagues. |
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‘Let’s Fight it together’: Award-winning Cyberbullying film now available free Childnet’s award-winning Cyberbullying film is now available as a DVD for schools in the United Kingdom to order free. ‘Let’s Fight it together’ is also available to an international audience by order through the digizen web site and to view online.
Discussing media literacy and youth protection in Stempenhof The third meeting of the Youth Protection Roundtable, YPRT, kicked off on 14 May, in the blossoming periphery of Nuremberg, Germany, with an exhibition of winning Safer Internet Day 2008 projects created by national finalist teams from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovenia.
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The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008 in your country The European Year of Intercultural Dialogue (EYID) 2008 takes place throughout the European Union. Each participating country has defined how it is implementing the Year. In this section you can find out more about EYID 2008 in your country. Photo competition “Cultures on my street” As the Union grows together in its diversity, the European Commission challenges YOU to capture your vision of intercultural dialogue and share it with the world in the competition “Cultures on my street”. All European residents, regardless of age or origins, are invited to participate. It’s as easy as grabbing your camera and stepping outside your front door. Deadline: 30 June 2008 |
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