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iEARN IN ACTION #157 / August 12, 2004

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REGISTER NOW FOR iEARN'S ONLINE COURSES!
The registration for the next session of iEARN online professional development courses is now open to teachers worldwide. The nine-week interactive online professional development courses will take place in October 4 - December 5. Each subject-specific course includes twenty teachers
from around the world. After the nine-weeks, you will have begun working on a project which fits into your teaching schedule and meets your local/state/national standards.

http://www.iearn.org/professional/online.html

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Join us! iEARN Projects
Seeking Contacts, Contributions & Collaborators
ATTENTION iEARN PROJECT FACILITATORS!!! If you are currently facilitating a project, or are planning a new iEARN project, and would like to have it included in the 2004-2005 iEARN Project Description Book, please complete the project template below and send it to as soon as possible, but no later than the FINAL DEADLINE of August 20th.
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NEW PROJECT TEMPLATE
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1.Name of Project:
2.Brief one-sentence description of project:
3.Full description of project:
4.Age/level of project participants:
5.Timetable/schedule for 2004-2005:
6.Possible project/classroom activities:
7.Expected outcomes/products:
8.Project contribution to others and the planet:
9.Project language(s):
10.Curriculum area:
11.Names/email of initial participating groups:
12.Name of facilitator(s):
13.Email of facilitator(s):
14.iEARN Forum/Newsgroup where it will take place or is taking place
(or leave blank and one will be assigned):
15.WWW page of project (optional):

CULTURAL FOODS / RECIPE PROJECT SEEKING NEW FACILITATOR.
Thank you to Isabel Cristina Araujo Teixeira in Brazil for the wonderful facilitation of this project over the years! Isabel is now moving on from a project that remains very popular and active. If you are interested in volunteering as a facilitator of the project, please contact Diane Midness in the USA.

"IT'S WORTH READING" PROJECT.
In this project students can write book reviews and reports of the books they have read and would like to recommend to others. Interested? Contact Sobia Alam sobiaalam@hotmail.com and Afshan Haneef Khan in Pakistan.

"LIFE CYCLE OF A TIRE" PROJECT.
Join in a global investigation about tire production, processing, usage, disposal and recycling options available in countries around the world. Contact Christine Hockert in the USA .
http://www.iearn.org/projects/lifecycle.html

KNOWING ME IS KNOWING YOU (KMIKY) PROJECT.
A web-based collaborative project, focused on cultural awareness and intercultural learning. http://www.geocities.com/optionalcourse7a191/aboutourproject
iEARN participants can join in discussion in the Culture Forum:
http://foro.iearn.org/webx?50@@.1deb232f about the project themes, and their connections to various ongoing projects. Contact Andreea Silter in Romania .

HELP TO CREATE A LAWS OF LIFE PROJECT LOGO!
Young people worldwide are invited to submit essays about their laws of life in which they describe the rules, ideals, and principles by which they live, and explain the sources of their laws of life (i.e., life experience, religion, culture, role models, etc.). Participants respond to each other's essays and interact with each other electronically. In addition, the project is seeking help from participants to design a 2005 logo for the project. Participants are encouraged to submit
possible project logos, preferably in JPG format, as an attachment no larger than 100 kb by December 1, 2004 to the project facilitator: Natalya Cherednichenko in Ukraine .
Interactive Forum: Laws of Life (apc.iearn.values).
http://www.iearn.org/projects/lawsoflife.html

SPORTS PROJECT.
Interested in sharing information about your favorite sports? Want to talk with students in Iran about the participation of female athletes from Afghanistan in the Olympics in Greece? Any thoughts about why Americans in the US call soccer what the rest of the world calls football? Join these and other discussions in the Games and Sports Forum:
http://foro.iearn.org/WebX?14@@.f296b6e. Questions? Contact the student facilitators in Iran: Fereshteh Abbasi, Mina Sarmady , Fatemeh Malek , Mahsa Yousefzade , Samira Abnar .

NEW "TRAVEL PROJECT" IDEA.
Viviane from Lycee D'Oyack in Douala, Cameroun writes, "I am a French teacher. I would like to propose a new project on travel. Students share their travelling experiences by saying if they were good or not,if they learned something or not,and give some advice for others concerning the travel, his preparation and method of travel. Please respond if you are interested in participating in this project especially if you are interested in responding in French." See this topic in the Teachers Forum for more information: http://foro.iearn.org/webx?50@@.1deb0c31 Contact
Viviane in Cameroun at .

THE ECOLOGY OF THE CORAL REEF IN THE RED SEA.
Due to growing pressure on the shores of the Red Sea, there is an almost constant deterioration of the coral reef and it's inhabitants. / THE ECOLOGY OF AN EXTREME DESERT. Eilat is a small town in Israel amidst a desert which sees about an inch of rainfall a year. This affects the flora and fauna in the surrounding desert. The children of both projects are in the fifth grade. All are welcome to join in exchanges of
information and research on similar ecologies in your region!
Interested? Contact Dan Ofri in Israel .
Forum: YouthCaN http://foro.iearn.org/WebX?14@@.ee81c19

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Check it out! Resources, Contests, Web Sites, Announcements
(This includes resources that are not part of iEARN)

NEW iEARN POLAND WEBSITE! :-)
http://webnews.textalk.com/pl/view.phtml?id=1510

YOUTHGUIDE MEDIA PROJECT.
Youthguide is an online youth media project supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. The aim is to build up the first national (trilingual) multimedia platform for young people between 14 and 25 to publish their own texts and photos in the fields of politics, culture, sports and leisure.
Youthguide supports young people who want to become media makers as well as schools that want to do journalism, internet and multimedia projects. Contact Andreas Renggli in Switzerland andreas.renggli@youthguide.ch
www.youthguide.ch

ENTER YOUR iEARN PROJECT WORK IN CHILDNET ACADEMY PROGRAMME!
Children's charity Childnet International will soon launch its global Childnet Academy programme for 2005 which it runs in partnership with Cable & Wireless. The Academy competition is for young people 18 years and under who have developed online projects or have a new idea which will benefit other young people around the world. Children and young people can enter individually or as a school project.
Winners of the 2005 Academy will win a trip for two to Jamaica to participate in the Academy week programme.
For further information please visit http://www.childnetacademy.org or email .

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RECENT EVENTS

SHARE PHOTOS AND MEMORIES OF THE 11TH ANNUAL iEARN CONFERENCE IN SLOVAKIA! A message and photo board has been created on the conference website for you to post your thoughts, memories, photos, videos, etc. from iEARN 2004 in Slovakia!! Conference organizers will soon be posting a photo and video album containing hundreds of images from the conference and youth summit.
http://www.iearn2004.net
Participants have already started sharing their conference photo galleries including:
http://webnews.textalk.com/pl/article.phtml?id=40660
and
http://www.baumgartner.sk/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=34
and
http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4286123745&code=10957680&mode=invite&cmp=EM
and
http://www.yrphotos.co.uk/galleries/iearn2004/index.html

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iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit that empowers teachers and students to undertake projects designed to make a meaningful contribution to the health and welfare of the planet and its people. Started in 1988, iEARN is currently active in over 109 countries, with 1,000,000 students participating as part of
their educational process. http://www.iearn.org
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