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TSUNAMI RELIEF EFFORTS - UPDATE.

iEARN has created a special bank account to receive funds donated for
Tsunami relief:

Account Name: iEARN-Earthquake
Account Number: 091-501964965
Bank Name: JP Morgan/Chase Manhattan Bank Bank address: 109th
Street & Broadway, New York, NY 10025, USA Swift Code: CHASUS33, BA
routing: #021000021

Bank wire transfer expenses will be covered by anonymous donors up to a maximum of US$5,000. This means that 100% of the funds raised will go directly to serve the people and schools in need until the $5,000 in expenses is reached.

In addition to creating this fund, iEARN reiterates its long-term commitment to school and educational re-development in the affected countries and will work closely with iEARN organizations in Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh for the distribution of funds as well as to plan and implement activities and long-term projects.

Furthermore iEARN is in the process of partnering with the American India Foundation (AIF) to leverage donations. The AIF is offering to match funds allocated to India both from iEARN International Relief fund as well as by other organizations (up to US$1million).

iEARN has created an International Disaster Relief Coordinating Committee, including Bob Carter, Eliane Metni, Yoko Takagi and Peter Copen, to work with iEARN people in the tsunami-devastated affected countries to allocate funds, develop recovery and rehabilitation projects focusing on children and education. The committee is planning actions and waiting for concrete requests on how to direct fundraised resources. The committee will then ask Ed Gragert to make
the recommended payments from the account. A place for representative teachers/students will be announced in the iEARN forum shortly.
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"My students have been doing IEARN projects for only two years. I am the Social Studies Chair at an International Studies Magnet School.
Before we joined IEARN we were building international partnerships one at a time. After joining IEARN, our international partnerships and collaborative projects have grown exponentially." - Freda Goodman, Riverwood High School, Atlanta, GA, USA

NEW YEAR'S GREETING TO iEARN -- View a greeting from Computer Teacher, Naren Solanke and his 5th grade students from Lions Vidyaniketan Washim School in India. http://www.iearn.org/happynewyeariearn.

REGISTER NOW FOR FEBRUARY 2005 iEARN ONLINE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES. Nine week interactive online courses begin February 21 - April 25th, 2005. Course listings and information on each course are available at http://www.iearn.org/professional/index.html. Early enrollment is recommended, as courses fill up quickly.

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Download the 2004-2005 iEARN Project Book:
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LOOKING FOR A NEW PROJECT AND SOME CLASS-TO-CLASS COLLABORATION? - REGISTER FOR LEARNING CIRCLES 2005: JANUARY TO MAY SESSION. The new session begins January 31 and ends on May 20 (15 weeks with a 1-week break in the spring). Learning Circle Placement forms are due on
January 15, 2005, though some late registrations may be accepted where space is available. If you want to be a part of the January session please go to: ttp://www.iearn.org/circles. Select and complete the placement form at:
http://www.iearn.org/circles/lc-placement.html. If you have any questions or need more information please contact Barry Kramer in the USA .

YOUTH GROUPS LOOKING TO BE INVOLVED IN INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD. Please join Crossing Boundaries: Youth in Dialogue About the Rights of the Child online discussion forums. For more information contact the project coordinator, Samara Shapiro, at sshapiro@cil-usa.org. Feel free to visit our website at www.cil-usa.org.

EXPLORING COMMUNITY LEARNING SPACES. Today, the word learning is associated with schooling. Whenever the term learning or education is used in any part of the world, it is directly associated with schools. Students, teachers, parents, community members are not aware of the indigenous knowledge and learning systems and cultures because
there seems no discussion or debate being carried out in schools. This project is aimed at helping explore the types and nature of the learning communities across the globe. Coordinated by Nooruddin Merchant , Naushad Khalique
, Kalsoom hani_aziz@hotmail.com>, and Naila Saad Khan in Pakistan.
http://www.iearn.org/projects/communitylearningspaces.html.

JOIN A NEW FRIENDS CIRCLE! Students at Hosni Mubarak Secondary School for Boys in Egypt write, "The word "Friends" proves that every one in the world is just a human and we are all humans, so it's our world.
We should defend it from bad ideas. We are all friends, it doesn't matter what is our nationality or our religion. The important matter is how to respect each other. If we became friends, sure we'll respect each other and be a one big family. By that, we'll forget our differences and spread peace everywhere." The project will deal with 10 activities to have a wide variety of options to allow all the members of a team to participate. Contact Ahmed Mosaad Hassan /
Marwan Mustafa Abd El Aziz / Khaled Abd El Latif Salah/ or Mr. Yasser Hussein Omar at , ,
, or
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NEW iPEACE PROJECT FORUM. iPEACE seeks to promote world peace and friendship. Contact Mostafa Nejati ,
Mehran Nejati , Azadeh Shafaei
, Armaghan Shafaei
, and Elham Shafaei
in Iran, Nuria Peguero
in the USA, or Raiya Mirza
in Pakistan. For more, see
http://www.iearn.org/projects/ipeace.html

SCHOOL IN EGYPT SEEKING PARTNERS FOR FIGHT AGAINST CANCER PROJECT.
Contact Ahmed Mahmoud Bastawy at the Middle East School, Egypt .

A DAY IN YOUR LIFE - DIGITAL PHOTO EXCHANGE. Students aged 13-19 digitally photograph some of their daily routines, such as mealtimes, getting to school, after-school jobs, home life, family traditions, etc. Afterwards, students will write a paragraph or two to accompany each photograph, explaining the photograph's contents and rationale. What are we looking at? Why did you take this photograph? What does it mean to you? The digital photos and captions will be exchanged by email, and, provided proper permissions are obtained from any people identifiable in the photos, may be included in a web gallery.
Contact Chris Baer at the Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in the USA.

THIRD GRADE CLASS IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, USA SEEKING PARTNER CLASS IN CHINA. Students would like to interview/develop a partnership as they investigate the question of what it is like to grow up in China.
Interested parties can contact Nancy at

ONE BOOK, ONE WORLD READING CIRCLE FOR TEACHERS. Interested in joining a reading group? The group's first selection is Purple Hibiscus, by Nigerian born author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. For more information, contact Susan Seyfarth or Celia Einhorn in the USA. A new forum has been created for book discussions: One Book, One World:
http://foro.iearn.org/.1df6d197/

INTERNATIONAL FOOD PROJECTS. Seeking partners to compare food tasting and videos. Each group would pick a recipe from a country and organize a booklet with ingredients, a detailed recipe, and pictures
or videos of making and finishing the food to send to other groups.
Partners would receive the booklets, pictures and videos, and make the other countries' food at home, take pictures and film videos, get together with others of their culture to try it. Interested?
Contact Ines Pearson in the USA . For
more about the Cultural Recipe Book Project, see
http://www.iearn.org/projects/foods.html.

SHARING HAPPINESS PROJECT. This projects calls for students, educators and other interested people around the globe to share what they have done or can do to make others happy and overcome hatred and conflict making this world a better place to live. Contact Erum Rahil
in Pakistan .

INTERESTED IN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS? Join in discussions on the new Open Source Forum: http://foro.iearn.org/.1df51f7c/.
Participants in Uganda and Iran are currently focused on Linux Based Thinclient (Using an Open Source).

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IN ADDITION TO ENGLISH, THE 2004-2005 iEARN PROJECT BOOK NOW TRANSLATED INTO ARABIC, FRENCH, AND SLOVENIAN. See http://www.iearn.org/projects/projectbook.html

CALL FOR CHAPTERS IN "GLOBALIZED E-LEARNING CULTURAL CHALLENGES" BOOK. Submission Deadline for Proposals: February 28, 2005. See
http://www.eworldlearning.com/callforchapters.html for more details.

GIMNASIUM #1, NUKUS, UZBEKISTAN CREATES WEBPAGE FOR BREAKING STEREOTYPES TOGETHER PROJECT AND LOCAL HISTORY PROJECT. See their contributions to Breaking Stereotypes at:
http://nukus1.connect.uz/break/. Join the project via
http://www.iearn.org/projects/breakingstereotypes.html. And, see their work on Local History at: http://nukus1.connect.uz/LH/. Join
the project via http://www.iearn.org/projects/localhistory.html

MAKE A DIFFERENCE ONE-MINUTE VIDEO CONTEST. Deadline for submission: 1 March 2005. Looking for a way to make a difference? Create a one-minute video telling the world how young people are speaking out, taking action and making a difference. Videos will be reviewed by a global panel of media professionals and displayed on the main UNICEF
website. The winning video will be the official Voices of Youth
public service announcement, receive prizes, and will be made available for broadcast around the world on The International Children's Day of Broadcasting. For criteria and to find out how to submit your video, visit
http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_1690.html

YOUNG ECO-HEROES SOUGHT. Action for Nature is seeking applications from kids 8 to 16 years old for its 2005 International Young Eco-Hero Awards Program. Cash prizes up to $500 will be awarded. The 2004 award winners include Janine Licare (14), who helps to save endangered animals in Costa Rica; Christina Faust (16) of Georgia, who studies the vegetation around streams to better understand how
plants contribute to the stream's ecosystem; and Salaar Khan (11) of Pakistan, who influences his neighbors to use cloth bags and eliminate the toxins created when plastic bags are burned.
http://www.actionfornature.org/eco-hero/index.html.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: UNESCO'S INFORMATION FOR ALL PROGRAMME. UNESCO calls for proposals for projects to be funded by its Information for All Programme (IFAP), an international information society initiative. IFAP furthers UNESCO's mandate to contribute to education for all, to encourage the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, and
to increase the means of communication between peoples. Proposals with budgets ranging from approximately US$25,000 (national projects) to US$45,000 (international projects) should cover one of three areas: information literacy; preservation of information; and ethical, legal, and societal implications of the information society.
Applications must be submitted no later than 20 February 2005. For this year, $750,000 is available for grants. See
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17828&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

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YouthCaN 2005 ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON APRIL 11, 2005. Every year, YouthCaN collaborates with organizations around the world to put together conferences at which youth exchange their ideas, findings, and knowledge about the environment. The conferences include students from local schools, as well as video conferencing with students in other locations. If you would like to participate or
join in any of the events, please contact youthcan@us.iearn.org>.
iEARN-USA (American Museum of Natural History, New York City) and iEARN-Lebanon (American Community School) are already planning to host gatherings. See http://www.youthcanworld.org for details and to
get involved! Students have chosen the theme for this year's
conference to be "Species becoming endangered due to human abuse."

12TH ANNUAL iEARN CONFERENCE - JULY 17-24 2005 IN DAKAR, SENEGAL.
The conference will be held at the Ngor Hotel. Want to present a workshop proposal at the conference? send an e-mail message to: and a workshop application will be sent to you automatically. Want to register to participate in the conference? Send a message to: .
Watch http://www.iearn.org for more information, or login to the 2005 Senegal Conference Discussion Forum at:
http://foro.iearn.org/.1dec18f9/. Youth are encouraged to join in the new 2005 Youth Summit Forum: http://foro.iearn.org/.1df4c295/ to
help organizers in planning the youth summit.

3RD WORLD YOUTH CONGRESS IN SCOTLAND, JULY 30 - AUGUST 8, 2005. The congress theme is "Young People working together for a sustainable world community". All applicants must be 18-25 years old on July 30,
2005 and will fall under four categories: Activists, Performers/Artists, and Young Journalists. For further details and an application form visit
www.scotland2005.org and register for our newsletter.

RECENT EVENTS

iEARN PAKISTAN ORGANISED A BRIDGE-TRAINING OF THE TRAINERS SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP AT KARACHI, PAKISTAN, DECEMBER 26-29, 2004. iEARN Pakistan organised and conducted Training of the Trainers workshop at Karachi. 19 educators from Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Northern
Pakistan, Hyderabad and Peshawar worked together to on sustaining the BRIDGE programs efforts and to plan the next 15 months of activities and events. See the details at:
http://www.iearnpk.org/TOT/index.htm

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