Scholarship
to attend annual iEARN Conference
The
iEARN Australia Management Team announced in October that
it would be awarding a $1000 scholarship to help a participant
in the iEARN Asia project attend the iEARN Annual Conference
in Uzbekistan in July 2008.
We
have great pleasure in announcing that the scholarship
has been awarded to Liz Rout from Thomas Mitchell Primary
School, Victoria.
More
information about the conference can be found on the
conference website.
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Christmas
Card Project
Participants in the Christmas Card Project, have sent
Christmas cards to an orphanage for victims of war and
AIDS in Uganda. The project is coordinated by Judy Barr
from ST Paul's Anglican Grammar School, Warragul, Victoria.
Albert Kunihira who works at the orphanage has taken photos
of the children reading the cards they received last year.
You can see these photos on their website.
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iEARN
Asia/Pacific Conference 2007
Rob King, a member of the iEARN Australia Management
Team, represented iEARN Australia at the conference
in Tokyo, Japan.
Teachers
and educators attended for three days of presenting
ideas and sharing project information. iEARNers arrived
from all over Asia including Bangladesh, Iran, Thailand,
the Philippines, Sri Lanka and iEARN International was
represented by Bob Hoffman.
Read
Rob's report
to find out more about the conference.
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Training
for iEARN Asia Project
Teachers
in Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and Northern
Territory have attended workshops run by iEARN Australia
and the Asia Education Foundation.
The workshops covered the use of the iEARN forums and
how best to participate in the Learning Circles
and Teddy Bear Projects.
The
workshop participants are now involved in iEARN projects
with schools in Asia
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Partnership
with Asia Education Foundation
A collaborative partnership has been formed between
the Asia Education Foundation (AEF) and iEARN Australia
to foster collaboration and inter-cultural learning
between students in Australia and Asia.
Selected
AEF schools in Australia will be participating in two
projects with schools in Asia: The Teddy Bear Project
and Learning Circles.
Visit
the Asia Education Foundation website
to find out more about the work of the AEF.
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Solar
Cooking Project
This year all Year 7 students at Ararat Community College,
Victoria, were once again involved in researching, designing
and trialling solar cookers built from recycled materials.
The students tried a range of styles including box, panel
and parabolic cookers. A wonderful picnic day was held
and we introduced Learning Objects, Kahootz and Moviemaker
to the program this year.
On behalf of the Year 7 Project Team:
Jo Tate
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Australian
Youth Ambassador for Development Volunteer
Lucy Hopkins, an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development,
has gone to Bangladesh to work with iEARN Bangladesh
for 12 months. While she is there she is working on
developing youth programs.
Read
about her experiences and see more photos in her report.
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Christmas
Card Project
The Christmas card project is a highly successful project
in which classes make and exchange Christmas cards with
each other.
Judy Barr, coordinator of the Christmas Card project
has made a video to illustrate
how the project works.
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Honouring
Muriel Wells
Muriel
was honoured at a function at Melbourne University in
September, 2006. Muriel has been an integral member
of the iEARN Australian Management Team for 10 years
and has been significant in the development of iEARN
in Australia.
Muriel
devised and initiated the iEARN Teddy Bear Project .
As coordinator of the project she faciliated and mentored
many hundreds of exchanges between classes . Muriel
was awarded the Cable and Wireless Childnet Award in
London in 1998 in recognition of her achievements.
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ACEC
in Cairns
A combined delegation of eight representatives from
iEARN and the Asia Education Foundation attended the Australian
Computers in Education Conference in Cairns in October
2006. Delegates from New Zealand, USA and all states and
territories of Australia were treated to a variety of
stimulating sessions, which included a hands-on iEARN
pre-conference workshop and eight seminars related to
iEARN and AEF projects.
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Matilda
visits Tanzania
The iEARN Teddy Bear Project is one of the most popular
iEARN collaborative projects. Here we can see Matilda,
the kangaroo (and Joey) from Lindenow, Victoria, in class
with her news friends in Farkwa, Tanzania. The students
in Tanzania are looking at work sent to them by the students
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Volunteer
in Pakistan
Australian university student, Melissa Tylee, has spent
12 months working with iEARN Pakistan as part of the iEARN/WEC
exchange program. During her time in Pakistan, Melissa
helped the daily running of iEARN Pakistan's office, the
development of programs and the training of teachers in
classroom application of collaborative projects.
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iEARN
Asia/Pacific - 2006
In August 2006, 23 iEARN Coordinators from across Asia,
from Uzbekistan to Japan, India to Australia, met in Tokyo
to drive forward the development of iEARN project work
across the region. iEARN Asia/Pacific is an exciting new
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13th
Annual Teachers' Meeting and 10th Youth Summit, Enschede,
The Netherlands - 2006
Thirty students and teachers
from Australia attended the 11th
Annual Teachers' Meeting and 8th Youth Summit in Enschede,
The Netherlands in July. A special thrill of the conference
was teachers and students from Australia conducting presentations
on Australian initiated projects, Kindred and The Great
Apes Project. |
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9th
Annual iEARN Teachers' Meeting and 6th Youth Summit, Moscow,
Russia - 2004
Sixteen
teachers and students from Australia joined 500 other
teachers from 60 countries at the iEARN Teachers Meeting
and Youth Summit in Moscow in early July. From
Ararat Community College, St. Paul's Anglican Grammar
School, Bairnsdale Secondary College, Bairnsdale Primary
School, Bairnsdale West Primary School (all in Victoria)
and Alyangula Area School, Northern Territory, they conducted
workshops and attended
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Award to iEARN member Dianne Sullivan
Dianne
Sullivan, has been awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award
through the NEITA Foundation.
On the basis of a nomination of her students’ parents,
Dianne received the award for use of new technology for
learning, including her work in initiating and managing
the iEARN project, Treasure Eylandt. |
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