EMINENT 2009 Conference organised in Lithuania

EMINENT, European Schoolnet’s annual conference was successfully organised in Vilnius, Lithuania from 26-27 November 2009. Participants from 30 countries, including teachers, policy makers, experts and industry stakeholders, attended the two-day event comprising a series of debates, plenaries and workshops. The conference was opened by Gintaras Steponavicius, Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania.

eLearning Awards winners announced at EMINENT 2009 conference

On 26 November in Vilnius, Lithuania, the ten winners of the 2009 eLearning Awards were announced. The top prizes were won by Maria Teikari from Finland, who won the Platinum ACER award in the category: “The e-Mature School - innovative teaching and mentoring”; Michel Neroucheff from Belgium, who won the Promethean Gold award for category “MST - best learning resource or object” and Maria Blasini from Italy who won the SMART Gold award for the category “Enabling students to use learning environments”.

ASPECT workshop in London at BETT Show

The ASPECT Best Practice Network is organising a workshop during the BETT Show in London on 13 January 2010 to explore the benefits of learning technology standards for discovering, creating, packaging, sharing and using educational content. If you are a publisher, an educational tools' provider or learning professional creating your own resources, this workshop will provide you with an understanding of some of the key technology standards that will facilitate and improve the impact of your work. Participation is free of charge but you need to register in order to reserve a place at the workshop that will be held at the Hilton hotel next to the Olympia exhibition hall. In order to receive an invitation and view the programme, please register at http://www.learningstandards.eu/bett.

Quality network for a European Learning Resource Exchange

European teachers are increasingly using digital learning resources as part of their teaching activities. Digital learning resources are made available to teachers through educational portals and digital libraries in many European countries. But can teachers use learning resources that originate from a country different than themselves? Or learning resources that are in different languages than that of the teacher or learners?

Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Networks

Teachers’ Lifelong Learning Networks (TeLLNet) is a new European Schoolnet-lead project. It aims to study the eTwinning network, which currently has more than 80,000 teachers, in order to understand the dynamic and multidirectional flow of social influence within such networks. It will do this through visualisation techniques, social network analysis (SNA) and a number of complimentary methods.

Call to all filmmakers: Produce a collaborative video!

Produce a video with your pupils and partners and enter it in the eTwinning video competition! The best five videos will be featured on the big screen at the eTwinning conference in 2010 and receive high-quality video cameras.

European Schoolnet prepares young European citizens to meet the challenges of 2020

On the occasion of the inauguration of the e-Skills week campaign and to celebrate the first highly successful meeting of the pan-European youth panel on online safety, European Schoolnet organised a breakfast press conference in Brussels on 9 December 2009.

Check out the STELLA final conference videos

The STELLA final conference took place in Nancy, France, on 18 November 2009 with more than 240 teachers participating. The conference presented interesting science education initiatives in France and other European countries, and wanted to stimulate discussion among the participants on how to make science education more attractive for young people.

One year down, one to go: Items in full swing

The two-year project ITEMS (Improving Teacher Education in Maths and Science) is now in its midway, and the courses and workshops organised for teachers are in full swing. The first international training course “Teaching geometry online” took place during the month of November 2009 with a successful participation of teachers from across Europe.

Get aboard Safer Internet Day 2010! Learn how to protect your privacy on internet

On 9 February 2010, Safer Internet Day will focus on privacy with the slogan "Think before you post!" and the aim of helping people make informed choices regarding the disclosure of their private information. Competitions, workshops, exhibitions, concerts and other initiatives will be organised all around the world. If you want to participate, contact your national awareness centre or your SID committee and keep posted on saferinternetday.org!

Take part to DPD and win Xboxes and a video production workshop!

Data Protection Day (28 January) is getting closer! Take the last chance to participate to the competition and upload your videos before the 7 January 2010. Winners will be invited to collect their prizes at the European Parliament on the Think Privacy event, where distinguished speakers will engage in a discussion on web 2.0 privacy and future concepts. School classes are welcome to join. For more information have a look at the website http://dataprotectionday.eu