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| SUMMARY |
Issue 46 - February 2010 |
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| HIGHLIGHTS |
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Students and IT professionals are invited to post on the e-Skills week blog on four topics: Gender issue, entrepreneurship, green IT and Digital expression. They should write from their perspective on these subjects. On the blog you can also watch the viral video of the e-Skills Week campain Read more...
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"Go digITal!", the e-Skills Week closing event, will take place on 5 March 2010 at the Square-Brussels meeting centre, in the heart of Brussels. The event will be the culmination of the e-Skills Week, a European awareness raising campaign which seeks to inform students and young people about the diversity of careers offered by IT sector. In this context, we are pleased to invite you and your pupils to register for this unique event which includes an expo, workshops and closing party Read more...
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| COMPETITIONS AND ACTIVITIES |
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Activities as part of the European e-Skills Week campaign are available on the portal at http://eskills-week.ec.europa.eu. From 1-5 March 2010, the European e-Skills Week will highlight the growing demand for skilled ICT users and professionals to drive a competitive and innovative Europe. This exciting campaign seeks to inform students, young professionals and SMEs about the vast range of opportunities that ICT-related jobs present. Read more...
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| NANOYOU |
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Nanoyou invites you to contribute to its upcoming travelling exhibition! Take part in our photo contest on “My intelligent environment”. What does my intelligent environment look like? What does it bring you and what does it take away from you? Read more...
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Do you want to know more about Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies?
Watch NANOYOU's video and discover the secrets of the Nanoworld.
The video is a perfect introduction to the strange new world of Nanoscience, narrated by Stephen Fry. Read more...
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| PROJECTS |
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Acer, the second player worldwide in the PC market, has given green light to its education project aiming at introducing schools to a new kind of interaction between teachers and students through the use of netbooks. In partnership with European Schoolnet, an initial pilot will be carried out in six different European Countries. Read more...
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The newly launched Te@ch.us project sets out to develop an online community aimed at helping teachers to learn about Web 2.0 and give them the knowledge and skills to integrate it into their teaching in class at school. Recent studies show that although there is some evidence of innovative use of web 2.0 by teachers in the classroom, this is quite rare and usually takes the form of grass-root initiatives driven by single, motivated teachers. Read more...
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From February to April the Xperimania Science Ambassadors will be on the road to demonstrate the fun side of science to pupils around Europe. Due to the high number of interested schools in the Science Ambassadors’ call run in autumn 2009, the jury decided to reward three extra schools with the ambassadors’ visit. Read more...
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Safer Internet Day saw the launch of the eSafety Toolkit online, available at www.esafetykit.net. The site is based on the printed ‘family toolkit’, which was developed in 2008 by the Insafe network and Liberty Global/UPC within the framework of the EC's Safer Internet programme. Read more...
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On 5 February, the winners and runners-up of the eTwinning Prizes 2010 competition were awarded during a prize-giving ceremony in Seville, Spain. Read more...
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| STUDIES & REPORTS |
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This paper reports on the experiences of the first large scale effort to share educational resources for schools in Europe. As such it does not address authoring or the use of learning resources, but provides experiences of interest to any organisation wishing to act as an educational content broker, matching supply with demand. Read more...
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The Study of the impact of technology in primary schools (STEPS) provides the most detailed picture yet of national ICT strategies and their impact in primary schools in the 27 countries of the European Union, as well as in Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway. Read more...
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| CALL FOR CONTENT |
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In 2010, the FuturEnergia school programme invites teachers with their classroom to contribute to the FuturEnergia Online Magazine and win wonderful prizes. Don't miss the opportunity to enhance Energy Education in your school! Read more...
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| UPCOMING EUN MEETINGS |
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02 March: e-Skills Week opening event - Hanover Germany |
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05 March: Go DigITal! e-Skills Week closing event - Brussels, Belgium |
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08 March: ASPECT - WORKSHOP in Lisbon - “Produzir normas para as tecnologias de aprendizagem” |
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08-09-10 March: ASPECT - 4th Consortium meeting in Lisbon |
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11-13 March: eTwinning Professional Development Workshop - Gothenburg, Sweden |
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8-10 April: eTwinning Professional Development Workshop - Evora, Portugal |
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e-Skills Week: check out the exciting activities at European level
NANOYOU picture contest
Experiences with the Learning Resource Exchange for schools in Europe
STEPS: Study of the impact of technology in primary schools
