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Issue 47 - March 2010 |
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Have you ever wanted to test your skills and creativity by building your own software add-on? Are you tempted to customise or improve the functionality of existing programs, create a macro that can be shared with others, or simply have some fun with technology? Now is your big chance and you can win big prizes for your efforts! Read more...
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European finalists from the Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, The Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom were invited to attend the award ceremony organised on 5 March 2010 in the e-Skills week closing event “Go DigITal!”. Read more...
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CeBIT 2010 opened its doors on 2 March 2010 in Hannover, Germany. This year’s theme of the most important fair for the IT business is “connected world”. Microsoft took this as an ideal opportunity for a dialogue on how IT can be a tremendous benefit for learning and skills development. Read more...
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Go digITal - the e-Skills Week closing event - took place on Friday 5 March 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. The event highlighted the need for more actions to encourage young people to study IT careers and develop e-Skills. Go digital featured a programme of plenary sessions, workshops as well as an exhibition and brought together students, IT industry representatives and education stakeholders. Read more...
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| PROJECTS |
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European Schoolnet's netbook pilot team was part of an international conference on "1:1 computing in education" organised by OECD, Worldbank and Interamerican Development Bank in Vienna last month. Read more...
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From May 2010 on, Scientix, the new web-based community for science education, will be available for teachers and researchers from all around Europe. This new user-friendly information platform, coordinated by European Schoolnet (EUN) on behalf of the European Commission (DG Research) will collect teaching materials from hundreds of European projects and make them available in a range of European languages on an on-demand basis. Read more...
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The second stop on the Xperimania Science Ambassadors’ tour was the Alcanede middle school in Portugal. Xperimania ambassadors led two workshops, during which students and teachers had fun with science. Read more...
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On 25 March, Androulla Vassiliou – EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth – officially opened the 2010 edition of Spring Day for Europe, discussing the initiative with a group of 16 year-old students from the European School of Uccle (Brussels) and highlighting the project’s contribution to enhancing education across Europe. Read more...
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ITEMS (Improving Teacher Education in Maths and Science) is organising in May 2010 two online training courses for teachers, on astronomy and on elementary functions and graphs. Participants can re-use the ready-made courses in their own teaching. Read more...
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As the May 2010 UEFA Champions League Final approaches, children throughout Europe are invited to try out over 300 game-based learning activities and to take part in Grassroots Day. This year’s themes for schools are ‘being a team player’ and ‘winning and losing’. European Schoolnet have been working with UEFA and the developers MotivatED to ensure activities appeal to young football fans across Europe and to ensure a good fit between the games and national curricula. Read more...
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During the 2009-2010 academic year 25 pilot schools have been teaching nanotechnologies in their classrooms with a wide range of materials, including videos, online animations, games, workshops, virtual dialogues, and virtual experiments based on existing research. We are now looking for the next generation of NANOYOU schools. Read more...
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| STUDIES & REPORTS |
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A new draft report 'Netbooks on the rise: European overview of national laptop and netbook initiatives in schools' will shortly be published on the Insight portal. The report was drafted on the basis of the information provided by Ministries in the Country Reports and the first results were presented during the eskills-week. Also European Schoolnet, in cooperation with Acer, is involved in a netbook initiative, the Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Netbook Pilot, started early in 2010. Read more...
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| UPCOMING EUN MEETINGS |
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8-10 April: eTwinning Professional Development Workshop - Evora, Portugal |
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08 April: NANOYOU Interactive Debate - Paris, France |
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18 May: eTwinning WGs |
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22-26 May: eTwinning Management Meeting |
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CeBIT 2010: Chancellor Merkel and Prime Minister Zapatero visiting Microsoft's Digital Classroom
Acer-European Schoolnet educational netbook pilot part of an OECD meeting on 1:1 computing
Coming soon: Scientix, DG Research's new science education platform
Netbooks on the rise: European overview of national laptop and netbook initiatives in schools
