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Issue 50 - Summer 2010 |
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The European Commission has launched Scientix (www.scientix.eu), a new web portal targeted towards teachers, researchers, policy makers, local actors, parents and anyone interested in science education. Scientix gives access to teaching materials, research results and policy documents from European science education projects financed by the European Union and by various national initiatives.
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Since 2001, the eLearning Awards competition has been run by European Schoolnet and supported by key industry partners. Ten years after its launch, the eLearning Awards remain Europe's leading competition to reward excellence for the best use of technology in education.
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| MATHS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
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Teachers and students from all over Europe are invited to take part in U4energy, a new, challenging, pan-European competition for primary and secondary schools. The aim is to encourage them to contribute innovative ideas on reducing energy consumption and to raise awareness on how to use energy more responsibly. Read more...
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As a closure of the successful Xperimania tour, the Science Ambassadors visited Stari trg pri Ložu in Slovenia on 1 June 2010. During the three workshops that were organised, the ambassadors managed once again to convince the students of the fun side of science. Read more...
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Publishers, individual authors and schools creating digital learning resources are increasingly aware that Learning Technology Standards can assist them in making their content more visible, and easily accessible. In order to celebrate the achievements of all those who have already adopted Learning Technology Standards, and encourage further adoption, individuals and organisations will have the opportunity to apply for the ASPECT Award. The award criteria take into account Licensing, Metadata and Delivery. Read more...
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The ASPECT project has organised three teacher workshops for a group of 40 mathematics and science teachers from Belgium, Lithuania, Romania and Portugal. All three workshops have combined straight-forward assignments with more free-browsing activities in order to obtain first-hand, direct feedback from the teachers. This article presents some of the preliminary findings of the third workshop held in Lisbon in May 2010. Read more...
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In May 2010, the ASPECT Summer School gathered 40 teachers from across Europe to learn about content packaging and integration of resources into learning platforms. We interviewed several teachers to know what they think about content standards, digital learning resources and using these in their day-to-day teaching. Find out here what they said!Read more...
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The European Schoolnet's Learning Resource Exchange and the ASPECT Best Practice Network organised a two-day workshop at the EUN Office in Brussels on 15 and 16 June 2010. The presentations are now available on the ASPECT website. Read more...
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Raise the interest of your students in science and technology careers! After last year's successful first edition, the 2nd European Innovation Summit will take place from 11 to 14 October this year in the European Parliament in Brussels. Like the 2009 premiere, it will be opened with a session entitled "Europe's Future Nobel Prize Winners", aiming to increase students' interest in science and technology careers. About 200 secondary school students from 14 years onwards from all EU Member States are invited to attend this event in the "Hemicycle"; many more will be able to follow it online. Read more...
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| UPCOMING EUN MEETINGS |
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16-20 September: eTwinning Professional Development Workshop - Istanbul, Turkey |
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21-24 September: eTwinning Management meeting (CSS/NSS) - Brussels, Belgium |
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23-27 September:eTwinning Professional Development Workshop - Slovenia |
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29 September-04 October: eTwinning Camp 2010 - Malaga, Spain |
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29-30 September: Policy Innovation Committee meeting |
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30 September-01 October: Steering Committee meeting |
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Scientix launched: the new web-based community for science education
Submit your entry for the eLearning Awards 2010 today!
ASPECT Awards: awarding learning technology standards adoption
