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Issue 51 - September 2010 |
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| HIGHLIGHTS |
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This year, EMINENT is organised in conjunction with Uddannelsesforum (Education Forum), a major symposium which attracts more than 2,000 key people from the entire educational sector in Denmark including policy makers, teachers, ICT coordinators. Uddannelsesforum is organised by UNI-C, The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research. The EMINENT 2010 programme is divided into two main parts: EMINENT Classical programme on 8 November 2010 and Education world wide' & EMINENT for teachers at Uddannelsesforum on 9-10 November 2010. Policy makers members of our networks are invited to register for both events. Read more...
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the eLearning Awards, European Schoolnet invites all schools and teacher training institutions from Europe and beyond to take part and register at http://elearningawards.eun.org Read more...
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The e-Skills Manifesto - A Call to Arms, authored by Ade McCormack - Financial Times columnist, adviser and ICT market commentator - makes its European debut today. Teasing out the strengths, opportunities and challenges ahead for Europe, the book is universally endorsed by the European digital technology industry sector as an outstanding reference text for policy and decision makers. Read more... |
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The Swedish National Agency for Education's investment into raising the ICT and media competence of teachers has fulfilled the municipalities' need for competence development. Read more... |
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The Compendium of ICT in education networks, published by European Schoolnet, provides stakeholders with a reference, and encourages international exchanges and knowledge sharing between organisations with similar missions. It identifies the networks active in ICT in education on the five continents, and highlights their specific field of skills and priorities at the beginning of the 2010 decade. Read more... |
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Log in at scientix.eu, the community for science education in Europe, and share your back to school experiences with other teachers in the fora. Explore the multiple sections and services Scientix has to offer: news, events, project reports, teaching materials that can be translated on demand. Read more... |
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From September 2010 onwards, 240 classes in six countries will start the school year equipped with Acer netbooks. The participating countries are France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Turkey and the UK. This is part of the on-going Acer-European Schoolnet Educational Netbook Pilot. The pilot started already in January 2010 with ten classes in each countries. Despite netbooks still being a new phenomenon in educational settings, there are several projects around the world where each learner has a personal computer, allowing for one-to-one (1:1) pedagogy. Read more... |
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September is here already, and offers the ideal moment to review the past 6 months, reset priorities and establish the agenda for the rest of the year. The Insafe network enters its 6th year in October 2010 and has certainly come a long way in the six years since its launch in October 2004. Read more... |
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The Xperimania (www.xperimania.net) Science Ambassadors tour in spring 2010 reached nearly 400 students in schools across Europe. Both teachers and students were very happy with the science workshops: "I never thought chemistry could be so much fun," was how one participant summed up his experience. Read more... |
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| SCHOOLS COMPETITIONS |
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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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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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More and more teachers are registering their innovative projects for the eLearning Awards. A gallery displays the projects already submitted: Check it out and vote for your favorite projects at elearningawards.eun.org! Read more... |
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European Schoolnet and Microsoft announced a new eLearning Award to reward outstanding teachers in Europe for their work with ICT in education. As part of their work with innovative teachers, Microsoft is supporting the eLearning Awards 2010 and invites all teachers to apply to the special category for outstanding teachers. 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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On 17-19 September 2010 the SPICE teachers and science education experts from 16 participating countries will meet for the second time to discuss and analyze innovative pedagogical practices in maths, science and technology. Read more... |
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ITEMS (Improving Teacher Education in Maths and Science) is organising in October 2010 two online training courses for teachers: "Electricity" and "Introduction to functions – Linear function". Participants can re-use the ready-made courses in their own teaching. Read more... |
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| LEARNING RESOURCES |
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SE@M 2010, the 4th International Workshop on Search and Exchange of e-le@rning Materials aims at bringing together researchers and professionals working with learning resources -publishers of learning resources and technologies, managers of learning infrastructures and learning resource repositories, learning professionals and practitioners. SE@M 2010 takes place on 27-28 September 2010 at Barcelona, Spain and is organized in coordination with EC-TEL 2010. Read more...
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| UPCOMING EUN MEETINGS |
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09-10 September: ITEMS management meeting, Alicante, Spain |
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10-12 September: ITEMS teachers conference, Alicante, Spain |
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16-20 September: eTwinning Professional Development Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey |
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17-19 September: SPICE 2nd experts and teachers panels meetings, Lisbon, Portugal |
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20 September: SPICE management meeting, Lisbon, Portugal |
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18-19 September: Acer pedagogical coordinator meeting |
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21 September: Aspect webinar |
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27-28 September: SEAM workshop |
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04-08 October: Scientix/Nanoyou joint workshop, Brussels |
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Submit your entry for the eLearning Awards 2010 today!
Back to school on Scientix portal: join and share!
Insafe sets its priorities for the year to come 
ASPECT Awards: awarding learning technology standards adoption
