iEARN Global Projects
October 23, 2009 — Lynne M BaileyiEARN – International Education & Resource Network – is one network that actively works to provide frameworks for global communication.
Melinda Galbraith at NECC 2009
I met Melinda Galbraith at 2009 NECC presenting information about iEARN and their global initiatives for student interaction and professional development. There are wonderful opportunities for international collaboration and building multicultural understandings through various disciplines. They have several active projects.This is from their most recent email update.
Download the 2009-2010 iEARN Project Book: http://www.iearn.org/projects/projectbook.html
For a full listing of iEARN projects, see: http://media.iearn.org/projects
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1. JOIN THE GET TO KNOW OTHERS PROJECT. “Dear friends, I am writing to invite you and your students to join the Get to Know Others project for the 2009 / 2010 academic year. This year our focus is Swine Flu and Clothes with Religious Meanings.” From Ahmed Abd-Elsattar in Egypt. Get to Know Others is a project in which students study their own culture, traditions, and ways of life. Students make comparisons of their culture and other cultures to find similarities and differences. See http://media.iearn.org/projects/gettoknowothers
2. A VISION CREATIVE WRITING ANTHOLOGY. Join students from Belarus, Oman, and Suriname who are currently sharing their creative works in the project forum. A Vision is an anthology of students’ writings on various literary genres- essays, stories, poems, and poetical sketches, which aims to showcase young people’s thoughts, viewpoints and insights of the things around them and even across borders, regardless of cultural and racial diversity. Its purpose is to use art and the medium of creative writing to demonstrate that, despite differences, teenagers around the world share the same hopes, fears, interests and concerns. This magazine is dedicated to a vision of cooperation and friendship among the people and governments of the world, and to the myriad of personal visions that make us all human. To join, visit the forum linked on http://media.iearn.org/projects/avision
3. WOULD YOUR STUDENTS LIKE TO BE PART OF A PEN FRIENDS CLUB? The Pen Friend Clubs of Japan are organizations of young boys and girls exchanging letters with friends within and outside the country and thus enjoying various activities through friendly correspondence. The members are mainly elementary, junior or senior high school students. For over 50 years, the Pen Friend Clubs of Japan has matched wonderful pen friends for Japanese and non-Japanese boys and girls from all over the world. Would you like to con nect with them? Post your message in the new Pen Friends forum, linked from http://media.iearn.org/projects/penfriends. For more information, Contact Emiko Asada <emiko.asada.yw@jp-post.jp> in Japan.
4. INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL MURAL EXCHANGE (IIME) 2009. Already, 72 classes of 61 elementary/high schools from 15 countries have joined us this year. 15 countries – Canada, Cyprus, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Pakistan, Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, USA and Zambia. This year’s registration is already over but as we are preparing for IIME 2010, please let me know if you are interested in joining us in 2010. I know many schools are looking forward to participating next year. Please submit your entry sheet for IIME 2010 to Atsuko Shiwaku in Japan at <jam@artmile.jp>. See JAM’s website. http://www.artmile.jp and to connect to the iEARN forum, see http://media.iearn.org/projects/iime
5. HARMONY 4 HUMANITY PROJECT SEEKS SUPPORT FOR PROJECT PARTNERS IMPACTED BY RECENT EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA. From Becky Ivory at Riverview Jr. High in Utah, USA. ”Hello friends! As you know, Padang, Indonesia was recently severely damaged by an extremely large earthquake. Unfortunately, one of our classrooms that we exchange videos with is located in that very city. Fortunately, they all survived, but their school is destroyed and many are left homeless.” See their fundraising video and help us them raise awareness and funds.
http://teachertube.com/members/viewVideo.php?video_id=134433&title=Harmony_4_Humanity_funraiser_for_Padang__Indonesia Fore more about the Harmony 4 Humanity Project, see http://m edia.iearn.org/projects/h4h
6. NEW PROJECT PROPOSAL – HANDMADE GREETING CARDS. Interested in a new project exchange among students creating greeting cards and then trading them globally to learn about arts and culture? Contact Cassie Raynel in the USA <wildart@wildblue.net>.
