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SchoolNet Global News
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British Council Supports SchoolNet Global
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SchoolNet Global teacher members and their pupils can join international collaborative projects and work with other teachers and children around the world on the environment, world peace, countries and cultures.
Together they create collaborative online magazines built in take2theweb, like the Sustainability Project pictured left.
Now the British Council is supporting UK schools who wish to create international partnerships through SchoolNet Global.
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International Education Week and National Tree Planting week marked the launch of the latest International Collaborative Project from SchoolNet Global.
Schools from 13 countries worldwide are so far involved in Sprit of the Trees, an international tree planting project designed to link in with the 2012 - capturing the spirit of the Olympic Games. Spirit of the Trees aims to involve 2012 schools from around the world to plant trees as a symbol of unity, collaboration and friendship. Children from Canada, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Northern Ireland, Qatar, Scotland, USA and Zimbabwe are the first to get involved.
Once children have planted their trees, they send a photograph for publication on SchoolNet Global, and participate in a number of creative curriculum projects including poetry, dance, art, drama and games. Children then record and publish their experiences on SchoolNet Global for the world to see.
Colette Cotton, the Project Co-ordinator says, "We are absolutely thrilled with the response we have had so far. We even have a school in the Philippines whose children are naming their 32 trees after Year 6 children in an English school. It's a wonderful opportunity to create global links in the classroom and help children make friends around the world.
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Evaluate has published a stunning Interim Evaluation report for SchoolNet Global. Evaluations are carried out by classroom teachers, based on a three week study of the resources. Teachers will now go on to use the projects in school for a further six weeks, after which the full evaluations will be published.
Evaluate is the Digital Evaluation Service appointed by the DfES to assess products registered on Curriculum Online. It is partnership between learnthings and The Guardian.
Here are some extracts:
As a result of using SchoolNet Global, I would expect children to gain a greater understanding of the lives and culture of others around the world. I think SchoolNet Global will act as a motivating factor, encouraging children to produce their highest quality work, in the knowledge that it will be shared with many other people around the world. Pupils should also benefit from the process of organising, refining and presenting their work as well as developing ICT skills by learning how to upload their work onto the web. As a result of using this resource, I hope that children's self esteem will be boosted and that they will be inspired to produce some purposeful high quality writing and artwork.
Read the full evaluation
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Intuitive Media Continues SchoolNet Global Sponsorship |
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With more than 550,000 participants in 34 countries, SchoolNet Global is officially the biggest contributory children's website in the world. Intuitive Media continues to bring together children from around the globe by sponsoring this highly successful project - and you don't have to pay a penny for it.
SchoolNet Global was originally designed in 1998 by Intuitive Media and Ultralab to develop participative learning on the web and has evolved into a truly International project. Since its beginnings, SchoolNet Global has grown so that there are now over half a million young people, aged 4 to 18, who have been involved with making SNG what it is today.
The site is now an online resource base for teachers, a place for children to share their stories with the world and a leader in the development of Global Education. Teachers benefit from a range of resources, including Lesson Plans, which fully support all levels of the National Curriculum. SchoolNet Global is a rich and highly valued resource which helps teachers to introduce and embed Citizenship, Communication and Internationalism alongside ICT in the curriculum. Children can experience writing for publication, which in turn builds their self-esteem when they see their work online. Jessica, a pupil at St Mary's Primary School, Folkestone, told us:'I feel shy but excited at the thought that everyone in the world could see my work.' Bob Hart, Strategic Director at Intuitive Media, is keen to continue the work of SchoolNet Global hence the ongoing sponsorship, ensuring the resource remains free to users across the globe:"SchoolNet Global has one clear aim - to make the world a bit safer by bringing children from different countries, backgrounds and cultures together in friendship and collaboration. It's marvellous and it's free - a gift from the Intuitive Media team to children everywhere." You can join SchoolNet Global here and help create the best compendium of children's work about their world… Our world.
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Mississippi School Joins SchoolNet Global |
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Mississippi children who have recently joined SchoolNet Global are participating in a SchoolNet Global Collaborative project - research on birds in their local habitats. Children are sharing their findings and discovering that there are more similarities than differences. "We are more alike than we are different," is a phrase often heard in Kate Roberts' class at Henderson Intermediate School, Mississippi USA. This view was clearly demonstrated when the children met with a SchoolNet Global partner school in the UK as part of the project.
Starkville Daily News have reported on the experience of the children taking part in the collaborative study and described SchoolNet Global as: "...the only site in Mississippi where teachers and children around the world create projects of common interest."
Both classes have participated in bird counts and shared graphs and information about their findings. As well as learning about similarities in the bird life of their countries, children also discovered the similarities in their own lives.
Kate Roberts, Programme for Enrichment of Academic Knowledge, described the video link up as "a wonderful experience." She said, "These students will work in a global economy. They need to be able to look at things from different perspectives."
After talking live to their new friends, children from both classes created web pages on SchoolNet Global about their experiences. Sarah R says, "We really liked chatting with you! Thank you for telling us about yourselves, and your school. We liked your accents. We want you to come see our birds."
Read children's reports:
Sarah R
Caroline and Morgan
Maisey and Kirsten
Find out more about SchoolNet Global
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Look no Further - SchoolNet Global is Here |
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SchoolNet Global in Norway
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Intuitive Media joined 200 teachers and educators from 26 European countries, USA, Philippines and Iran at a conference held near Helsinki, Finland. Their goal was to find a way for schools to collaborate with each other using ICT, bring an international dimension into schools and redesign education to enhance the presence of ICT across the curriculum.
Colette Cotton, Intuitive Media International Teacher Partner reports, "As speakers gave their presentations, it became evident that many were trying to create a project that already exists as SchoolNet Global. When they heard what SchoolNet Global had to offer, many schools wanted to join. The chief education officer for special needs in Espo has already presented SchoolNet Global to some of the 80 schools she works with." Colette adds, "Most of the schools working collaboratively had not identified a project or a platform to work with and had no guidelines to help them. SchoolNet Global offers the ideal environment for international collaboration and provides teachers with all the support and information they need."
The conference was organised by the European Schools Project, which is funded by the European Commission.
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Help the Tsunami Families |
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"Please Help"
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SchoolNet Global represents the thoughts and concerns of children around the world. When the South East Asian Tsunami disaster happened, SchoolNet Global member Sophie made an empassioned plea to the world to take action to help the victims. She is joined by other children around the world who have been moved to publish their feelings about this disaster that hit at the global heart of the world's population.
Their pages, which are published in SchoolNet Global, exhibit how deeply this disaster has touched the hearts of young people and show a deep sympathy and concern for the Tsunami victims.
Read Sophie's Plea for help
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SchoolNet Global - Children's Messages for the Future Flood In |
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La Paix et la Guerre
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Children from all corners of the globe have been writing about their hopes and fears for the future as part of a new collaborative project in SchoolNet Global. The Message for the Future Project, launched during the UK's Education Week 2004, included exhibitions of children's work at Canterbury Cathedral, and has so far published messages from children in France, Germany, Spain, Poland, England, Canada, USA, Finland, Bulgaria, Australia, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, and South Africa.
Children do not need to be members of SchoolNet Global to contribute to the project, and many are contributing in their mother tongue. SchoolNet Global International Teacher Partner Colette Cotton has been working around the clock to provide translations of the pages into English, helping to build an exciting and valuable resource for students learning to communicate in each other's languages.
Colette reports, "No matter where children live, their hopes and concerns are remarkably similar. They are calling for peace, tolerance and understanding; a future with less pollution and a cleaner, healthier environment. It is incredibly moving to read some of their words."
Visit the Message for the Future Project
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SchoolNet Global Partner wins National Teaching Award |
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Dr Baldev Singh receives his award
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Dr Baldev Singh has been awarded the National Teaching Award for Innovation in Education for his outstanding work creating international collaborative projects. Dr Singh, is Head of IT at John Cabot City Technology College and has contributed to SchoolNet Global by creating the Road Map to Peace Project
The National Teaching Awards, which were televised in October, are chaired by Lord Puttnam and "celebrate the crucial role that teachers play in the lives of our children and our future as a nation."
The Awards Judges said of Baldev: "Creative and innovative, he takes his ability to teach into so many forums. Yet he retains the essential quality of humility that enables him to interact with young people, on their level, exciting and motivating them as only a really gifted teacher can."
Dr Baldev Singh and his colleagues are currently using take2theweb to create an Intranet for the College.
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New Collaborative Project on SchoolNet Global |
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Sending recycled goods from Swindon to South Africa
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SchoolNet Global has just announced the arrival another exciting collaborative project:
Children from schools in the UK and abroad are working on joint citizenship and community projects using the latest in communications technology. The project stretches and challenges highly able, gifted and talented children to undertake and publish their projects within strict time limits.
To date children have worked on international recycling projects, children's rights and a collaborative art project.
SSlinkS has been founded by Leaden Hall School in Salisbury, UK, Peatmoor Primary School in Swindon, UK, and Dihlabeng Christian School near Lesotho, South Africa. The project also involves schools in Spain, Italy, France and the Czech Republic.
Sally Litherland, Leaden Hall School, says, "We hope to achieve a better understanding of how much we have in common with peoples of different socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. This project also provides a chance for children to improve their skills, especially ICT, through their involvement in REAL projects not textbook exercises. Ultimately it provides an opportunity for the children to see the world and not just the playground.
SSLinkS uses take2theweb technology and is sponsored by Intuitive Media.
To find out more about the project, read the SchoolNet Global Cultural Conversations Magazine, Issue 9.
If you would like to join this or other collaborative projects, please Contact Us
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One Giant Leap for Education |
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Canadian and British children meet each other
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Children in Folkestone UK, Victoria Canada, and Maryland USA, are enjoying the benefits of new technologies through a trans-global collaborative project that also involves schools in Norway and India. As part of the SchoolNet Global My Culture project, children from St Mary's Primary School, Worcester Preparatory School and Doncaster Elementary School are using Apple iChat to talk live to each other about their homes, their lives and their cultures, sharing concerns and finding that there are so many similarities between their world and the worlds of others.
Doncaster Elementary and St Mary's had their first link-up on Monday 7 June. "Children were immediately aware of the eight hour time difference, the Canadian children had to come to school early to begin the session at 8.30 a.m. Pacific Time, while our children had to stay on late." The children had previously discovered that they had a second language in common, so their initial greetings were made in French.
John Bird, headteacher at St Mary's School in Folkestone has enjoyed witnessing the children's enthusiasm. He described the project as, "One small conversation by children... one giant leap for education."
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Children Around the World Communicate |
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Learning about each other
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SchoolNet Global, a project which promotes global connections between children, has 34 countries taking part. Now GridClub is gaining a Global dimension as children are beginning to access their accounts during visits abroad. One of the GridClubbers has used his safe GridClub email to contact his fellow GridClubbers during a family holiday to Pakistan. During his visit to relatives, Deepika told GridClub mediators how delighted he was at being able to keep in touch.
This really gives children's communication a sense of purpose and allows them to talk to other children safely where ever they are in the world, reporting what is happening to them first hand and helping them to keep in touch giving them a greater sense of community. Other GridClubbers have logged onto GridClub from holidays in Venice and Cyprus.
Both GridClub and SchoolNet Global support children's learning in all curriculum areas, and encourage children to communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas about their interests, their concerns, and their lives. These projects are helping our children to understand what are the ingredients to becoming a global citizen.
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SchoolNet Global live event
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Children in Canada and America who are participating in the SchoolNet Global Sustainability Project met for the first time by video conference with the help of new iChat A/V software. The children were able to talk directly to one another through a live video and audio link.
Dr. Merle Marsh, the ICT Co-ordinator from Worcester Preparatory School in Berlin Maryland USA said, "The children really loved the interaction. It's just what our students need."
The Sustainability Project is one of four SchoolNet Global Collaborative Projects being developed and co-ordinated by Dave Allan. The projects are designed to encourage and enable children to work directly with others around the world, taking them beyond the normal bounds of geography, culture and language. SchoolNet Global projects are beginning to cover many subject areas and as they develop will help to firmly embed ICT within the curriculum.
Dave Allan says, "SchoolNet Global is the ideal vehicle for children to participate in international collaborative learning projects. SchoolNet Global can help children to feel connected to the rest of the world and can add a tangible global dimension to every child's education."
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SchoolNet Global competition
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SchoolNet Global is a wonderful project to introduce an international dimension into a child's curriculum experience. Through SchoolNet Global two new projects have been launched, designed to build intercultural understanding and promote modern foreign languages.
The projects encourage students to undertake their own research and present their own views about the country they live in and their inherited culture. The contributions from SchoolNet Global students is developing into a rich resource of first-hand accounts and experiences that will help promote tolerance and empathy across the world.
Bi-lingual students, and those studying second languages are encouraged to write their investigations up in both languages, bringing a further dimension to their accounts and adding value to their pages as a resource for other students.
The first schools to work on My Country or My Culture pages had the chance to win a state of the art iMac.
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DfES Support for SchoolNet Global |
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The DfES is supporting the ongoing development of SchoolNet Global as a project that promotes Intercultural Understanding and Modern Foreign Languages learning. Intuitive Media are working with the DfES to promote new projects including My Country and My Culture, both of which encourage students to present their views, thoughts and feelings on the country where they live and their inherited cultures. Students are encouraged to communicate in both their native language and second language. In this way SchoolNet Global is supporting teachers in classrooms to implement the DfES National Languages Strategy and Citizenship Visit SchoolNet Global
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International Collaboration Online |
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Collaborative Projects
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Intuitive Media's passion is for communities of children to be connected around the world. Through working together children will understand each others' cultures - issues to aspirations. To fulfill this mission Intuitive Media provides international collaborative online projects. Education communities across the world are using take2theweb technology embedded within the SchoolNet Global website to work together online. Children from Canada, Norway, New Delhi, Britain and America are contributing to the debate on global issues including the conflict in the Middle East, and the inter-dependence of life on our planet.
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International Children's News on SchoolNet Global |
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Read the ICN News
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We are inviting SchoolNet Global children from across the globe to contribute to International Children's News, a NEW feature on SchoolNet Global, which will will go live in a few weeks. International Children's News is an online news channel for SchoolNet Global. We welcome news from children about subjects that interest them.
The International Children's News will help promote intercultural understanding and language learning. For some, getting their news stories through could be a real challenge. Like children from Ausros Gymnasium in Lithuania who are working against the odds to get their news online. They are using the nearest Internet Cafe to send and receive email. Their teacher, Ruta Kupriene writes, "We like the idea of ICN very much. We shall try to take part. We have already started selecting material for the Childhood Memories project, but the aerial on the roof of our school burned down, and the school is without Internet connection. Nobody knows when it will be repaired."
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New Friends from Europe and Beyond |
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Usha from Jakarta, Indonesia
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Following Intuitive Media's launch of SchoolNet Global Europe in Brussels in February, we have been absolutely delighted with the flood of new members from across Europe and beyond. In the last month new schools have joined the project from UK, Germany, Israel, Indonesia, Italy, France, Poland, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, New Zealand, Spain, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Denmark.
We warmly welcome all our new teachers and students who are keen to tell each other about their lives and communities. and we look forward to their contributions to the project.
Teachers! Add your school to our growing list of worldwide contributors, and see your childrens work on the web! Use this marvellous archive as a rich resource with your class. Click here to join us!
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Malsis School
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Congratulations to Malsis School who have won 1st prize in the 'Win an Apple iMac' competition! Malsis School was awarded the new Apple iMac for creating over 380 new pupil pages between 1 October 2002 and 28 February 2003. A brilliant achievement!
St Marys CE Primary School and Beaudesert Park School were also awarded prizes. Both schools received digital cameras and free subscriptions to Millennium Schools for creating the most engaging and interesting pages.
The contributions by children that participated in the competition were fantastic! Not only did they create an impressive number of pages of outstanding quality, they provide wonderful examples of what children have to offer. Please click on the school name below to see for yourself!
Malsis School
St. Mary's CE Primary School
Beaudesert Park School
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DfES Research on SchoolNet Global |
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The DfES is launching a research project to draw out the true value of SchoolNet Global for teaching and learning. The launch follows the DfES announcement of their support for SchoolNet Global, enabling children in the UK to continue to use this unique and valuable service.
Professor Stephen Heppell, Director of Ultralab and Alan November, Lecturer both made keynote speeches at the ENI show in Belfast and SETT in Glasgow, in which they highlighted the importance of participative online learning and the benefits it can bring to children. SchoolNet Global helps to promote global understanding and empathy by enabling children around the world to share stories about their lives, their families and communities.
Bob Hart, Director of Intuitive Media, said, "More and more teachers and learners are getting involved in online communities. SchoolNet Global is carefully mediated and is available free to every school in the UK and to increasing numbers of schools overseas. This makes it a wonderful learning tool for children everywhere."
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It used to be SchoolNet 2000, but now SchoolNet Global, the biggest children's education site in the world is opening its doors to children and teachers outside the UK.
We've had requests from many countries who want to join in the project, and now we have developed the site so that they can.
Over the coming months you will start to see children's pages from overseas appearing on the site. If you think your children could benefit, no matter where you are, contact us and we'll arrange a Pilot Project in your country.
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