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Richard Jones-Nerzic

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  1. Art teachers might find this seminar interesting: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index...topic=2698&st=0 It examines the variety of ways history teachers use art to help teach their subject.
  2. I have your budget details and Alf sent me a CDRom last week. I am going to wait on the Madrid meeting this week and the outcome from that before I start chasing for further details from people.
  3. Do I really need to contact the French National Agency? I thought the whole process was centralised through Brussels now? One application form in English (4 copies) post dated on or before March 1st? (St David's Day ) My plan was to complete all the necessary documentation during my February half-term having spent the coming weeks chasing people up for details. I am working to a (successful) model of an application that was made last year that my school is participating in. I am missing something?
  4. I think we had too many last year but we do certainly need more than one. I think six topics will be about right. With one topic thread it is difficult to control (chair) the direction of the discussion when too many threads are added at once. Because students are replying to each other we can end up with three or more threads in one and it can become quite confusing. Also when a student logs on, it is important that they can contribute to more than one topic at that time. With six topics they can make six contributions without having to reply to themselves.
  5. Thanks for the feedback, some good ideas, keep them coming. Pauline - PM is Private Message just like I'm about to send you If I disable this and email, it will prevent students from communicating privately with each other and (more importantly) with anyone else who happens to be on the internet. Also the students will be registered by me with a special email address so that no private details will accessible to anyone. As for the registration of students, we can wait until early March to worry about that. I like the idea of an Australian school being involved for the reasons you suggest and also because the asynchonous nature of this means that neither of us need participate at ridiculous times of the day. Kerry/Ulrike - for this activity I'd like to keep it to 13-15 years (y9-10) for students who are English first language but perhaps allow older second language students. For older students there will be the opportunity starting in February for an international online debate http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...st=30entry908 If anyone is interested in participating it is important that you register your details on the Spring Europe site http://futurum2004.eun.org/ww/en/pub/futurum2004/index.cfm With 9 weeks to go there are already 1864 registered schools. The site also has useful information, posters etc. in easy to download format.
  6. http://vs.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/Virtual%...cfm?id_area=993 "a starting page for teaching Greek as a foreign language and to exchange experiences and good practice. "
  7. http://vs.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/index_vs.cfm The Virtual School is “made for European teachers by European teachers”, and is a virtual meeting place for teachers to discuss and exchange material and experience. It is a learning resource, featuring online events, activities, selected sites and online course modules. Use the Virtual School to add a European flavour to school life! The Virtual School is open to ideas, and encourages cooperation and contributions from the educational community all over Europe. The Virtual School is part of the European Schoolnet, and encourages collaboration between schools in Europe. We support the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in schools, to make cooperation between schools in Europe easier. At the Virtual School, you can find the pan-European content and contacts you need to get involved in international education activities and projects. The Virtual School does not compete with national websites or resource centres, but instead aims to complement them. There are 20 subject-related departments with an editorial staff of more than 100 teachers, heads, teacher-trainers and researchers from 17 countries all over Europe. These editors, together with visitors to the website, form an active and lively learning community.
  8. I also had been waiting for an 'official' announcement (or at least a general statement of agreement ) that everyone is happy for the IST to be the coordinating institution. I guess this is now the case? I think the forum is useful for discussion about issues that need a coordinated approach, otherwise we should use a 'reply all' email.
  9. Comenius is is a European action programme to encourage schools to collaborate across borders. Comenius projects can improve professional skills, knowledge of culture and languages, and innovation in teaching. Comenius Space is a site for teachers and trainers active in Comenius projects and for those that would like to join. On the website you can find services, people, experts, and advisors that can help set up an international project. Comenius Space is available in English, French and German. http://comenius.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/index_comenius.cfm
  10. I would like to run the debate for the whole week, perhaps beginning on Monday 22 March and running it through to Sunday 28th. It is very much a 'virtual', asychronous debate and the more time we give to it the better. This year I am going to avoid giving any class time to the debate, working instead with students who volunteer and can be expected to participate in their free time. I am going to open it only to my junior students (13-15 years old). I think it will work much better with a few committed students from each participating school but have 6 or so schools participating. Teachers will be expected to help moderate and 'direct' discussion. I think slightly less topics this year but along similar lines: Single European Currency European School Curriculum Immigration United Nations Security Council - should there be an 'EU' member? Combined Defence Policy - should Europe have one? The Widening Of The European Union Integration of Eastern Europe Nationality - what do you understand? Languages - what should you learn? United States Of Europe - what do you want? Additions? thoughts? I will pre-register the students. They will have different access rights and permissions. For example they will not be allowed to PM, email or start new topics. All I will need is the full name of the student and the name of the school.
  11. Don't start. What about the 'Netherlands' and 'Everywhere else'? There are a maximum of 10 options.
  12. This is poll, you can only vote once. Last time I did this I upset a lot of people's geographical sensibilities. Please list your grievances below.
  13. For lots of reasons I have found http://www.bullyonline.org very useful recently. I notice that it also has a school bullying section that maybe of some use.
  14. I have used John's online simulations on many occasions. My best documented example is the Child Labour debate that he outlines above. Traditionally, I have had students produce their speeches to digital video camera which they then edit for webstreaming http://www.intst.net/humanities/y9/term1/i...ebate/index.htm In addition this year we created an online discussion forum to allow the students to take on the role of the characters they had researched about. Three schools were involved, each in a different country. John 'chaired' the debate and the kids had a great time. You can follow the debate at http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/studentforu...hp?showforum=10
  15. Our 'sister' forum at SchoolHistory (can I say that?) is running a third term of online seminars starting this week. Not all the details are complete but the current list includes a few familiar names: 7th January - Stephen Drew - History and Art 21st January - Andy Walker - Teacher training 18th February - Dave Wallbanks - Local History 3rd March - John D Clare - Differentiation 17th March - Daniel Letouzey - Teaching history in France 31st March - Alison Denton - Teaching the Industrial Revolution 14th April - Richard Jones-Nerzic - Using the student forum for collaborative projects For further details and for access to some outstanding seminars in previous terms see: http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/index...t=0entry24216
  16. Thanks for link Christine, I'm sure many of us will find this useful. On the subscription to topics, look out for this icon usually on the bottom left of the screen: Click on it and it allows you to receive email notification, download 'print friendly' versions and other useful things. This really is brilliant software.
  17. My students will be pleased. I'm quite happy with the topics so far suggested. When I ran a similar debate last year for the Spring Day in Europe, the question of Nationality was the most popular subject. We might get some ideas for future debates from last year's debate topics As I have said elsewhere on this forum, I'd like to do something similar this March. Perhaps this might be the opportunity for our younger (European) students to get involved in an online debate. I am intending to work with 13-14 year olds.
  18. Thanks for the link Paul and welcome to the forum. I was particularly interested in your section on the Civil War photographer Mathew Brady. A few years ago a student of mine wrote assignment that suggested many of Brady's famous battlefield photographs were to a large extent 'staged' for the camera, including those of the 'corpses from Antietam'. My student might have challanged your conclusion that 'His war scenes demonstrated that photographs could be more than posed portraits, and his efforts represent the first instance of the comprehensive photo-documentation of a war.' Unfortunately, I can remember little of my student's work now and I no longer have a copy. Do you think there is any truth in his thesis?
  19. If you restrict me to two, I have the agreed participation of a Russian student and a Zimbabwean. If we are still looking for other nationalities I have many others (including Americans) who are very keen to participate. As a topic I quite like 'globablisation' as most of my students are direct victims/beneficiaries of it.
  20. The IST Humanities website is designed to support student learning in (largely) History and Geography at the International School of Toulouse. http://www.intst.net/humanities With our students working in a hightech, laptop environment, part of our intention has been to document the outcomes of this continuing educational experiment. As a result, a significant proportion of the content (websites, PowerPoints, digital video etc.) is produced by the students themselves. Hopefully this might be of interest to anyone who wonders what might happen if we were to consign scribal skills to the dustbin of history.
  21. As will already be clear from a number of posts here and in the DT section, the International School of Toulouse has a strong interest in this project. Toulouse is the European capital of aviation and since 1974, the home of Airbus. The school is a 'wholly owned subsidiary' of the company. For the IST this a longterm, cross-curricular project, initially timetabled around the development and launch of the new Airbus A380 At first the IST History, Geography and French departments will be formally involved, with other departments joining us later. My role is to help co-ordinate this and also to organise the first 'Aviation Project' meeting on behalf of the European Virtual School D&T department in Toulouse from 18-21 March, 2004.
  22. Count me in on this. International School of Toulouse, 11-18. Perhaps we might eventually have junior and senior debates? Initially I suppose we want GCSE/IB level students, 14-18? Are we thinking of creating a different forum for this? I would have some reservations about students registered on a forum for 'Teachers and Educators'.
  23. For Spring Europe 2003 I organised a online student debate about European issues using an Invision forum. http://www.intst.net/humanities/informatio...urope/index.htm I'd be interested in doing something similar this year if anyone is interested. You can read an account of our experiences last year on the European Virtual School site: http://www.en.eun.org/eun.org2/eun/en/vs-h...ang=en&ov=30229
  24. I am Head of Humanities at the International School of Toulouse. When the school opened in 1999 it was the first fully laptop school in Europe. The Humanities website attempts to convey/document some of the consequences of this pedagogic experiment. I am a member of the European Virtual School History Department but I have also taught geography, sociology, politics and philosophy. I am a member of the Association of Teachers' Websites and an administrator of this forum.
  25. This is a fascinating study carried out by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany and available as a 130+ page download from the Council of Europe website at http://www.coe.int/T/E/Cultural_Co-operati...t.asp#TopOfPage Using a cross-section of secondary school history textbooks, it informs on the general developments in the presentation of history over the last decades, and provides an overview of how certain aspects of European history are dealt with. Some of the topics discussed are taken from the darker side of Europe's past, such as occupation policy, the Holocaust, genocide and war. Others deal with textbook market structures, the space allotted to regional, national, European and world history, and the importance of textbook layouts and tasks assigned to pupils - whether they develop key skills of critical investigation or encourage pupils to digest pre-structured knowledge.
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