Events

Monday, February 13, 2012 (6)

Feb 13, 2012
October 9, 2010
Saturday

  • Food and Culture - a Global, Collaborative Classrooms Project

  • Oct 9, 2010 to Dec 31, 2013
  • Location: Online and in your classrooms
  • Description: Let your students learn with the world, not just about the world!The purpose of this project is the development of a global, collaborative classrooms project which will provide a context for students to:* Develop knowledge, skills and habits conducive to excellent health* Practice habits of responsible citizenship - locally to globally* Develop Global Competencies by studying "with" the world instead of "about" the world* Develop critical 21st Century Skills* Become engaged in a rigorous, relevant and real-world project* Engage the knowledge within the disciplines through research, problem solving and application* Learn - as opposed to memorizing then forgetting discrete factsThe initial sources of inspiration for this project were the book, Hungry Planet - What the World Eats, which is both a beautiful and profound essay on the people of our planet and the food they eat; the Edible Schoolyard Project where students grow and cook their own food, as many of the content standards are tau
  • Created by: Anne Shaw
March 5, 2011
Saturday

  • Global Media Literacy Network

  • Mar 5, 2011 to Mar 1, 2016
  • Location: Global, Online & Belgrade
  • Description:

    MEDIA LITERACY NETWORK IS ONE NEW DIGITAL MOVEMENT WILL DEVELOP ONLINE PLATFORM FOR THE MULTILEVEL CROSS SECTORS INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION IN MEDIA LITERACY

     

    • The main goal of the Platform will be the collection, promotion and dissemination of the mew methodologies, projects and audio visual tools in new and traditional media.
    • Everybody working in media literacy is welcome to become a member of the Platform without membership fee if accepted to promote the Platform and give to the Platform one or more creative projects application.
    • The Platform will offer to the members wide online visibility, events, workshops and seminars and large list of potential partners for international cooperation and projects.
    • The Platform will offer to every member online space and editorial rights for providing information, audio visual promotion of multimedia productions and call for participation through easy and user friendly online software.
    • Open a Media Literacy Market to trade expertise and profit from th
  • Created by: Miomir Rajcevic
September 30, 2011
Friday

  • The International Class

  • Sep 30, 2011 at 6:00pm to Jun 18, 2012 at 7:00pm
  • Location: East Side Institute
  • Description:

    "The activity based-theory, the performative approach, and the emphasis in community building are the key elements of a psychology that blurs the distinctions between clinic, politics and the arts."

    --Murilo Moscheta, psychologist and therapist, Brazil
     
    IMMERSE YOURSELF IN THIS PSYCHOLOGY
     
    APPLY NOW FOR 2011-2012
     
    The International Class
    of the East Side Institute for Group 
    and Short Term Psychotherapy

    A Global Learning Community

     

    Since 2004, more than 60 community and university based practitioners from across the US and 16 other countries have enrolled in The International Class of the East Side Institute.
     
    Among them are psychologists from India, Brazil and Denmark; applied theatre practitioners from Kenya and Canada; educators, scientists and doctors from Pakistan, Serbia and the United States; community organizers from Uganda and Taiwan; psychotherapists from South Africa and Argentina; and youth workers from Nicaragua and Mexico.
     
    Coming from different places and professions, they share

  • Created by: Melissa Meyer
February 6, 2012
Monday

  • Planning a Global Collaborative Project for your Classroom Online Course

  • Feb 6, 2012 at 6:00pm to Mar 4, 2012 at 7:00pm
  • Location: Online
  • Description:

    This four week course will show teachers how to plan and implement an online collaborative project with their students in the upcoming school year. This asynschronous online course begins with an overview of project-based learning, then facilitators will help you select and plan a lesson's for an iEARN project that fits your curriculum needs.

    For more information or to register click here 

  • Created by: Diane Midness
February 11, 2012
Saturday

  • INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR on Teacher Education for Peace and Harmony

  • Feb 11, 2012 to Feb 13, 2012
  • Location: Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti,
  • Description:

     

    Teacher Education for Peace and Harmony

    The world has recently seen a nuclear disaster during the Tsunami in Japan, political Tsunamis in Middle East and Africa; and continuing racial & ethnic conflicts in Sri Lanka, east Asia and middle-east; terrorist and fundamentalist attacks in India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. and closer home the Maoist Violence. All this is largely an expression of intolerance, manifestations of racial and ethnic hatred, the perpetuation of violence for ulterior motives and the discrimination, inequality and growing disparities between the rich and the poor. If civilizations aren't tuned to the reality of human existence, they conserve the worst of human behavior and free themselves from any responsibility of creating a positive, peaceful co-existence amongst the diversity of beings. Eventually, they become corrupt and self-destructing. The events cited as examples above are not wholes unto themselves but comprised of individual units of human beings, the

  • Created by: Surendra Pathak
February 13, 2012
Monday

  • The 2nd International Exhibition and Forum for Education (IEFE 2012)

  • Feb 13, 2012 to Feb 17, 2012
  • Location: Saudi Arabia
  • Description:

    After the success we have achieved at the International Exhibition and Forum for Public Education (IEFPE 2011) with our sponsors, china Railway 15 Bureau Group Corporation, Education Experts, Tatweer, Kako, HP, Obeikan Education, Saudi Ceramics, and Management Experts Academy, the Saudi Ministry of Education is conducting the international Exhibition and Forum for Education (IEFE 2012) in its second edition at Riyadh International Exhibition and Convention Center on the 13th - 17th of FEB, 2012 , the Forum and expo is planned to be a specialized event gathering Education professionals from all over the world.

    IEFE expo is expected to have over 250 exhibitors from the expo 8 sectors which are (Making of curriculum, Educational Equipment, Educational and School Building, Training and leadership development, Overall quality and academic certification, Kindergarten, Talents, and Students with special needs), Over 14.000sqm area and hosting south Korea; one of the best developed countries

  • Created by: Mohamed Omar