I*EARN INTERNATIONAL
TEACHERS MEETING 1995
ONE WORLD CONFERENCE
Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Sir Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Whalesong Foundation, I*EARN Australia and the Department of Education, Victoria are proud to announce the site of the 1995 I*EARN International Teachers Meeting as Melbourne, Australia.The conference will build on the highly successful inaugural teachers meeting in Puerto Madryn, Argentina in July of 1994.
The conference will represent the collective talents of I*EARN teachers and students from across the globe. Educators will meet in Melbourne to further the work of the I*EARN Network and to use the face to face meeting to build greater personal links with international colleagues.
I*EARN facilitates projects designed to empower young people (P- 12) to work together in different parts of the world through a global telecommunications network (I*EARN).
I*EARN now includes school communities in approximately 28 countries: the US, former USSR, China, Costa Rica, Israel, Australia, Belgium, South Korea, Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, England, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland,South Africa, Indonesia, Hungary, Brazil, Kenya and Spain. In addition, we are negotiating with organizations in Nicaragua, Egypt, Cuba Singapore and Zimbabwe.
The conference will also be open to educators from outside the I*EARN Network.
Discussions and demonstrations of the latest developments in educational practice utilising telecommunications and associated technology will be the key focus of the workshop sessions.
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