iEARN 2017 - Conferece Diary - Day 1 in pics & links

iEARN - International Education and Resources Network is the largest organization that connects students through collaborative, educommunicative projects in the world www.iearn.org, even though, it is not as largely known as it should be. It was thanks to my former teacher Dr. Celani's e-mail that I got in touch with one of iEARN projects, Adobe Youth Voices 7 years ago. Since then, I did not stop participating.

OPENING CEREMONY
We were welcomed by a Marrocan music show and welcoming notes from the organizing committee. www.iearn2017.ma 

Poster Exhibition 

After the opening ceremony and plenary we moved to the poster exhibition hall where not only posters were available but, a lot of project material. 

Workshops in the afternoon

Teachers were free to choose which workshop to join according to their interests and my choice was Technology for a cause - Enhancing Skills Empowering Kids with Sheeba Ajmal from Pakistan. Many language teachers showed up.

I also attended Possibilities for intercultural change, presented by Cheng-Chun-Chen from Taiwan. Our schools are communicating by Teddy Bear project.  We hosted Happy Bear and they are hosting our Dilma Pinheiro, she was named Dilma after our elected president and Pinheiro after our school name, see also http://rosegimenes.blogspot.com/2015/10/dilma-pinheiro-is-in-taiwan.html

Cultural Night

At night we had a great cultural party with all countries showing a little of their culture, our option was to talk about carimbó dance. 

Time to get ready for day 2 and hip hop presentation.

Packing. Important things first

Magali, Eddie and Happy Bear are ready for the conference, too

Here we are on the go again! This time we are packing to Morocco for the 23rd Annual iEARN Conference. iEARN is responsible to help more than 140 countries, 30,000 schools, 40,000 teachers and 2 million students to interact, share their culture and learn a lot from one another and I absolutely love to be part of this. 

Teachers Rose Rocha and Rose Gimenes from Vila Matilde to the world

I found iEARN years ago in my search to promote significant learning experience for my students. I joined an online course to Adobe Youth Voices project and never stopped. Besides to implement AYV at school I also invited other teachers to join. It was the same with Teddy Bear. iEARN is represented in Brasil by NGO Educadores Globais which I also recommend to all educators who would like to join an international platform of collaborative projects www.educadoresglobais.org and www.iearn.org . The conference site provides all information about the event and will be daily updated http://www.iearn2017.ma. 

 

Carlos Lima, our teddies Magali, Eddie and Happy Bear and Sérgio Most, the photographer

This time our delegation will present Teddy Bear Project 2015-2016 experience with teachers Rose Gimenes, Domênico Petta and students from EMEF Pres. João Pinheiro, Hip Hop on the Spot which was created by teacher Rose MC from DRE Penha and Youth Press Program created by teacher Carlos Lima from SME who is also responsible to implement it in all schools of the city.

Teachers Rose Rocha, Carlos Lima and Rose Gimenes

All participants in the conference will be invited to join the Youth Press. Keep checking this blog for news.