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The 21st September was the International Day of Peace, all around the world people recognized to continue working towards peace.
If you want to see what activities took place on that day, visit www.cultureofpeace.org , you can also sign the petition in support of youth exchange programs www.exchanges4peace.org
Did you do something special on the International Day of Peace?
Filed under: ESD tools
As promotors of open and free software I must bring to your attention the Star Office TM 8 office suite from Sun Microsytems Inc. It provides a full-featured, multi platform office productivity suite compatible with Microsoft Office.
A what?
A good alternative for expensive Microsoft Office products.
Google -who else? – incorporated the Star Office in a total package, including Google Earth, Firefox, Adobe Reader, Picassa and much more. It’s free, it’s safe, it is on http://pack.google.com/
If you want to know more details of the world’s largest Open Source Project, you can read the following link:
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Finally, governments all over the world are seriously considering open and free software!
Filed under: ESD learning materials
There are already some ESD initiatives in Vietnam, you can read more about it on http://www.unesco.org.vn/programmes/ESD/initiatives.asp
One of those initiatives is the Hanoi Environmental Education Project (HEEP). They are active since 2001 and have developed a lot of interesting materials, some of which are available online, and in English. They focus on integrating EE into the curricula of primary and lower secondairy education in Vietnam.
For example on water as a tool for science education and EE or on experiential education as a pedagogy for behavioral change.
Also available are papers, research and background information on the project. Check it out on http://www.heep.edu.vn/
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The purpose of the new blog is to establish a community of practice amongst teacher educators to infuse ESD. To wet your appetite and learn to understand how a good community of practice works you can contact Renato Opertti. He is the focal point of the succesful worldwide Community of Practice in Curriculum Development. Do you want to become a member? Email: r.opertii@unesco.org
Alan AtKisson, President and Founder of AtKisson Group, as well as the International Director of Earth Charter International, will be leading a 3-day Intensive workshop on the AtKisson Accelerator tools for doing sustainable development and CSR in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 26-28 Octorber. This is a rare opportunity to participate in a workshop facilitated by Alan and share his vast wealth of knowledge and experience on ESD. More info on www.atkisson.com
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Participants of the ESD Net Training workshop on ‘Reorienting Teacher Educators to Infuse ESD through ICT’ all received the email from Hye Rim with the link to all the materials of the August workshop. The workshop was co-organized by UNESCO Bangkok and Chulalongkom University. Now, all can see how hard we have worked on http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=6678. Check it out. There is a lot more usefull material on these webpages.
Tom Vandenbosch, VVOB project coordinator of Farmers for the Future in Kenya, sent me the following link http://www.weec2007.com/ You can download the papers presented at the 4th World Environment Education Congres that took place in July in Durban, South Africa.
All this information on ESD is available at a click of the mouse!
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Do you think this blog is a good start for our ESD Net or do we need something else? Please, fill in the questionnaire below. And if you have interesting proposals, articles, comments… let us know.
Also, check the new series of Chris Jordan whose pictures are a perfect visualisation tool for ESD. Do you wonder what two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes, actually stands for? The number of trees harvested? Chris Jordan looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminium cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. He hopes that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. His underlying desire is to affirm and sanctify the crucial role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
In other words, it’s about making the good things last longer… Check it out on http://chrisjordan.com/
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1. How do you suggest we start our ESD NET community of practice online? (Choose one option only)
- An userfriendly blog that activates the ESD NET online?
- An interactive website to discuss and share ideas, findings?
- A CMS software to share documents, presentations, pictures etc?
2. Would a newsletter be something we should start via the ESD NET, in addition to one of the options above?
- Yes
- No
3. At what frequency would you like to receive an ESD NET newsletter?
- 14 days
- 1 month
- 2 month
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