eLEARNING AWARDS CEREMONY AT “EUN ROUND TABLE 2006” IN BRUGES
The eLearning Awards ceremony took place at European Schoolnet’s event “Round Table: Imagining the future of schooling” on 7 December 2006 in Bruges.

More than €25,000 euros in cash prizes were awarded to 8 winners. Describing the prizes, the Presenter Anne Gilleran, from the EUN office said: “The aim is to reward the best examples of use of ICT by schools in Europe and give them visibility”.

‘Living in Europe: on highlands and lowlands’ from Scuola Primaria ‘Ada Negri’ in Lodi Vecchio, Italy won the top category, the Young Digital Planet’s Award for ‘the best use of ICT’.

Other prizes included the INTEL award for Mathematics; the Promethean Award for ‘Whole Class Teaching’; the Oracle Award for Science; the Michael Award for Culture, and the Vanerum Special Awards.
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LIFE PROJECT PRESENTS A ROADMAP TO INTEROPERABILITY
On 7 December, about 50 participants convened to discuss the issues of adoption of learning technologies and the arising issues that touch upon the underlying interoperability aspects, both the technological and semantic ones, as well as the political will to tackle them.

The event was organized by the LIFE-project, an e-learning project focusing on interoperability in conjunction with European Schoolnet's "Round Table: Imagining the future of Schooling" in Bruges, Belgium .
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EUN ROUND TABLE 2006 BLOG
During the recent EUN Round Table 2006, European Schoolnet used a blog to explore ways of adding value to the conference. The EUN Round Table 2006 blog has continued to be used after the conference and it is where can be found presentations, as well as interviews with participants and speakers, photographs, reports of the sessions and survey results.

We encourage Round Table participants as well as those who could not be with us in Bruges to take a look, use this blog to post reflections and comments as we hope the dialogue started during the two day event will carry on in 2007 .
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EUROPEAN SCHOOLNET TO COORDINATE NEW PEER LEARNING PROJECT
In December 2006, European Schoolnet was awarded the contract to run P2V, a peer learning project funded by the European Commission DG Education and Culture under the Transversal Actions of the EU eLearning Programme.

P2V (Peer to Peer networking for Valorisation) is a development from the P2P project which took place in 2004-2006. The project will run until 2008 and aims to apply the peer learning methodologies developed in the P2P project.
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ICT CLUSTER WORK COMPLETED
EUN has completed its work for the ICT cluster of the European Commission with a major deliverable: The ICT Impact Report.

The report is a review of 17 recent studies of ICT impact on schools in Europe. It addresses the question of what have been the concrete results or impact of ICT investment and integration in schools in two major areas: learning outcomes and teaching and learning processes.

It aims to distil and analyse the key findings from the studies and make recommendations to policy makers and practitioners.
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INSAFE DISCUSSES THE MEETING POINT OF INTERNET SAFETY AND EDUCATION IN BRUGES
Media literacy was one of the main issues on the table at the Insafe network meeting on 7-8 December 2006. This was the first training meeting of the new Insafe plus project. It took place in connection with the EUN 2006 Round Table “Imagining the future of schooling” in Bruges.
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EUN HELPS CHILDREN TO STAY SAFE ON THE INTERNET
On 8 December European Schoolnet's Insafe team launched a new tool for children to evaluate their online behaviour and receive appropriate safety advice based on their choices. The data gathered from this tool will be compiled into a report on children's internet habits. The tool is being supported by pan-European cable operator UPC.
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EUN MAKES MILLIKAN OIL DROP EXPERIMENT AVAILABLE TO SCHOOLS
Xplora was awarded a grant from the Agilent foundation to develop in cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern, the Millikan oil drop experiment, which can be used to measure the charge of an electron.

The ‘web’ experiment is now available from the Xplora portal, it will enable physics teachers and students to easily and remotely run the experiment and to insert their results into a database.
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NEARLY 350 SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED FOR ETWINNING PRIZES 2007
Between 15 October and 15 December 2006, teachers from across Europe had the opportunity to apply for the eTwinning Prizes 2007.

With submissions now closed, the eTwinning team is happy to announce that nearly 350 submissions were received and it is anticipated that there will be many very interesting projects in line for the top prizes.
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