Every Monday we will post a newsletter on the homepage.
An overview of previous newsletters:
NEWSLETTER Monday February 06 (week 1):
Dear students and teachers,
A warm welcome to all of you!
Starting today, you are all part of a large global class; A large circle of students learning from and with each other, in your own classroom and online with students from other schools.
In this Learning Circle we will focus on: how you can be yourself (ME) and be meaningful to others too (WE).
We will start with 3 weeks to introduce yourself and your class or group.
Each group has ONE school page to post all contributions for the introduction, the challenges and to receive feedback; find it by clicking on your school name at the bottom of the pages.
The introduction phase is explained on this page. Please also check out the links in the sidebar for all pages.
By carefully reading the assignments you’ll get familiar with the project. The reflective questions will be helpful to make a good start.
By telling your own stories and see the experiences of other students in this Circle, you will share much more than just knowledge.
In our Learning Circle you will find out about global ways to be meaningful for someone else.
We are all looking forward to your introductions.
Good luck and have Circle-fun together!
On behalf of the LC team,
Manon van Herwijnen
NEWSLETTER Monday February 13 (week 2):
Dear students and teachers,
Today we are starting the second week of the introduction.
Each group has ONE school page to post all contributions for the introduction, the challenges and to receive feedback; find it by clicking on your school name at the bottom of the pages. The introduction phase is explained on this page. Please also check out the links in the sidebar for all other useful pages.
By carefully reading the assignments you’ll get familiar with the project. The reflective questions will be helpful to make a good start.
By telling your own stories and see the experiences of other students in this Circle, you will share much more than just knowledge.
In our Learning Circle you will find out about global ways to be meaningful for someone else.
We are very curious to see your contributions for the first assignment. Hopefully you will enjoy to 'See yourself through the eyes of another'!!
Good luck and have Circle-fun together!
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Monday February 20 (week 3):
Dear students and teachers,
Today we are starting the third week of the introduction.
Each group has ONE school page to post all contributions for the introduction, the challenges and to receive feedback; find it by clicking on your school name at the bottom of the pages. The introduction phase is explained on this page. Please also check out the links in the sidebar for all other useful pages.
By carefully reading the assignments you’ll get familiar with the project. The reflective questions will be helpful to make a good start.
By telling your own stories and see the experiences of other students in this Circle, you will share much more than just knowledge.
In our Learning Circle you will find out about global ways to be meaningful for someone else.
Parents and others like to follow your stories and ideas in the Learning Circle. You can invite them to take a look by sending them the link of your wiki.
You can connect with the other students in your Circle by giving feedback and comments and also meet students from other groups by making a Skype appointment. A good way to have conversations about your ways of life!
We are very curious to see your introductions.
Good luck and have Circle-fun together!
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Monday February 27 (week 4):
Good morning everyone,
This Monday we are starting the last week of the introduction phase.
We ask all participants to add a nice contribution on their schoolpage this week. Each group has ONE school page to post all contributions for the introduction, the challenges and to receive feedback; find it by clicking on your school name at the bottom of the pages.
You can find the assignments for the introduction phase on this page. Check out the links in the sidebar for other useful pages: the ‘Resources’ page, the ‘Background information’, and the ‘Reflective questions’ (pdf) for the introduction etc.
Please try to connect with the other students in your Circle, by giving feedback and comments and also meet students from other groups by making a Skype appointment. A good way to have conversations about your ways of life!
We are very curious to see your introductions.
Good luck and have Circle-fun together!
Manon van Herwijnen
N.B.:
Request: Please resize all those nice pictures (to 50-100Kb) before you upload them in the wiki.
Five pictures uploaded directly from your camera will make the wiki page too heavy (10-20MB).
In countries with a dial-up connection it takes minutes before your page is visible.
Furthermore, downloading files (Word or PowerPoint) isn’t possible in many schools, for security reasons (virus etc.)
It’s best to post photo’s and stories IN the wiki page, so everyone can see them immediately.
Presentations like Prezi or Glogster can easily be embedded in the page, with the embed code.
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NEWSLETTER Monday March 6 (week 5):
Dear students and teachers,
This week we will start Challenge 1! Did you take a good look at the school pages of the other groups? Most students started their introductions and will add more creative information to get to know each other better! Even if it's a bit later, it is still possible to add your 'images of the other' or to present your personal role model to us. Curious what you'll find out about all the other students!
Until April 2 each group has four weeks to work on Challenge 1. You can start conversations in your classroom using the reflective questions (see sidebar) and decide together how to make your own choices in the assignments.
Time to consult and discuss in your own group, but also to connect with the other students in your Circle; A great way to connect is to add feedback on the school pages of every class. That's what makes working in a learning circle special and exciting!
You can meet students and teachers from other groups by making a Skype appointment. It's a great opportunity to have conversations about your ways of life and about your plans to do something meaningful for someone else! The best way to organize a time and date for a meeting is by sending an email to the teacher of the class or group you want to meet.
Are you ready for this challenge? Excited to see what ideas come up in your group!
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NEWSLETTER Monday March 13 (week 6):
Dear students and teachers,
Snow in Canada, almost spring in parts of Europe, always summer in Nepal and Suriname...
A lot of sun or rainy days, what matters for a child is to focus on 'taking care of yourself and one another'.
How can you share ways to turn ME into WE, and still be very much yourself? This Circle is all about learning more about this, with and from each other.
It’s important to keep the others posted: What assignments have you chosen in this first challenge and how will you tackle them? The learning process is as valuable as the results! The reflective questions for this challenge (see sidebar) can help to make a good start. You can find interesting websites on the page with resources.
Good to hear that some Skype appointments have been made to talk to each other directly, and to get to know each other better!
It’s nice to read comments and feedback from other classes or groups on your school page. That’s the way to find out what other students learn from all your ideas and contributions. Please take your time to carefully look at the pages and give feedback as much as you can, directly on the school pages.
Have a good week,
Thanks and good luck!
Manon van Herwijnen
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N.B.:
Request: Please resize all those nice pictures (to 50-100Kb) before you upload them in the wiki.
Five pictures uploaded directly from your camera will make the wiki page too heavy (10-20MB).
In countries with a dial-up connection it takes minutes before your page is visible.
Furthermore, downloading files (Word or PowerPoint) isn’t possible in many schools, for security reasons (virus etc.)
It’s best to post photo’s and stories IN the wiki page, so everyone can see them immediately.
Presentations like Prezi or Glogster can easily be embedded in the page, with the embed code.
NEWSLETTER Monday March 20 (week 7):
(and for all Dutch schools: ---> extra newsletter about Mohamed Sidibay's visit to The Netherlands)
Dear students and teachers,
In this first challenge of the Learning Circle we focus on 'taking care of yourself and one another'. How can you share ways to turn ME into WE, and still be very much yourself?
Some schools started to share their contributions. They are keeping us posted about the assignments they choose in this first challenge.
As we have noted: the learning process is as valuable as the results!
The reflective questions for this challenge (see sidebar) can help you to make a start or to keep track. You can find interesting websites on the page with resources.
Good to hear that some Skype appointments have been made to talk to each other directly, and to get to know each other better!
It’s nice to read comments and feedback from other classes or groups on your school page. That’s the way to find out what other students learn from all your ideas and contributions. Please take your time to carefully look at the pages and give feedback as much as you can, directly on the school pages.
Have a good week,
Thanks and good luck!
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Monday March 27 (week 8):
(and for all Dutch schools: ---> extra newsletter about Mohamed Sidibay's visit to The Netherlands)
Dear students and teachers,
Dear participants,
We are in the final week of the first challenge.
In the past weeks many groups in all Circles worked to make a good contribution. Students show what they find out and share their own experiences and creative ideas on children’s rights.
We expect the other schools to add their contributions for this challenge this week.
By giving a brief update on your groups’ progress in this wiki every week, you can keep track of the other schools. If there’s a delay, please report this to the other participants on your school page. Take a good look at the work of your Circle mates and give feedback on it.
Comments and feedback are an important part of this project; it’s the way to connect and it’s always fun and exciting to read what others think of your work!
We hope you can bring a lot of spring-energy in the hearts and minds of other people around you.
Good luck!
On behalf of the LC team,
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Tuesday April 18 (week 11):
Hello everyone,
Many schools in the Netherlands will enjoy two weeks of spring break, starting next week. Some schools in other countries are celebrating holidays too. We hope that you can keep track as much as possible, and add your contributions for challenge 1 and 2 asap, to create rich learning together.
We are pleased to see that more and more schools are doing their best to give meaningful feedback, appreciated by everyone and essential to connect in the Learning Circles! How nice that some classes enjoy meeting in Skype, which their teachers organized for them. Sometimes we can find a report with pictures of these Skype meetings on the school pages.
Please continue these efforts; it’s really fun to meet and very interesting to share more opinions!
---> In advance, we ask your special attention for the individual assignment for students of the Circles 3 - 7, starting on May 8:
All students of these Circles will have the opportunity to write a letter to the jury of the Global Teenager Project, using peerScholar.
This is an innovative on-line pedagogical tool that supports students’ collaboration, learning and reflection.
All teachers will receive an email on May 4th, with user names and passwords for their students and their own logins for peerScholar.com. During the 3 weeks of peer-learning, all teachers can track the progress of their students and read the written letters and feedback.
Students will use the given login name and password and can start writing their letter at school or at home.
Previous experiences show that it's very interesting and exciting for students to give and receive feedback and connect to 3 unknown students from the Learning Circles; whose letters will you assess, and which students from which country is reading yours? What a great opportunity to be able to share your thoughts with fellow students from different countries!
Something to look forward to...
Enjoy your holidays and thanks for your cooperation!
Manon
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NEWSLETTER Monday April 24 (week 12):
Hello everyone,
Many schools in the Netherlands are enjoying two weeks of spring break. Some schools in other countries are celebrating holidays too. We hope that you can keep track as much as possible, and add your contributions for challenge 1 and 2 asap, to create rich learning together.
We are pleased to see that more and more schools are doing their best to give meaningful feedback, appreciated by everyone and essential to connect in the Learning Circles! How nice that some classes enjoy meeting in Skype, which their teachers organized for them. Sometimes we can find a report with pictures of these Skype meetings on the school pages.
Please continue these efforts; it’s really fun to meet and very interesting to share more opinions!
---> In advance, we ask your special attention for the individual assignment for students of the Circles 3 - 7, starting on May 8:
All students of these Circles will have the opportunity to write a letter to the jury of the Global Teenager Project, using peerScholar.
This is an innovative on-line pedagogical tool that supports students’ collaboration, learning and reflection.
All teachers will receive an email on May 4th, with user names and passwords for their students and their own logins for peerScholar.com. During the 3 weeks of peer-learning, all teachers can track the progress of their students and read the written letters and feedback.
Students will use the given login name and password and can start writing their letter at school or at home.
Previous experiences show that it's very interesting and exciting for students to give and receive feedback and connect to 3 unknown students from the Learning Circles; whose letters will you assess, and which students from which country is reading yours? What a great opportunity to be able to share your thoughts with fellow students from different countries!
Something to look forward to...
Enjoy your holidays and thanks for your cooperation!
Manon
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NEWSLETTER Monday May 1 (week 13):
Hello everyone,
Many schools in the Netherlands are enjoying two weeks of spring break. Some schools in other countries are celebrating holidays too. We hope that you can keep track as much as possible, and add your contributions for challenge 1 and 2 asap, to create rich learning together.
We are pleased to see that more and more schools are doing their best to give meaningful feedback, appreciated by everyone and essential to connect in the Learning Circles! How nice that some classes enjoy meeting in Skype, which their teachers organized for them. Sometimes we can find a report with pictures of these Skype meetings on the school pages.
Please continue these efforts; it’s really fun to meet and very interesting to share more opinions!
---> In advance, we ask your special attention for the individual assignment for students of the Circles 3 - 7, starting on May 8:
All students of these Circles will have the opportunity to write a letter to the jury of the Global Teenager Project, using peerScholar.
This is an innovative on-line pedagogical tool that supports students’ collaboration, learning and reflection.
All teachers will receive an email on May 4th, with user names and passwords for their students and their own logins for peerScholar.com. During the 3 weeks of peer-learning, all teachers can track the progress of their students and read the written letters and feedback.
Students will use the given login name and password and can start writing their letter at school or at home.
Previous experiences show that it's very interesting and exciting for students to give and receive feedback and connect to 3 unknown students from the Learning Circles; whose letters will you assess, and which students from which country is reading yours? What a great opportunity to be able to share your thoughts with fellow students from different countries!
Something to look forward to...
Enjoy your holidays and thanks for your cooperation!
Manon
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NEWSLETTER Monday May 8 (week 14):
Hello everyone,
'Officially' all the challenges are closed now, but some groups are still working on their activities and will share them with the other participants in this ME / WE project. Your contributions and reports are very welcome!
---> From today we will work on the final request for your group
and start our individual PeerScholar assignment:
All students will have the opportunity to write a letter to the jury of the Global Teenager Project, using peerScholar.
This is an innovative on-line pedagogical tool that supports students’ collaboration, learning and reflection.
Based on learning experiences in the past months, students are invited to write a letter in peerScholar individually and give and receive feedback from 3 students from another school in this circle. How exciting to see how 'peers' from another school or country carefully read your letter and give comments!
In the first phase (May 8 - May 19) students can write their letter.
In the second phase (May 20 - May 26) students will give feedback on the letters of three other students in the circle.
In the third phase (May 27 - June 02) of this amazing process of peer learning, students can see the constructive feedback from three of their classmates in the Learning Circle, reflect on their own letter and improve it.
--> Teachers received logins for all students and themselves.
Students use the given username and password and can start writing their letter from May 8 to May 19, at school or at home.
Today we will also start the 'Completion & Evaluation' for your group, with a final request to share your 'eyeopeners' in this project.
Some great opportunities to share our learning!
Feel free to email me in case of any questions,
Good luck!
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Monday May 15 (week 15):
Hello everyone,
'Officially' all the challenges are closed now, but some groups are still working on their contributions and will share them with the other participants in this Children's Rights project. Your creations and reports are very welcome!
---> On May 8 we started the individual peerScholar assignment for all students.
---> Teachers received logins for their students and themselves. Students use their unique username and password to log in.
Information about this personal challenge can be found in the newsletters, emails to teachers, and on the instruction page peerScholar - individual.
At the bottom of this page is explained how student progress can be followed by the teachers.
We noticed that not many students have started to write their letter to the jury of GTP (create phase). Students are invited to write or upload their letter in peerScholar this week, before May 20.
The assess phase, giving feedback to 3 other participants, will run from May 20 to May 26.
It’s really exciting to see how students in other schools and countries are answering your words in the reflect phase from May 27 to June 02!
The more students finish this assignment, the better this can be an amazing process of peer learning: students can read constructive feedback from three of their classmates in the Learning Circle, reflect on their own letter and improve it.
Feel free to email me in case of any questions,
Good luck!
Manon van Herwijnen
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NEWSLETTER Monday May 22 (week 16):
Hello everyone,
On May 8 we started the final phase, theindividual peerScholar assignment for all students.
Almost 200 students have written a letter to the jury of GTP.
---> Phase 2 (the assess phase) started but it's still possible to write or post your letter in peerScholar, as 'late submission' is allowed.
Please pay attention: When students submit their letter later, they can only be connected to 3 peers that haven't started phase 2 yet.
--> Only this week it is possible to give feedback to 3 other participants. Only those who have finished phase 1 are able to give feedback from May 20 to May 28.
It will be really exciting to be able to read all the feedback in phase 3 from May 29 to June 2!
--> The more students finish this assignment, the more this can be an amazing process of peer learning.
--> Some groups are still working on the challenges and will share their contributions in this Wiki.
Your creations and reports are very welcome!
Have a nice week and good luck,
Manon
NB:
Information about peerScholar: in the newsletters, emails to teachers, on the instruction page peerScholar - individual.
At the bottom of this page: explanation how student progress can be followed by the teachers.
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NEWSLETTER Monday May 29 (week 17):
Hello everyone,
We are starting the last week of the Learning Circles!
Time to complete the challenges, to read the feedback of your peers in the final phase of the peerScholar assignment, and evaluate the Circle process:
The challenges:
Some groups are still working on the challenges and will share their contributions in this Wiki.
Your creations and reports are very welcome!
The completion in peerScholar:
The third peerScholar phase ends this Friday (evening) 27; students will reflect on the feedback received and revise their letter to the jury of the Global Teenager project in peerScholar.
--> If you didn't join the individual assignment to complete the Learning Circle: Please write this letter with your entire group and post it on your school page.
Use the title "Why bother?", address it to the jury of GTP and include:
The jury will share the best 3 letters with UNICEF, publish them in all wikis and spread them among many students and teachers participating in various projects of GTP!
Evaluation:
Please add your feedback on your school page: What went really well and what could we improve?
We are very curious to hear your tips and tops; this will help us to prepare the Circles in the future.
Looking forward to your final efforts in this Circle process,
with greetings from the Learning Circle Team,
Manon
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