 Take a Closer Look at Global Connections!
Dear , We're very excited as many of you have already expressed
interest in participating in our new Global Connections program. This week,
we're pleased to announce that you can now preview a sample week of Global
Connections and see firsthand all that it has to offer! Click here to take a look at the kinds of articles, facts, and quizzes that are available
through a subscription to Global Connections, which is free as a part of this
project! All of the content is designed to facilitate cultural awareness and
engage students in contemplating the issues of globalization.
To sign up or for more information about Global Connections, please contact NPCA at teachnet@peacecorpsconnect.org.
Peace,
Anne Baker
Vice President
National Peace Corps Association
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CSIET's Annual Global Classroom Awards
Posted by request:
The Council on Standards for
International Educational Travel is proud to present the 3rd Annual Global
Classroom Awards. The purpose of these awards is to recognize
schools that actively support international youth exchange by promoting
school-wide feelings of inclusiveness and global curiosity while hosting international
exchange students or encouraging their students to travel and study
abroad.
Please nominate a school that
creates a unique climate of support for exchange students by making global
issues a focus of the entire school. Nominations must include a one-page
typed essay of why the nominated school should be selected,
including specific examples of the school's commitment to multiculturalism and
international exchange.
The winning schools will each
receive a $500 scholarship for one of its students to study abroad or to
be put towards increasing school-wide international awareness. For further
details and an application form, click here. The deadline for applications is Friday, October 30th,
2009.
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American Students Needed as Pen Pals for Chinese College Students
As part of their Oral English Class, students at Anhui University
in Hefei China are being matched up with
American students to be pen pals. Students will communicate through a web site
forum and can learn about each other's cultures through this experience. The
Chinese students are Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior English majors. Students
will be required to write correspondence weekly throughout the semester. Jen
Spolnik, former outreach coordinator at University
of Colorado and The Ohio State
University, is coordinating this effort while she teaches English in China.
If interested please send your students names (first and last names) to hifromjenny@yahoo.com. High school and college
students will be given first priority. The first teachers to reply with their
lists will be given priority until the 400 slots are filled.
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Oxfam ACT FAST
Posted by request:
Over one billion women, men and children now suffer from
chronic hunger. Around the world, poverty is growing fast. The trend can
seem unstoppable, and what can one person really do? You can join the
growing movement to beat poverty by taking the new ACT FAST with Oxfam
pledge. The ACT FAST pledge is different from anything you've seen
before. With your pledge, you're not just taking one action - you'll be
joining a movement of people in the fight against poverty with three easy
steps, each building on the power of numbers. Each person who takes the pledge
brings us closer to our goal of beating poverty. Go to www.OxfamAmerica.org/ACTFAST to
take the pledge today.
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"Peace is Breaking Out" Competition - Design the new logo of peace
Posted by request from Vision of Humanity:
What images
come to your mind when you think of peace? Is it a dove, an olive branch, or
the CND logo? Each of these peace symbols are more than 50 years old.
The peace
logo needs to be re-invented to reflect today. We need a peace logo that is
fresh, relevant, global - and we want YOU to design it.
What is
your idea? Upload your design and if your logo wins, we will fly you and a friend to the USA to attend the Global Symposium of Peaceful
Nations in Washington DC November, 2009 to sit with the movers and
shakers of world peace.
The
competition will close on Sunday 04 October 2009.
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