Special note: We are posting GlobalEdNews early this week and will not be posting for the following two weeks. We will then be sending out announcements semi-regularly until the start of the school year, when we will be back on our regular weekly schedule! On a personal note, today is my last day here at Global TeachNet. I'll be moving from Washington later this summer to attend graduate school in the fall. I have enjoyed getting to know many of you, whether virtually or in person. Your work is inspiring, and it's been a privilege to provide this service to you! -Erin This week's postings: 1. Global TeachNet educators embark for Ghana! 2. Space still available at Global Studies Teacher Institutes - Minneapolis, MN 3. PROMISES Film Project 4. www.global-ed.org Erin Bair Coleman Global TeachNet Program Coordinator National Peace Corps Association mailto:teachnet@rpcv.org http://www.globalteachnet.org ------------------------------------------- 1. Global TeachNet educators embark for Ghana! As you read this, twenty members of Global TeachNet, both current and former educators, are traveling to Ghana. This trip is the first of an annual summer travel program designed by Friendship Force International specifically for Global TeachNet or National Peace Corps Association members who are educators. This 19-day trip includes school visits, cultural programs and homestays in Akosombo and Kumasi for four days each. Earlier trips through FFI involved NPCA members traveling to Iran and to Cuba (two trips each). Future trips for Global TeachNet members are in the plans and will be announced as they are finalized. To follow along with the travels of this group, most of whom are also taking an optional extension of the trip into Togo and Benin, go to http://www.rpcv.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=820. ------------------------------------------- 2. Space still available at Global Studies Teacher Institutes - Minneapolis, MN >From the Institute for Global Studies: Come spend a week or two at the University of Minnesota. There is still time to register this summer for professional development! The Institute for Global Studies and the European Studies Consortium, both Title VI National Resource Centers at the University of Minnesota, are offering teacher summer seminars on global and international topics. One and two week Institutes challenge teachers to combine experience in applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to international issues with the knowledge and materials needed to engage students. Each program focuses on learning content related to the seminar themes, exploring related curriculum materials, and learning new strategies and skills for incorporating global issues into curriculum. July 6-10 & 12-16, 2004: "Genocide and Human Rights" (4 credit course, almost full) July 6-9, 2004: "European Urban Models/American Urban Realities" July 12-16, 2004: "Work, Family, and Community: Global Perspectives in Examining Population History" Scholarships are available to teachers to help with tuition or registration for the institutes. In addition, most of the institutes have lodging scholarships for a single dorm room on campus, with air conditioning and shared bathrooms. CEU's included. Participants have the option to register for additional graduate credits. For more information, contact Sarah Herzog at 612-624-7346 or mailto:sherzog@umn.edu or register online at: http://igs.cla.umn.edu/outreach/si.htm. ------------------------------------------- 3. PROMISES Film Project PROMISES is a documentary film that explores the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lives of children. The film goes to communities in the West Bank and Jerusalem and follows the stories of Israeli and Palestinian children in each location as they reach out across the boundaries that normally divide them and meet their neighbors. The film, directed by Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, and Carlos Bolado, was shot between 1995 and 2000. For more information and to order or rent a copy of the film, go to http://www.promisesproject.org. ------------------------------------------- 4. http://www.global-ed.org The Global Education Network (http://www.global-ed.org), a recently developed portal site, is a web directory of global education links supported by the Canadian International Development Agency. Students, teachers, and others looking for activities and educational materials dealing with a specific topic of importance to global education can open a section of the directory from the five categories (alternative media, development, environment, human rights, and peace) and find a variety of organizations providing help in that area. _______________________________________________ Please note: The materials and information included in this listserv are provided as a service to you and do not necessarily reflect endorsement by Global TeachNet or the National Peace Corps Association. We encourage subscribers to pass the information along to colleagues and other interested parties. Please credit this listserv as the source and include subscription information. If you would like to submit an item to be included in an upcoming posting, please send it to mailto:gtnlist@rpcv.org. 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