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This term’s Global Messenger is based on the theme of Earth Hour (29/3/8) and Earth Day (22/4/8) . Did you know that an average person uses 57 acres of natural resources per year, but the Earth’s biological capacity is only 41 acres per person.

Multimedia Resources
All the videos below can also be saved as file downloads from communICTy videos.

Download Title
Earth Hour - Turn your lights off for 1 hour on 29/3/8
global warming ad1 - So what if the affects of global warming will be irreversable in 30 years
global warming ad2 - What is the biggest threat we face in the world today
Global Wombat, All is One - Everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years.

Going Green.ppt - A presentation on green statistics and how to do your bit to save the planet.
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Notre Dame Sites
Going Green - an elanguages project with links to resources, forums and a poster activity.
ND Sheffield Environmental Site - Live webcams and weather station data

Global Footprint Quiz
Footprint quiz global - You can select any country in the world
Footprint quiz USA - A younger child version, more USA based

Green Online Games
Energy Hogs
funergy
Science Museum Games

Other Useful Sites
10 facts about renewable energy
Do the green thing
GlobalDimension.org resources on energy, climate and waste
GreenPeace EfficienCity
Oxfam, Climate Change Resources
Science Museum Energy Site
Solar Power Facts

Global Dates
29/03/08 - Earth Hour. People and organisations around the world are going to switch off their lights at 8pm local time. A great activity for your students to try at home. Also see video
22/04/08 - Earth Day. Some good teaching resources and Earth Day TV

My Resources Update
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Going Green.ppt is a presentation I’ve made with some useful global statistics and ways for students to act for change. Good as an assembly and/or wall display.
My School Life is a set of lesson plans for students to make a presentation about their emotions in different school situations. It has a series of blog posts that students can contribute moderated comments to. So far children in the UK, USA, India and Serbia have taken part.

Oxfam Website Relaunched
The new Oxfam Education website is here! With a fresh new look and new search options, it’s now even easier to find what you need to take a global approach across the curriculum.
Oxfam Education offers a huge range of free teaching ideas, lesson plans and online resources, including all of your favourite Cool Planet resources - plus a funky new look for our children’s website. It’s the essential destination for Global Citizenship teaching!

School Partnership Toolkits
Oxfam’s Building Successful School Partnerships helps you build equal, effective partnerships that have real educational value.
New eTwinning Handbook a great way to learn how to get started in an eTwinning project and to find out about some of the top projects from the 2005-2006 school year.
Partners in Learning draws on the practise of schools around the world and Development Education Centres in the UK . With an emphasis on global citizenship, it answers the big questions and practical issues for any school considering or already involved in a sustainable learning partnership.

VSO Global Educators’ Register
VSO’s Global Educators Register has over 156 people trained to support teachers in embedding a global dimension in the curriculum. All Educators are VSO returned volunteers, have lived in a developing country for two years, received full training in Global Education activities, and have knowledge of a range of resources. This is a free resource, which can help a partnership develop or make the most of an existing one.

Teaching Resources
Save the Children’s Welcome to My World pack explores the lives of children from Peru, India, Ethiopia and Vietnam. Real life stories are told through four short films and are used as the basis for activities for Key Stage 2 geography and citizenship.

Events
04/12/07 -The East of England Development Education Network are holding a FREE one-day event in Cambridge for teachers, advisers, ITE tutors, NGO workers and all global educators. To get informed of and inspired by the global dimension work happening across the region and to get involved in the plans for the next five years! For more info email claire.bennett@harambeecentre.org.uk
12/11/07-British Council National Conference, Involvement for All will give you the opportunity to share best practice and investigate new ways to bring a global dimension to the classroom.

Global Dates
12/11/07 International Education Week
01/12/07 World Aids Day
27/01/08 World Holocaust Day
01/03/08 World Book Day
20/03/08 Earth Day
22/03/08 World Water Day

An effective way to bring an global dimension into your curriculum is by marking one of the international days such as World Water Day, Earth Day etc. Here are some resources and ideas you can use to celebrate the International Day of Peace on 21st September. Jeremy Gilley created an organisation called Peace One Day to encourage the United Nations to identify a specific date for an international day of peace. He created an inspirational video of his struggle to achieve this goal and why we need peace.

Peace One Day.wmv Low quality 7mb
Global Wombat - We only have one world and we need to get along together.

Have a peaceful day!
Tell your staff and students to make a special effort to treat each other with respect for one day and not raise their voices at each other. This may be more difficult for your staff than your students! You could also have a minute’s silence, or a time of reflection when you light a candle and or play some peaceful music.

Put up a display
You can show and/or print out these powerpoint presentations
conflict.ppt - statistics on conflict
Peace.ppt - Quotes about peace
View from Space.ppt Quotes from astronauts after viewing the Earth from Space

Create Posters using ICT
This is a lesson to teach students how to create a poster to raise awareness of the International Day of Peace.
PoD Poster Lesson

Blog your ideas for peace
We’ve created a blog post for students to contribute their comments about how we can bring peace to the world. The comments are moderated before going live on the web. It is important that students read the instructions carefully before submitting their comment. To view the blog post click here

Do a quiz
This quiz is on conflict statistics. You can either view it as an online quiz that marks itself, or a paper version

Visit the Peace Room
The Peace Room place where you can nominate a person who you think has made a positive difference to the world, read about the people who have been nominated, vote for nominations and read about the people who have “made a difference” to the world.

Create a Peace Gallery
Take photos of what your school does to mark the day. Ensure that you have permission to publish students’ images on the web. Then upload the images to the web using bubbleshare.com

Other free resources
Peace One Day Pack and DvD - Lesson plans, photos, quotations and a 32 min DvD explaining one man’s mission to achieve the impossible.
Making Sense of Conflict - 6 Downloadable lessons from Oxfam’s Cool Planet website.

Other Useful Links
Peace One Day - The official website for POD
Top Ten Conflict Resources - Resources from globaldimension.org
Tree of Life - A half ton sculpture of a tree made from dismantled guns and ammunition
Control Arms - An excellent website explaining the Arms Trade

This edition of Global Messenger coincides with two very important events, the G8 Summit and Father’s Day!

Contents
Communicty.org Update
British Council / Global Gateway Update
Global Dimension Update
Oxfam Cool Planet Update
Sustainable Schools Update
SSAT / iNet Update
Art for Life: Bridging the Digital Divide
Survival International
Global Dates

Communicty.org Update
Global Dimension in ICT - We recently did a project to create leaflets about the right to education and learning to learn. We used a blog to share ideas with some schools in the USA and used photos of school life from our link schools in Malawi. We finished the project with a flashmeeting video conference to Summit High in Cincinnati.
Personalising Data - We’ve created a number of ICT resources using real data instead of imaginary scenarios.

British Council / Global Gateway Update
Etwinning Toolkits - A useful list of teaching ideas for a variety of subjects. There is also a comprehensive list of reccomended etwinning web tools to enable students and teachers to communicate with each other.
Learning Together - A special free booklet on the European dimension.
Sports Zone - How sport brings countries together

Global Dimension Update
Hot Topic: Trade - A quick start guide to global trade with links to resources.
Case Studies - Find out how other schools have brought a global dimension into their curriculum
New Resouces - An update of all the new resources on Global Dimension.

Oxfam Cool Planet Update
G8 - A collection of resources on the key issues concerning the G8 meeting this year
Oxfam School Speakers - fully trained to help pupils aged 8 to 18 explore a range of
issues including poverty, health, education and the work of Oxfam.
Our Food, Our World - A free photopack of resources for 5 - 9 year olds
Oxfam Unwrapped - Lots of unusual gift ideas for Father’s Day!

Sustainable Schools Update
TeacherNet - An area of their website is now devoted to promoting sustainability in schools. Links to information, resources and events.
UNESCO - Guidelines on bringing sustainability into teacher training.

SSAT / iNet Update
iNet Primary Conference 3/7/7 - practical advice on developing or sustaining partnerships to enrich teaching and learning
iNet International Conference, Beijing, 18-20/9/7 - How educators can respond to the effects of globalisation?

Art for Life: Bridging the Digital Divide
ELearning 4 Africa has launched an Africa wide art competition for children between the age 5 - 11. Each child may submit a one page drawing or painting about the chosen topic. Topic: Life in my country. Closing Date: 31 July. For more information contact el4a@technowledgeable.com

Survival International
Survival International helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures. Their website has a digital storybook called There You Go to explain how tribes are being wiped out by development.

Global Dates
World Environment Day - 5.6.7
Father’s Day - 17.6.7
World Refugee Day - 20.6.7
World Population Day - 11.7.7
International Day of Peace , Notre Dame Peace Resources - 21.9.7

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This edition of Global Messenger coincides with QCA’s Secondary Curriculum Review. It is very exciting to note that the need to enhance teaching and learning with a global dimension has been put firmly on the agenda. Read below for lots of ideas on how to make the vision a reality.

Contents:
The right to a real education, leaflet project for KS3 ICT
QCA Secondary Curriculum Review, Global Dimension
Global Dimension Website Update
SSAT iNET, Student Online Conferences
British Council Etwinning, Quality Label and Awards
Send My Friend, Education Campaign
New Writing Partnership, Poetry Competition
Oxfam, New Catalogue
Plan-ed.org Website Review
Global Dates

www.communicty.org The right to a REAL education
I recently wrote an article about how to motivate students by enhancing the curriculum with a global dimension. It includes a KS3 ICT unit of work I’ve written to create leaflets about the right to education. There is also a blog that students can contribute comments to on learning to learn and digital image gallery of school life in the UK and Malawi.

www.qca.org.uk Secondary Curriculum Review
QCA have launched their review of the KS3-KS4 curriculum. Their goal is to “Develop a modern world-class curriculum that will inspire and challenge all learners and prepare them for the future”.
A key way to bring learning to life is by setting it within a global context.
View QCA’s ideas on adding a global dimension and cultural understanding and diversity.
To share your views on the review complete QCA’s online survey.

www.globaldimension.org.uk/
The 22nd March is World Water Day, so Global Dimension have put together a guide to water and recommended resources to help you get started in class. Teaching about the issues can help children to understand the importance of water, why people don’t have equal access to resources and what difficulties this presents. It also allows students to develop concern and understanding for the environment and make decisions on how their actions can influence these areas in the future.

The Global Dimension, along with seven other charities, have created a Global Village at the Education Show. Go and have a chat, check out resources and enter the prize-draw to win fair trade chocolate and teaching resources.

25 March marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade within the British colonies

www.ssat-inet.net Student Online Conferences
The conference on how can we protect our planet? has now been archived including resources, articles and forums. The next online conference is How can we bring peace to our planet? A number of useful resources have already been posted to the site. The forums will take place from 14-20 May. You and your students can register for FREE! Email papers and/or presentations to Debra at: brydon@cybertext.net.au

www.Britishcouncil.org Etwinning
A new feature to eTwinning is the Quality Label. This label is granted to teachers of excellent eTwinning projects. It indicates that the project has reached a certain national and European standard. Therefore, there are two labels: the National Quality Label and the European Quality Label. Apply by 4 May 2007.

The BC have also announced the launch of the second UK eTwinning Awards. The Awards recognise high quality eTwinning projects that haven taken place in the school year 2006-07. For inspiration you can read about last year’s winners.

To subscribe to the eTwinning Newsletter email etwinning-newsletter-en-request@listserv.eun.org with “subscribe” in the subject.

www.sendmyfriend.org/
There are 80 million children who miss out on school, because of poverty. Send My Friend invite your class to JOIN UP! and remind world leaders of these children. You can be part of the world’s longest chain by making a paper chain, and sending it to the German Leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, the most important leader in Europe in 2007.
You can also take part by adding your class to the online chain. By joining the chain you will be sending a message to world leaders, asking them to spend more on education. The site also has a wealth of resources including key facts, digital videos, lesson plans, photos and real life stories.

http://www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk/
A Young Poets Competition was launched on the 27th of February and will be running until the 27th of April. Poets between the ages of 11-25 are invited to submit poetry on the theme of refuge. An anthology will be produced and the winners will also be invited to read their work during Refugee Week (18-24th of June).
For conditions and entry forms please visit: www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk/cityofrefuge

www.Oxfam.org
Oxfam’s Catalogue for Schools 2007 is packed with more than 400 teaching
materials, offering all the resources you need to help develop your pupils’ global awareness and cultivate the skills needed to make positive changes within the world.T o request copies of the Oxfam Catalogue for Schools, teachers should contact Oxfam on 0870 333 2700 or email education@oxfam.org.uk. Browse and order securely online at www.oxfam.org.uk/publications

www.plan-ed.org
Plan International UK has launched a new Development Education website packed with FREE resources. Explore video clips, photos, opinions and ideas from young people across the globe. Download clearly targeted lesson plans and activity sheets to bring the world alive in your classroom. Read files on countries and the development issues facing them - find the most complex situations understandable. Find out about the Anti-slavery competition, launched on 6th March.

Global Dates
Earth Day 20.3.7
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - 21.3.7
World Water Day , My Water Resources - 22.3.7
Bicentenary of the Abolition of Slavery in the British Colonies - 25.3.7
World Environment Day - 5.6.7
World Refugee Day - 20.6.7
World Population Day - 11.7.7
International Day of Peace , My Peace Resources - 21.9.7

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Happy New Year!
This edition marks the first birthday of Global Messenger! It is now going out to over 400 practioners around the world. As the need to put a global dimension into the curriculum continues to gather pace, so is number of ideas and resources that are being developed. Thanks to everyone who has pointed me to the information below.

Book Aid
The 10th year of World Book Day will take place on Thursday 1st March 2007. Your school can help us provide reading materials to school and public libraries in countires where there are desperate shortages ob books. This year’s theme is “A Day in My Life”. Look out for the World Book Day schools pack and Book Aid International poster. www.bookaid.org/schools

Fair Trade Fortnight
New versions of the banana game have been created. http://www.bananalink.org.uk/ have created a new pdf version. I’ve also created a version using an Excel spreadsheet to show it as a series of budget models using formulae. For a comprehensive list of Fair Trade resources go to http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/default.aspx?id=166

World Water Day
I’ve been creating and collecting resources on water for the last two years. It seems to be a great theme to get students started on global issues.

Abolition of the Slave Trade
2007 marks the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Britain and the colonies – the first step to outlawing slavery altogether. http://www.understandingslavery.com/ and http://www.globaldimension.org.uk/default.aspx?id=303

Around the World series, Oxfam
Help children in the Early Years develop a global perspective with the
Around the World series: Hair, Bicycles, Homes, and Playtime. Each book includes stunning photographs from around the world, and a world map showing where the children come from.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/publications tel:01202 712933 email: oxfam@bebc.co.uk

Sustainable Schools
The Sustainable Schools Framework sets out the government’s vision of how schools can become beacons of sustainability for their community. The framework promotes sustainability not as an ‘added extra’ but as a core context and ethos for whole school improvement.
There is also a new self-evaluation tool for schools to use to assess their sustainable practices, based on and complementing the current school self-evaluation (SEF) format.
www.teachernet.gov.uk/sustainableschools

Greenscene
Greenscene is a twice yearly publication that goes to all Norfolk schools and Governing Bodies, to support these schools with sustainable development.
www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/envedu 01603 774023 joy.lambert@norfolk.gov.uk.

International Day of Peace Update
On 21 September there were reported Peace Day activities in 200 countries, directly involving 27.6 million people. Furthermore, POD were honoured to collaborate with leading humanitarian organisations to document the first ever life-saving activities specific to Peace Day in southern Sudan and The Democratic Republic of the Congo and immunisation campaigns in a further eight countries worldwide.
Now, more than ever, it is crucial that we come together to make an urgent, heartfelt and unified call for a peaceful and sustainable world.
For a list of planned activities and suggestions for ways in which you could mark the day visit my peace site or http://www.peaceoneday.org/ communICTy.org Update
communICTy is my weekly blog on exploring the real world through ICT. Recent posts include:
R U Global – Resources for a training day on global education to PGCE students
Assessment for learning in ICT - How to assess KS3 ICT
2020 vision of personalised learning – in response to the Gilbert Review
Online Surveys – how to create and analyse survey data Global Del.icio.us
To see all the global websites I find, view my global del.icio.us tags. To learn how to create your own del.icio.us to bookmark useful sites visit how to social bookmark. Global Dates
UNICEF day for change - 2.2.7
Fair Trade fortnight - 26.2.7
World Book Day - 1.3.7
International Women’s Day - 8.3.7
National Science Week - 9.3.7
Commonwealth Day - 12.3.7
Earth Day - 20.3.7
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - 21.3.7
World Water Day - 22.3.7
Bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the British Colonies - 25.3.7
World Environment Day - 5.6.7
World Refugee Day - 20.6.7
World Population Day - 11.7.7
International Day of Peace - 21.9.7

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