Science Across the World: Using the Internet for Inter-school Communication 
Sunday, July 1, 2007 - Sunday, July 8, 2007
In conjunction with the Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO).
In this intensive course participants will become acquainted with the Science Across the World programme. They will acquire specific knowledge about Internet applications and resources relevant for interschool communication. The course will provide them with knowledge and skills that they can use in their classroom practice.
If you would like to be kept up to date about this course subject, please send us an email.
Applicant Profile
This course is intended for newly qualified and practicing teachers of various disciplines interested in the possibilities of teaching and learning in a European and global context by using the Internet for their classroom practice. The Science Across the World programme offers most materials for students aged 10-15, therefore, this course is best for teachers teaching or dealing with this age group.
A basic knowledge of computers is necessary: participants should at least be familiar with Windows platforms and word-processors. Before, during and after the course we will use an Electronic Learning Environment (Blackboard). Using this ELO doesn't need preceding knowledge or skills.
Application 
Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.
AMSU Course Name: COM-1.
Details
Date: Sunday, July 1, 2007 - Sunday, July 8, 2007
Application Deadline: Only a few places are still available. Applicants will be selected on a first-come-first-served basis.
Contact us to enquire about availability.
Capacity: 25 participants.
Language of Instruction: English.
Location: This course will be held in of the building of the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning (ILO); exact location to be specified shortly.
Computers: For this course, only the use of Windows computers is supported, there will be no facilities available for Mac users.
Fee: € 750,- (including course materials, welcome drink, access to the cultural evening programme on the AMSU, coffee/tea breaks on Monday to Friday).
Lunch & Course Dinner (Optional): participants will be able to purchases lunches (Monday to Friday) at the University Canteen. The cost of the for the Course Dinner on Thursday evening will be € 35,-. Participants will be free to choose independently where to have the other dinners during the course.
Initiators: The Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Coordination: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Registration: Confirmed participants are expected to register between 15.00 PM and 17.00 PM on Sunday, July 1, 2007 at the building Felix Meritis, located at Keizersgracht 324 in Amsterdam. Registration will be followed by a welcome drink.
Course Leaders
Lida Schoen (Netherlands) - Educational Consultant; Science Across the World.
Dr. Lida Schoen graduated as a chemist at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She worked as a teacher trainer and during the last 12 years as an educational consultant, mainly for international projects. She is a team member and trainer of the Science Across the World programme and titular member of the Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) Her main interest is communicating about science: public understanding.
Schoen was already involved in many Comenius 2.2 courses, gained experience in Comenius school partnerships and now chairs the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry (YAC) project in transient countries (already stops in Taiwan, Argentina, Siberia, Korea, and in the near future in South Africa and Mauritius), together with Keith Kelly.
Keith P. Kelly - Educational Consultant.
Keith Kelly is a freelance education consultant based in Bulgaria. He has an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and a PGCE in French, Russian and German from Bristol University. He then took a Masters degree in English Language Education at Manchester University. He is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer, a team member of Science Across the World, and an Associate Tutor for the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE). Keith is also a founder and coordinator of the Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching (FACT). From 1999-2003 Keith was coordinator of the English Across the Curriculum project for the British Council in Bulgaria where he worked in and
with bilingual schools around Bulgaria and the region. Keith, along with John Clegg, is co-author of the CLIL MA Module for NILE and Leeds Metropolitain
University. He has been working as a freelance education consultant since August 2003 on education projects mainly focusing on the teaching of content
through the medium of a foreign language.
Ton (Anton) G.M. Koet (Netherlands) - Teacher Trainer; Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Ton Koet is a teacher trainer at the Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is particularly interested in the teaching of pronunciation and in the application of speech technology in language teaching.
Related Link
http://www.scienceacross.org Science Across the World Website
Programme
In this course we will stress on (collaborative) learning instead of teaching. Apart from the programme outlined below, the course offers opportunities to learn how to start school partnerships with Comenius funding and to find partners among the course participants. We plan that after the course participants will be able to go on collaborating electronically.
Sunday, July 1, 2007
12.00 PM Arrival;
03.00 PM Registration;
05.00 PM welcome drinks and social and cultural programme.
Monday, July 2, 2007
10.00 AM Welcome and getting to know the teachers, participants and course location, Introduction to the Science Across the World programme;
11.00 AM Computer lab: the Science across the World web pages;
12.00 AM Exploring content and possible use;
01.00 PM Lunch;
02.00 PM Participants present themselves, their school/institute/organization and their country/region (PowerPoint presentation or web site) (I);
03.00 PM Practical implementation of Science Across the World in your school or teacher training college;
05.00 PM Summary of today's sessions;
06.00 PM Guided city walk.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
09.30 AM Key issues in communicating science through English as a second language;
11.00 AM Participants present themselves, their school/institute/organization and their country/region (PowerPoint presentation or web site) (II);
12.00 PM Studying Science Across the World topics (13 available) in more detail in groups, e.g. Plants in our lives (primary), What do you eat? (junior secondary); Climate change (senior secondary, web based);
01.00 PM Lunch;
02.00 PM Participants' presentations: good practices, country initiatives;
03.00 PM Using graphics to represent data;
05.00 PM Summary of today's sessions;
06.00 PM Social and cultural programme.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
09.30 AM Introduction: how to create Action 1 school partner-ships with Comenius funding?;
11.00 AM Group work: how to create Action 1 schoolpartner-ships: finding partners;
01.00 PM Lunch;
02.00 PM Practical work for science and language teachers around 'Chemistry in our lives';
04.00 PM Preparing group presentation about the practical work;
05.00 PM Preparing the international dinner;
06.00 PM Presentations of results with international food and drinks (taken in by participants) during the social and cultural programme.
Thursday, July 5, 2007
09.30 AM The Science across the World programme for improving literacy and language skills;
10.30 AM Workshop practical examples;
11.30 AM Exploring the web for useful materials and information;
01.00 PM Lunch;
02.00 PM Good practices: Comenius 1 school partnerships;
03.00 PM Group work: a Science across the World topic as a start for a Comenius school partnership: action plan;
06.00 PM Boat trip to land participants at Kantjil & de Tijger Indonesian restaurant and Course dinner.
Friday, July 6, 2007
09.30 AM (A) Action plan practical: preparatory visit, 3 years programme, bilateral visits;
09.30 AM (B) How can teacher trainers, inspectors and advisors go on? Discussion around different training programmes;
12.00 AM (A) International groups present their action plans;
12.00 AM (B) Teacher trainers, inspectors and advisors present training programmes for (student) teachers;
01.00 PM Lunch;
02.00 PM Seminar wrap-up and evaluation;
04.00 PM Closing ceremony.
Saturday, July 7, 2007
10.00 AM Visit to NEMO museum - how to use a science activity centre in your projects?;
12.00 PM Social & cultural programme.
Sunday, July 8, 2007
12.00 PM Departure.
