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ESLInternet Educator of the Month Award.
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Gigglepotz.com is pleased to announce Nina M. Koptyug as the winner of the Internet Educator Award for February, 2002 Nina Koptyug is an EFL teacher, at School 130, Novosibirsk, Russia.. See his class web site |
TO BE DIFFERENT DOES NOT MEAN TO BE BAD: Understanding the World through a Project.
Visit her sites : http://www.sch130.nsc.ru/~eva/lol/
and http://www.edu.nsu.ru/local/
"This is my fifth year as coordinator of Internet projects for school 130. In the fall of 2001, I*EARN suggested that I become global facilitator for The Local History project. I have been part of it for three years, with Margaret Shearn, an Australian teacher, as facilitator. My students wrote several essays about the local history and exchanged e-mails with students from other countries." Margaret and her students created a site and published a booklet. Twice a month I lecture a new group of Siberian teachers at the local Information Technologies Center, telling them what a project is and how to take part in it.
Step 1. I suggested to the Education Board that instead of having a mixed group of teachers, they get together a group of forty Siberian EFL teachers to learn the usage of new technologies in a classroom. That was done in October 2001, and I spent two full days with my colleagues, doing an intensive course with them.
Step 2. I suggested that Web-designers at the IT Center help me create a new site which will be user-friendly, attractive, capacious. I put my ideas first on paper, than on a disk, and the Web-designers created what we wanted and needed. See our site.
Step 3. Siberian teachers started their work, sending essays and questions to me , some of them post the students essays direct on site now.
Step 4. Involving teachers and students from other countries. I received several e-mails from my international colleagues, some of them found The Local History in I*EARN, others found me through the Virtual School at EUN Groups within groups are now being formed. For example an Irish teacher, who already was working in close collaboration with a US teacher, asked me to help them both get connected to a 6th grade Siberian teacher. Now their e-mail exchange is in full swing, students and teachers exchange messages, pictures, Christmas cards - and stories.
Step 5, hopefully: raising enough money to publish a booklet and smail it to all the participants. With senior students, we embarked on a very serious project indeed. After September 11, I suppose all the teachers in the world had and still have to answer the same very difficult question Why? A German teacher suggested to me that I become part of a small team which includes himself and his class, a teacher from Wisconsin and her class, myself and my class of seniors, to discuss the following very difficult topic: LIKES, DISLIKES AND PREJUDICES AGAINST OTHER NATIONS.
Learning what my colleagues are doing and how they address many issues at hand helped me enormously with my project work: it is impossible to predict how any given project will develop.
Internet projects and teachers organizations like I*EARN, the European Schoolnet, and others help unite people. I know this is not enough to breed tolerance around the world, yet I believe that the children who take part in such activities will never grow up to demolish anything that is part of the Beauty of the World.
Nina M. Koptyug inspires and motivates her students with effective learning experiences. Congratulations to Nina - Internet Educator of the Month, February, 2002
Nominations for the Internet Educator Award are now being received for March 2002. Read how to apply.
Applications must be received by March 25th, 2002