Dear Participant!
Warmly welcome to the blog and the preparatory exchanges before the workshop!
Preparations and introductions
We encourage you to introduce your-selves and your work by answering the three questions below:
1) What would you like us to know about you?
2) What has been your most memorable experience working with ICT and environment related questions?
3) What do you hope will emerge from the workshop in April?
You can answer these questions by composing and publishing a post here on this site - click 'new post' in the upper right of the blog. You can also use the 'comment' option below each post to respond to interesting topics raised by others. If you have any questions or comments pls contact the organiser at any time!
By sharing who we are and what we do in advance of the workshop we believe that the exchanges in Uppsala 7+8 April will be more fruitful. We look very much forward to the exchanges with you all on this blog and to meeting you in person in Uppsala! We encourage all of us to use the blog in an interactive way, and hope that the presentations may start various conversations, which may already before the workshop help us into a constructive dialogue.
Programme and more details
We will in few weeks time upload the programme for the workshop and the participants list!
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Uppsala City
Most welcome to the blog which will help us prepare for the Workshop on ICT and Environment 7+8 April in Uppsala, Sweden, funded by Sida via the Spider Center!
Uppsala City
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www.kidsrgreen.org
We live in the information age. The new media has revolutionized the way information is available and accessed. Increasingly, CD ROMs and the World Wide Web are becoming an important and indispensable reference resource for students and teachers.
One web resource designed and developed by CEE is www.kidsrgreen.org. KidsRgreen is an innovative and interactive environmental education outreach programme that harnesses new media to motivate, facilitate and support learning. It uses the strength of the World Wide Web to take children beyond classroom and textbooks and encourage independent learning. The programme currently consists of the website and some face-to-face interactions with students and teachers, to introduce and orient them to website.
The site uses the web as a medium to encourage and foster the spirit of enquiry through its in-depth lead feature, games that are entwined with environmental messages, hands-on activity ideas that can be carried out individually or in a cooperative situation. It also has an environmental calendar which gives ideas to observe days of environmental significance by giving the purpose of the day, theme if any, for the day, and related activity ideas.
The website is in the form of an interactive e-magazine that comes out with a fresh issue every month, inviting children to explore, investigate and discover different facets of the world we live in.
The topics for the 12 monthly issues focus on the themes announced for various environmentally significant days and on issues of current significance and importance. It includes relevant games and activities that harness the potential of interactivity that the web medium offers.
This exclusive online monthly environmental magazine has many interesting features.
Spaceship Earth is a regular feature in every issue. Each one talks about an interesting aspect of our planet earth. Key points supported by illustrations help to explore different environments, plant and animal life, and learn about systems that support the rich life on earth.
In the Green Games section, children can "logon" and play games that not just challenge skills and abilities but set one thinking, and at the end convey an environmental message.
The Let's Do It! section gives simple do-it-yourself activity ideas. Children can do them on their own, or with friends.
The Celebrate a Day section has a calendar of environmentally significant days, giving a brief history or background of why the day is observed including some ideas for activities that would help anyone to observe these days with in school or with family and friends.
The Krg Club is a forum where children can share poems, paintings and thoughts on the environment. It is a chance to let other children in the world know more about oneself and what one does to improve the environment
The Green Gifts section has attractive downloadable offers. How exciting to select designs for personalized stationery like letterheads, visiting cards, and bookmarks.
Teachers and schools also play an important role in introducing students to use such self learning resources, which provide the opportunity to enrich textbook earning and open up windows to a larger canvas of environment.
Teachers can effectively use such resources to complement and supplement the curriculum. However, there is an overload of information on the web. It is often difficult to look for information that is correct, relevant, current, and presented without any bias. Utmost care is required while introducing children to resources on the web. It is important for the teacher to choose and sieve relevant information on the web and use it effectively. Kidsrgreen offers information that is current, relevant and accurate without being pedantic or preachy.
The relevance and usefulness of such a website is reinforced in the light of the New Curriculum Framework and the national imperative to infuse environmental perspective to all syllabi, as well as the demand of activity and project ideas. The different features of the website provide information in a child friendly way, and also a variety of “do-it-yourself” ideas that support “hands-on” involvement and the “joy of learning”.
Kidsrgreen is a window to become part of a greener world. And it is just a click away!
Centre for Environment Education (CEE) is a national institution engaged in developing programmes and material to increase awareness about the environment and sustainable development. CEE was established in 1984 as a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Education, supported by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India. It is affiliated to the Nehru Foundation for Development.
CEE's primary objective is to improve public awareness and understanding of environmental issues with a view to promote the conservation and wise use of nature and natural resources. An important section of the society that CEE works towards achieving this objective is teachers and students. In order to facilitate this develops and disseminates reliable supplementary instructional and enrichment material. All materials, including those for teachers and children are developed through a rigorous process of research, review and comments by experts in the field, trials with students, teachers, and communities.
CEE works to awaken interest raise awareness and provide information and knowledge about environment in all its aspects and taking all towards action to improve the environment.
Pankaj Gorana
Children's Media Unit
Centre for Environment Education
Thaltej Tekra
Ahmedabad, India
Ph: ++91-79-26858002-9
Fax: ++91-79-26858010
kidsrgreen@ceeindia.org
www.kidsrgreen.org
www.ceeindia.org
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