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TEACHERS AND SCHOOL LEADERS: Please pass this invitation on to your students, teachers and education colleagues who you think may be interested. Thank you! 15 November 2006: Invitation to students in all countries iNet - International Networking for Educational Transformation - is the international arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, in the United Kingdom. For further information on iNet, see: http://www.sst-inet.net/default.aspx iNet invites primary and secondary students in all countries to participate in a set of four one-week online conferences on the theme: ‘What does it mean to be a global citizen?’ Each student online conference will run for seven days, 24 hours a day, from 12.01am Monday to 12 midnight the following Sunday (UK time). Students (and teachers who intend to forward access details on to a large number of participating students but not participate themselves) may register online for the set of four conferences, for no cost, at: http://www.cybertext.net.au/studentreg2.htm Four one-week conferences for students only WEEK 1. Global citizens. Are you a global citizen? 11 December to 17 December 2006 *The deadline for submitting papers and presentations for this first one-week conference has now passed. However, students may still register, to read the papers and presentations, and to actively engage in fully supervised online discussions on global citizenship – at school or, individually, at home. WEEK 2. Global equality. We are the first generation who can eradicate poverty. How can we make this happen? 5 February – 11 February 2007 * Deadline for papers / presentations: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Wednesday 20 December 2006 WEEK 3. Global resources. How can we protect our planet? 12 March – 18 March 2007 * Deadline for papers / presentations: Monday 29 January 2007 WEEK 4. Global peace. How can we bring peace to our planet? 14 May – 20 May 2007 * Deadline for papers / presentations: Monday 2 April 2007 Note: adults are not able to participate in the student online conferences. Teachers who register do so only to pass on the conference website address, once it is emailed them, to large numbers of participating students. This saves teachers having to register a large number of names. * Students are also welcome to register themselves, individually. How can students participate? Students are invited to participate in many different ways. 1. Write an essay-style paper, short story or diary that may be published on the online conference website 2. As a group, class or individual, they can prepare a presentation on one of the conference topics and mount it on their school’s website 3. Create a video, film, drawings or audio files (see technical specifications below) and send for possible publication on the online conference website. 4. Write a poem or produce a mindmap 5. Volunteer as one of seven Daily Online Discussion Hosts, whose role is to encourage online discussion by other participants (please let the Online Conference Manager know as soon as possible if you wish to express interest in this role: brydon@cybertext.net.au) 6. Volunteer to be part of a small Student Evaluation Panel that selects the most interesting paper/presentation each day and writes a very short report explaining the decision (please let the Online Conference Manager know as soon as possible if you wish to express interest in this role: brydon@cybertext.net.au). 7. Volunteer to host one of two ‘hot seats’, where they will answer questions on a related topic from all online conference participants during a four-hour session (please let the Online Conference Manager know as soon as possible if you wish to express interest in this role: brydon@cybertext.net.au). 8. Participate by reading the other students’ papers and website presentations and then engaging in the daily online discussions. 9. Provide a list of useful links to websites that provide more information and ideas about the online conference topic. All of these activities can be undertaken by individual students in their own time, by teams of students or groups of friends, or offered by teachers as supervised classroom-based activities. More information on Topic 2 Global equality: We are the first generation who can eradicate poverty. How can we make this happen? If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be:

• 61 Asians
• 13 Africans
• 12 Europeans
• 8 people from South America, central America (including Mexico), and the Caribbean
• 1 person from Oceania
• 70 would be non-white
• 30 would be white.

Seventy-five villagers have access to a source of safe drinking water. Twenty-five do not, and have to spend a large part of the day just getting safe water. There is enough food for everyone in the global village, but the food is not divided equally. Only 30 people always have enough to eat. Twenty are severely malnourished. Seventy-six people in the Global Village have electricity. 24 do not. Twenty people have 80% of the Global Village’s wealth. The other 80 villagers have to share the remaining 20%. Half of the villagers survive on less than $US2 a day. One-quarter of the villagers learn less than $US1 and are in extreme poverty. Data sourced from 'If the World were a Village' - 2003 and Oxfam If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world. How does this make you feel? You might also like to consider this statement: ‘Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of him/(her)self and his/(her) family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services... Everyone has the right to education.’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights Further questions you might like to consider: (See the 6 billion voices video UN Millennium Campaign)

• Should the world’s wealth be more fairly distributed throughout the world?

• Would your life change for the better if the world’s wealth was more fairly distributed?

• How would life change for the global population if there was no more poverty?

• What message would you give to the leaders of the G8 (the world’s 8 richest nations) about the rich / poor divide?

• How can we make poverty history?

• ‘Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.’ Nelson Mandela. How might we learn from this?

Information on Topics 3 and 4 * More information on Topics 3 and 4 will be provided as soon as it becomes available. How to submit an essay-style paper for possible publication Essay-style papers, poems and stories from 500 to 1,500 words are invited from primary and secondary students in all countries. These should be emailed directly to the Online Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, at: brydon@cybertext.net.au by the due dates for the various conferences (above). Papers should be provided either as plain email text messages or as attached Word documents (not html). PowerPoint presentations cannot be accepted. Papers should not include any formatting, such as columns or boxes. Text can include italics and / or bold but should not use capitalisation, coloured text or underlining for extra emphasis. The titles of papers should be kept reasonably short and should seek to provide readers with a clear indication of the paper’s content. References, where necessary, may be included at the end. Please do not use footnotes. Papers / presentations must not include identifiable references to individual teachers or other students or any information that would provide the writer’s personal contact details (other than the student’s first name, age, school and country). Student photos Students who submit papers are invited to email a passport style ‘head and shoulders’ colour photo of themselves for publication with their paper / presentation. All accompanying graphics or photos must be attached separately as jpeg files and not embedded in the text file. Audio files Students with access to appropriate MP3 technology are invited to liaise with CyberText with a view to sending suitable MP3 files for possible mounting on the online conference website. The following guidelines apply:

• Mono
• 32kbps
• Sample rate 22.05kHz
• MPEG-2
• Layer 3 (MP3)

Please contact Online Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, if you require any further technical advice, at: brydon@cybertext.net.au *Audio files should be submitted no later than three weeks before each conference commences. Video files Students with access to appropriate video technology are invited to liaise with CyberText with a view to sending suitable video files for possible mounting on the online conference website. The following guidelines apply:

• Videos should be encoded so they can be viewed over a dial-up modem.
• Due to differences in platforms, eg Mac and PC, some videos produced in one format may not be viewable on other platforms without the installation of additional software.
• The preferred Windows format is WMV and the preferred Mac format is QuickTime MPG4.

Please contact Online Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, if you require any further technical advice, at: brydon@cybertext.net.au *Video files should be submitted no later than three weeks before each conference commences. Student photos Students who submit papers / presentations are encouraged to email a ‘passport style’ ‘head and shoulders’ colour photo of themselves for publication with their paper / presentation. All photos must be attached separately as jpeg files and not embedded in the text. Where more than one student has authored the paper / presentation, please arrange for a group photo showing students’ heads and shoulders only. Photos should be emailed at the same time as the paper / presentation is emailed, and the jpeg file name should include the submitting student’s name, so it can be accurately identified. Student drawings and mindmaps Student artwork can be also sent with the essay / paper, so long as it is sent separately as a high resolution jpeg file (not embedded in the text). Essay-style papers must not include identifiable references to individual teachers or other students or any information that would provide the writer’s personal contact details (other than the name of the student’s school and the country it is located in). School website presentations There is plenty of scope for creativity here. Your presentation on your school website must address one of the topics and must be ready for checking 2 weeks before the commencement of each conference. The section of the school website where your presentation is located must also be maintained for the entire duration of the online conference (and preferably for a little longer). All you need to do is to forward us an explanatory paragraph, including the exact website address where your presentation is located – and we will publish the link as part of the online conference. Remember that no students’ surnames or contact details may be included in the website presentation. *School website presentations should be submitted for checking two weeks before the conference commences (email link and explanatory paragraph, listing the names of those who worked on it). Security and polite protocols For security / privacy reasons, students’ full names will not be published anywhere on the online conference website. On the online discussions, students will be required to identify themselves only by their first name, their school and their country, e.g., Mary, Scots College, United Kingdom. Although ‘head and shoulders’ photos are permitted, students’ email addresses or other personal contact details will not be published, under any circumstances, anywhere on the website. All of the online conferences in this series will be monitored 24 hours a day throughout the entire online conference period. All submitted online comments are reviewed by an adult before publication online, and inappropriate, impolite or off-topic comments will not be published. Students may participate from school or individually from home – but they will be fully supervised at our end, at all times. Any further questions? For further information on any aspect of the student online conferences, please email Online Conference Manager, Ms Debra Brydon, at: brydon@cybertext.net.au