2EDUCATE, August 2001

• A project where students from the elementary schools in Paramaribo (about 1700 students) got the opportunity to get acquainted with the basic principals of the computer and use iEARN projects as a tool for a educative use of the internet and computer programs.
• This project enabled teachers to support NV SITT in training 1700 pupils the basic skills to operate the computer.
  
  

Training : Introduction to iEARN for the 2 educate project (teacher training), august 2001

• A two day training’s workshop for teachers from the elementary schools who were willing to work as volunteers during the execution of the 2educate project.
• In cooperation with the local computer firm NV. Sitt a training program has been executed during the summer holidays where 35 elementary school teachers were trained in project based learning programs.

Tap’ Sey Mit’ Foto Sey, September 2001

• A four days exchange program with students from Brokopondo(Tap’Sey) in the interior and from Paramaribo(Foto Sey) took place on the Tonka island which is located in the middle of the van Blommenstein-lake, a water storage reservoir for the hydro- power dam at Afobaka.
• The discussions were about the ecological footprints left behind since the construction of the dam  and with that the come into being of the van Blommenstein –lake 40 years ago..
• Their introduction to iEARN and getting acquainted with the iEARN Network.
  
  

Projecten van 1998 – 2002:
In deze periode zijn de activiteiten vooral gericht op het introduceren van nationale en internationale iEARN projecten b uiten het formele schoolprogramma om (niet formeel)


CaKi – Campagne voor Kinderen(dec. 1998)
De kersverse student-leden van iEARN Suriname particip[eren in fondswervings activiteiten voor het kopen van kerstcadeaus’s voor weeskinderen.


KVCO - Kids Video Collaboration Online (1999/2000)
Videoproject: Kids Video Collaboration Online. Schoolsonline - Amerikaanse NGO. Deelnemende landen: Suriname, Mexico, Uganda, Latvia, Macedonia, India, Zuid Afrika. Door middel van e-mail en video werd gediscussieerd over de volgende milieuaspecten: - natuurbehoud, natuurvervuiling, omgaan met vervuiling. Het resultaat: een 12 minuten durende videopresetantie gemaakt door de studenten zelf. Opmerking: Deze video wordt thans door vele lidlanden gebruikt bij  evenementen om iEARN te introduceren.


Learning Circle - Math in our Lives (1999)
Een project waarbij gekeken wordt naar de toepassing van wiskunde in het dagelijks leven.