Marssha is back from Vilnius, Luthania with an elearning award for international global colllaboration.

Dear Friends,
It was an amazing experience travelling to Vilnius,Lithuania and winning the international award for international global collaboration outside of Europe from the EUN European Schoolnet. I was so honored and touched. Will begin working on documenting it on the site as soon as I can calm down a bit from all of the excitement. It was truly a huge honor and I am absolutely thrilled. Our winning project was our globaldreamers peace project.
You can read about it here and see the first pics from the ceremony. The peace project as it appears on the elearning site.
http://elearningawards.eun.org/apps/eun_apps/learningawards/2009/gallery/entry.cfm?lang=en&sid=32100
Special and warm thanks to all our participating schools and friends.
I will send the links from Globaldreamers once I get it documented.
And finally our next project will of course be our winter holidays and the season of light for everyone. Please send us your holiday contributions.
Thanking you all warmly and wishing you all the best.
Fondly.
Marsha Goren
Dream coordinator
http://www.globaldreamers.org

http://elearningawards.eun.org/ww/en/pub/elearningawards

e-learning award winner for Peace Project

Dear Friends and Globaldreamers,
I am delighted to inform all of you that I am one of the ten award winners in the elearning competition this year and will be going to Vilnius, Luthania on Wednesday for the award ceremony and workshop.
The Globaldreamers peace project was chosen and I do not yet know which category and will inform you all upon my return next week.
I wish to warmly thank all of our Globaldreamers from around the world for being part of such a beautiful project.
You have all made Globaldreamers what it is and has become, thanking you all.
Sincerely,
Marsha Goren
http://www.globaldreamers.org

News from Globaldreamers

http://www.globaldreamers.org/09fall/index.html
Dear Friends,
Please join us in our fall project and it is coming along just great. We
love hearing from all of you and are very happy about the way Globaldreamers
is continuing to do so well.
For those who sent to the dreams that you dare to do project check it out
and many thanks.
http://www.globaldreamers.org/09rainbow/index.html
For those of you who have not seen the Global Junior Challenge award here
you go. It is the most unbelievable experience with Lieven, Mika and Maria
Teresa Globaldreamers and friends.
I also received an award from the Blue Heron International Pictures LLC for
our work around the world with the movie documentary Safe Haven- The Warsaw
Zoo. YOu can read about it here. This means so much to me and I can hardly
begin to express my excitement.
http://www.globaldreamers.org/09share/safehaven/index.html
Wishing everyone the best and please keep in touch.
My best ,
Marsha Goren
http://www.globaldreamers.org
Dream coordinator

Fall Project on Globaldreamers

Dear Friends,
It has been an exciting time in my life and coming back from Rome with an award has given me a great feeling to all of our hard work together since 2001. I thank you all warmly. For those of you who would like to share it with me virtually please check out the links at
http://www.globaldreamers.org/09jgc/index.html
You can also check out the Somewhere over the rainbow project which is so beautiful. Thank you all.
Our next project is our fall project. Please join us in fall fun and festivals.
http://www.globaldreamers.org/09fall/index.html
I hope this message finds you all well, please keep in touch with us and take part in our activities.
We are SO happy to have you all,
Sincerely,
Marsha Goren
Globaldreamers coordinator
http://www.globaldreamers.org

GJC 2009: the winners are announced

The Awards Ceremony took place today at the Rome City Hall, the Campidoglio, where twelve prizes were assigned along with two special mentions.

Awards were presented at the Campidoglio to the finalist of the 5th edition of the Global Junior Challenge, the international competition organised by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale to promote the innovative use of new technology for training, education, solidarity and international cooperation. Giovanni Biondi, Programming Department Manager, participated on behalf of the Italian Ministry of Education. Tullio De Mauro, the President of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale read out the motivations provided by the international jury and proclaimed the winners.

Laura Marsilio, Rome City Councillor for Schools, Family and Infancy presented the statuette of the Etruscan she-wolf with Romulus and Remus to the winning projects in each category:

* Bla Bla Bla e-democracy and minors (Vicenza, Italy) for the “Up to 10 years old” category
* Schoolvision 2009! (UK) for the “Up to 15 years old” category
* The Pizza Business Across Europe (Cosenza, Italy) for the “Up to 18 years old” category
* Ict4d Research and Resource Centre in the Rural Rwenzori Region (Uganda) for the “Up to 29 years old” category
* Takoradi Educational Resource Centre (Ghana) for the “Work” category
* EE-Net Game (Bari, Italy) for the “Creativity and Social Innovation” category


The President of the City Council, Marco Pomarici, presented The Special Prize of the President of the Republic, three silver medals to the most innovative Italian school projects:

* I’m at Home, but at School: a webcam to participate, Rome
* On-line Didactics for a Sustainable Planet, Terni
* New Technologies, Ancient Values: Radio K2, Verbania


The international jury also extended a special mention to two teachers for the quality and quantity of the projects presented: Marsha Goren (Ein Ganim Elementary School, Israel) and Marina Marino (Liceo scientifico Francesco Cecioni, Livorno).


The Small Fund Award, a small fund reserved for projects from the poorer areas of the world, went to:

* Ict4d Research and Resource Centre in the Rural Rwenzori Region (Uganda)
* Takoradi Educational Resource Centre (Ghana)
* Education in the prevention in Aids/Sti in the Andean Region and Caribbean, Peru
Alfonso Molina, Scientific Director of the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, presented the Small Fund Awards.
It was so exciting and I am so happy that Globaldreamers was selected for quantity and quality! We can all be proud.
Love, Marsha Goren
Article taken from http://www.gjc.it/en

Dear Friends,
First of all many thanks for the beautfiul dream materials that we are receiving for the Somewhere over the rainbow project where dreams that we dare to dream really do come true. It is not too late to join us. YOu can read about it here.
http://www.globaldreamers.org/share/index.html

I am writing to share some exciting news. I will be going to Rome on October 6th, for four days to the Global Junior Challenge and will be on the International jury . I will also be presenting the peace project from last year which I thought was really unique. I will also be attending a workshop and be part of an exhibition with the work we are all doing on Globaldreamers.
http://www.gjc.it/2009/en

Hope you are all well and looking forward to hearing from all of you.
Sincerely,
Marsha Goren
Dream coordinator
http://www.globaldreamers.org

Happy new year message

We invite everyone to join in our Dream project, wishing everyone the happiest and healthiest year ever,
Marsha and the Globaldreamers