[Bcma-l] Sample School Projects for /EDU

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

/EDU: the Canadian school portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and 
Paralympic Winter Games needs sample school projects

/EDU is an online, bilingual e-magazine and portal created by the 
Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee. You can find 
it at www.vancouver2010.com/edu. It’s designed as a site where teachers 
and students can connect to the Olympic and Paralympic Movements and 
with the three pillars of the movements: sport, culture and sustainability.

With the support of the BC Ministry of Education, /EDU is including a 
School Showcase highlighting class projects created in the Olympic 
spirit – “improving ourselves, our communities and our world.” In order 
to assist teachers who may wish to submit projects to the Web site and 
to get the ball rolling with classroom content to /EDU, VANOC is asking 
for sample classroom projects that fall within the categories of sport, 
culture, sustainability, Vancouver 2010, and the Olympic and Paralympic 
Games.

We are looking for projects at the elementary and secondary levels on a 
range of categories in either English or French. These sample projects 
may be documented with photos, audio samples, or video. This is open to 
teachers throughout British Columbia. We can offer hands-on assistance 
to help document class projects for teachers in the lower mainland, and 
we can give telephone and email support to those teachers elsewhere in BC.

If you are working with teachers on a suitable project or if there is 
something coming up that you think the teachers would like to put 
online, please contact us or forward this information. We are looking 
for responses by email or phone by Monday, March 17th. We would like the 
responses to include: a short description of the project, the grade 
level, the kind of documentation that can be provided, and contact 
information. This is a great opportunity for students to share in the 
Olympic and Paralympic spirit and for your collaborations with teachers 
and students to appear in a high-profile international Web site.


If you are interested in participating or need more information, please 
contact:
Megan Frazer, Project Manager
7th Floor Media at Simon Fraser University
Tel: 778.782.5283
E-mail: megan@7thfloormedia.com

For more information about VANOC’s Education Programs, please contact:
Christina Adams Coordinator, Education Programs
Coordonnatrice, Programmes d’éducation
VANOC - Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and 
Paralympic Winter Games / COVAN - Comité d’organisation des Jeux 
olympiques et paralympiques d'hiver de 2010 ŕ Vancouver
Tel / tél. : 778. 328. 4024
E-mail / courriel : christina_adams@vancouver2010.com