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Portal Koolielu forwards information about different events in the
educational life in Estonia and elsewhere: conferences, competitions, the
possibilities of supplementary education and leisure activities.
Web environment offers teachers free and controlled study materials, also the
possibility to communicate with other teachers in forum.
Information here is mostly directed to the teachers of Estonian comprehensive schools
but also to everyone who is interested in education. At the moment most of
the portal is in the Estonian language, but we also mediate educational
information from the whole world through the great number of web sites and
links.
Twice a week
important problem or event is
presented at the front page to offer everyone to think along. Every day new information about the events in the life
of education and culture is published. For example: information about a new exhibition in the virtual
art centre.
The section of articles offers interesting
reading material to teachers as well as other people who could be interested in
education.
In the forum
people are welcome to discuss and express their opinion about different
educational issues.
Everyone visiting the portal can
send his ads and news.
The portal encourages teachers to use technology and
enrich the academic classes. This is also the aim of the subdivision Study
materials
where the teachers may find lesson plans, work sheets for students,
and useful links completed and found by their own colleagues. For example: the grammar exercises for English
classes and ecological
learning environment about the cleanness of water.
Reviews
about the simulation games in social
studies (history and social study) and environmental studies (biology and
ecology).
The portal provides teachers with links and reviews of
educational software, the bigger part of which has reached Estonian schools thanks to Tiger Leap Foundation
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Tiger Leap is a national program that
aims to develop the Estonian education applying up-to-date information and
communications technologies.
The program has been directed to comprehensive
schools most of all but it also embraces preliminary and vocational education.
The real activity of the program was started in 1997.
In the autumn of 2001,
the Tiger Leap Foundation and the Intel Corporation started a new program of
supplementary schooling for teachers - "Arvuti koolis" ("Computer at School") that is the
Estonian version of the international trade mark "Teach to the Future". It is an
international schooling program that aims to encourage teachers to use and
integrate information technologies more effectively in their classes.
The Tiger
Leap Foundation supports publishing Koolielu's portal.
Koolielu's portal is one of the projects that aims to develop the Estonian
education, it supports the qualitative changes, provides teachers with
possibilities to find information about education and schools in Estonia and the
rest of the world.
Our overall aim for the future is to become a full and equal member of
eSchoolnet and forward the news about the Estonian education in English or any
other language spoken in Europe, to the rest of the world.
In Russian: Koolielu took part in russian forum www.televio.nm.ru, see
also http://vio.fio.ru/vio_site/cd_site/Articles/meeting_005_1.htm
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