Congratulations to all the students who have completed all the tasks in this project! This is what you have been doing over the past three months:

In your blog posts you briefly introduced yourselves, gave a vivid portrayal of your countries and described your vision of the use of ICT in everyday life.

All the headers that you created by using Microsoft Autocollage can be seen in this Animoto slide show.

Brilliant animations of the poems that you like have been converted into powerful videos.

And finally, your Autoshapes and Avatars show a lot of creativity and imagination. Right now we’re making a compilation of your avatars. The compilation will be published real soon, so watch this space.

But now it’s time to enjoy your well deserved Easter break. Happy holidays!

Today it is the 4th of April and as we wrote in one of the first posts it is the day the Catholic Church celebrates Saint Isidore, patron saint of the internet. I hope to solve the mistery one day of how Isidore of Seville who lived in the 6th century has been connected to the world wide web…

Anyway, the post important thing of this blog is to announce the winner of our flag competition and that is Nigel. On this very moment visitors of 12 different countries have visited his blog: Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Lichtenstein, Hungary, Denmark, the Netherlands, United States of America, United Arab Emirates.

Well done! Congratulations. Nigel will receive a prize very soon!

Our project seems to have come at full speed… If everything goes according to plan all participants will soon have a nice blog with 5 creative posts and this in just a few months’ time.

As you may have seen, we also count more than 30 country flags on our blog. Be sure that educators all over the world have interest in what we do. We all remember that on the 4th of April we will give a prize to the participant with the most country flag on his/her personal blog. So… spread the word!

Before that we can announce another winner. All visitors to this project got the opportunity to vote for the nicest header made with AutoCollage by all our students. For some days already it has been clear that it was hard to beat Melisa from Croatia, who turned out to be the creator of the most popular banner! Runner up was Bart from Belgium. Congratulations!

The earthquake that struck Japan on March 11 was one of the most powerful earthquakes since records began. It also created a horrific tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left many more homeless.

Ever since that day many people from all over the world have offered their help by giving donations. Many students want to express their support but don’t know how and where. If you’re one of them, you can now leave a message of encouragement for your Japanese peers on the message board We Love Japan.  For each message, the ELTBooks and The Pearson Foundation’s Japan Relief Fund will donate $1. Please do it before March 31 and don’t forget to write where you come from.

In addition to this, we strongly encourage you to take the Pennies for Japan  quiz on Mrs. MacConnell’s Wiki. Mrs. MacConnell’s students create a quiz about Japan every day. For each visitor who takes their quiz, they will donate $0.05 ($0.50 if you are from another country – and you are!) to the charity that gets the most votes. When you are done with the quiz, please vote for the charity.

Japan by embeddedineu, made at DoInk.com

It’s been two months since the launch of the EiEU project so it’s time to take stock of what you have done thus far.

All of you have created wonderful Autocollages of the networks you feel embedded in. Soon we’ll have the winner of the nicest collage. Right now, Melisa is in the lead. If you still haven’t cast your vote, please consider doing it by March 25.

Little flags in the sidebar of your blogs tell us where your visitors come from. The Flag Counter Competition will end on April 4. Nigel’s blog is still in the lead with 11 countries, but followed closely by Annelies (10 countries) and Laura (8 countries).

There are only eight students left who haven’t joined our blogging challenge yet. We hope to hear from you real soon. Here are the students who have written some nice posts about Belgium over the past week: Silke, Alexander, Arne, Glenn, Nigel and Vincent. Thomas has blogged about the importance of ICT.

We’ve had a wonderful opportunity to read some nice poems in your outstanding PowerPoint presentations as part of the  Words, Words task, but there are still many students who haven’t shared their favourite poem with us. We received new contributions by Silke, Tanja, Emily, Arne, Christophe, Nick, Jasmien, Nele, Bram, Apollo. Next week there will be more to come!

We hope you’re having fun with tags and avatars for your Lorenzo compositions.

Every time you update your status on your social networking site, upload a nice photo or publish a new post on your blog, you build your online identity and leave behind your digital footprint. 

  A digital footprint is a collection of activities and behaviours recorded when a person interacts in a digital environment. (source: Wikipedia) 

Your digital footprint is an indelible mark of your online presence. Therefore it’s very important that you behave as responsibly and sensibly in the cyberspace as you do in the “real” world. You never know when and by whom you will be googled and how that might influence your personal and professional life. 

That’s why your next task is to create a positive online identity…. with a little bit of help by Lorenzo!

There are 51 headers in this slideshow. Take a look and find yours.