/EDU Updates
Make Your Peace
"Sometimes a dream is all it takes to change our world in the most unexpected, unforeseen and wonderful ways. Make Your Peace is exactly that: an invitation to dream big, to get involved in any way possible, to be creative, and to channel your tremendous energy by expressing yourselves through sports and the arts."
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
The Olympic Truce is symbolized by a dove of peace flying over the Olympic Rings. The dove holds an olive branch, another symbol of peace. The sacred flame of the Olympic Games appears in the background.
Download Make Your Peace: An Olympic Truce Guide For Educators
Show us your stuff! You are invited to participate in the “Do Your Part” VANOC Sustainability national video contest
WHO can enter?
Any resident of Canada, between the ages of 13 and 24 may enter the contest.
Videos must be submitted by Sunday December 6, 2009 to be eligible to win.
The contest is supported by:
CanadaCODE Educator’s Guide
Use this guide to provide tools to integrate Canada CODE and digital storytelling into your curriculum (canadacode.vancouver2010.com). In addition to the educator’s guide, the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has created digital storytelling tips at canadacode.vancouver2010.com/NFB-ONF to be used in conjunction with the guide.
Intellectual Muscle
Intellectual Muscle is an eclectic series of talks by prominent and up-and-coming Canadian intellectuals on topics related to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Athlete in the Classroom
Looking for an athlete to motivate and inspire your students? Here is a list of resources that will help bring an athlete into your classroom — either live or virtually.
Project Showcase
To showcase your school’s projects, teachers can simply submit a brief description to the /EDU Project Showcase along with supporting images, video links or web links.
Here are some examples of projects already being showcased on /EDU:
Children from École Jean-XXIII will be invited to write articles on athletes, sports, the history of the Olympics and Paralympics and Canadian Olympic values. The articles will be featured in the schools’ newspaper and on their online news page
"Culture, Education, Sports and Ethics Program"
Teachers in over a dozen countries have been collaborating, with their students, about the meaning of drug-free sporting competition
/EDU Communications Toolkit
With excitement building towards the 2010 Winter Games we have been receiving a lot of requests for communications materials to promote our education programs in newsletters and on websites. I am pleased to provide you with a communications toolkit that includes materials for these purposes.
For a brief overview of /EDU, please watch our two minute video tour.
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Vancouver 2010 Education Program Launches and Events
2009
| September | Heroes Live Here (launch) |
| September | Register for Paralympic Ticket Program |
| October | Canada CODE Educator’s Guide (launch) |
| October | Intellectual Muscle (launch) |
| October | Olympic Truce Educator’s Guide (launch) |
| October 30 - February 12 | Olympic Torch relay |
| October | Paralympic School Days (Vancouver/Whistler region) |
| November 2 - 6 | Pan-Canadian Paralympic School Week |
| November 5 | Sharing the Dream Webcast #4, Paralympism: Inclusiveness and Diversity with Donovan Tildesley and Andrea Holmes. |
2010
| January | Games Time Guide for Educator’s (launch) |
| January | Sharing the Dream Webcast #5, tbd |
| Feb 1 – March 21 | Cultural Olympiad Festival and Events |
| February 12 – Feb 28 | Olympic Winter Games |
| March 12 – March 21 | Paralympic Games |
| April | Sharing the Dream Webcast #6, tbd All dates and times are subject to change. |
