About /EDU
/EDU is the Canadian school portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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/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.
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The official Canadian School Portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is called /EDU and can be found at vancouver2010.com/EDU. Here teachers can access resources that connect existing curricula to the 2010 Winter Games.
One of the most exciting features of /EDU is the “Project Showcase” where teachers share student projects and activities related to the Games or in the areas of sport, culture and sustainability. Imagine the work of your students and your school being showcased on the official website for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games for the entire world to see and share.
In addition, every teacher who submits a project to /EDU receives an official Vancouver 2010 certificate to hang in their classroom or in their school’s display cabinet, as well as stickers and pins for their students. All project submissions will also be entered into a grand prize draw to be held in February 2010.
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:
- My Favourite Sport
- Time Flies: An Integrated Arts Project
- First Nations Drums
- Science Scrum
- Haldane’s 18th Annual Earth Day Celebration
- Olympic Heights School Inukshuk
- Paralympic Newspaper Project: Inspired by Vancouver 2010 Paralympic School Day Program
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Find out how (your organization’s) students are participating with the 2010 Winter Games at vancouver2010.com/EDU, the Canadian school portal for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. (If available a “Project Showcase” sample from your organization may be dropped into your communications piece.)
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For a brief overview of /EDU, please watch our two minute video tour.
Here at /EDU teachers can:
- find resources related to school curricula across Canada
- find ways to connect students to the 2010 Winter Games
- share with the world innovative projects already happening in their schools
/EDU features five main themes: sport, culture, sustainability, the Olympic Movement and the Paralympic Movement, plus the overarching theme of global citizenship.
Download a Vancouver 2010 poster for your school or classroom.
- resources, events and activities that can be used to meet curriculum requirements in a wide range of subject areas
- feature programs endorsed by Vancouver 2010 to promote the development of sport, culture and sustainability for future generations
- features student, classroom, school and district projects submitted by educators
- every submission to /EDU receives a Vancouver 2010 certificate which can be hung in a classroom or school display cabinet
- all submissions are also automatically entered into a grand prize draw to be held in January 2010
- a professional online community inspiring teachers to share ideas, best practices and classroom resources
- teachers have the opportunity to interact with special guests as well as each other
- University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Faculty of Education is facilitating the forum, providing useful topics for discussion as well as suggesting new and relevant education resources in the areas of sport, culture and sustainability to bring into the classroom
- more programs, activities and events that teachers can use to connect with Vancouver 2010
