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New South Wales, Australia

Three eMINTS National Center staff members spent two weeks in Sydney and Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia in February 2008, providing professional development to a group of more than 20 Australian educators. The Aussies are participating in the Professional Development for Educational Technology Specialists (PD4ETS) program and expect to complete certification requirements for becoming certified eMINTS instructional specialists. Each Aussie eMINTS specialist will work with teachers across the region to help them become official eMINTS teachers through a special program called “e-iteach.”

The Australian connection occurred as a result of a presentation made by eMINTS Director Monica Beglau at the British Educational Technology event (BETT) in London in 2006. Carole McDiarmid, Regional Director of the Western New South Wales region, was in the audience. She followed up with a visit to the U.S. and to eMINTS classrooms in the St. Louis, MO, area in November 2006. Principal John Willing (Forbes Public School in Forbes, NSW) and his wife, Lois, visited Columbia, MO, in July 2007 as part of John’s Microsoft scholarship to visit U.S. schools and programs. Columbia Public Schools hosted the Willings in several eMINTS summer school classrooms.

The partnership between eMINTS and the Western NSW Region continues to grow and benefit both parties through the exchange of educational ideas and practices.

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Reviewed May 22, 2008.