Hi...whoever my visitor is... :)

I am an English teacher in a French Highschool called Le Lycée de Beauregard, a teacher trainer for the Académie de Lyon and I also teach students and PhD researchers at the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne.

I'm the E.S.P. (European Schools Projects) coordinator for France, therefore I have the pleasure to be part of a very friendly community of professionals who use ICT in education.

My favourite project is originally one of the Web for Schools Timeline projects : European Festivals and Traditions, I work in very close collaboration with Pat Spiller (Barcelona - Spain), Reinhard Forster (Munich - Germany) and our new partners Alexandra Papazoglou (Athens - Greece) and Marie Leucci (Glasgow - Scotland). More than 20 schools from 10 European countries and three worlwide guests have contributed so far and it's growing ... growing ... thanks to the work and sharing of our wonderful team.
"European Festivals and Traditions" is a Comenius, European School Net, an E.S.P. and an I*EARN project, it was also selected by the German ICT programme called Schulen ans Netz.

"European Festivals and Traditions" has already been presented at the Web for Schools Conference in Dublin/Ireland, at the EITC'96 in Brussels/Belgium, at the Openclassroom II Conference in Heraklion/Crete, and at the ESP Conference in Copenhagen/Denmark in March.

Thanks to the Web for Schools Project, I have learnt to use ICT at school and I am now involved in a few more projects which give my students a unique opportunity to speak/write English, make web pages and exchange emails with the rest of the world. I am an active militant of the use of ICT in Education.

• A group of 26 pupils has therefore taken part in the UN Peace Poem Project.
  38 countries have contributed to this hopeful and romantic cry for Peace on Earth.
• One group got involved in a "Mini Circle" type of project with two schools in Massachussetts, one in Germany and one in Australia.
  The pupils and I have tried to learn from this experience.
• 13 students exchange emails and web pages with the University of Waikato, New Zealand and also regularly participate in a Global Email Forum with the same university.
• 19 boys (17 years old) and a team of 4 teachers have contributed to the wonderful UN Schools Demining Schools Project and worked on UN educational units, exchanged emails with officials, victims and demining teams, manufactured metal key-rings at school and are raising funds to actually demine a school in Africa. A tremendous adventure which has taught us all a lot.

Hope these few links will help you to get ideas on how to start ICT projects !! :-)