Educarchile English

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www.educarchile.cl


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educarchile

The national educational internet portal

A partnership with the Ministry of Education (through Enlaces)

Supported by a network of public and private strategic alliances:

ICT corporations (MICROSOFT, COMPAQ, SUN MICROSYSTEMS, etc)

educational content creators and owners (universities, foundations, etc.)

audiovisual creators and producers (animation, video, games, etc.)

technological developers (CMS, web tools, etc.)

national public funding institutions (CORFO)

international funding institutions (IDB, WB, ICA, etc.)


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the portal

segmented audiences

services forteachers, students,

families, researchers and schools

focus on added value

fully updated twice a month

leading attributes:

useful

representative

national

autonomous

participative

public service

pluralist

innovative

quality

communicative


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the goals

To provide educational information,

resources, services and experiences

in high quality and innovative

formats.

To stimulate the creation andparticipation of all members of the

educational community through

communication, interaction and

collaboration.

To foster the creation and

development ofICT competencies for

the support of the educational activity

and the integration of all people into

the information society.


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forthe teachers

INFORMATION

segmented news and articles

RESOURCES

creation and retrieval of lesson plans

educational library

educational experiences sharing

personal web pages

professional development

SERVICES

email

hard disk space

chats and forums

specialized search engine

support center


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forthe students

INFORMATION


RESOURCES

homework support

PSU support

personal web pages educational library

educational web resources

dictionaries and translators

SERVICES

email

hard disk space

chats and forums


support center


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forthe family

INFORMATION


RESOURCES

content retrieval by subject: web content for the family

growing together

family and school

spare time

family web pages


SERVICES

email

hard disk space chats and forums


support center


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fortheresearchersINFORMATION


analysis and info-graphs

RESOURCES

researchers network

content retrieval by subject:

school management / educationeconomy

distance education / ICT andeducation / education policies / etc.

web resources

personal web pages


SERVICES

email

hard disk space

chats and forums


support center


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fortheschool managementINFORMATION


RESOURCES

tools: institutional planning

human resources

financials administrative processes

web resources

institutional web pages

innovative practices

SERVICES

email

hard disk space

chats and forums


support center


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the results so far(since OCT 2001)

10.000.000 visits

62.631.000 page views

178.638 registered users65.539 teachers

77.706 students

29.876 parents5.517 researchers

50.000 active email boxes

11.000 content units

12.000 support center services

426 user published web sites

13 contestswith 8.554 studentsand1.406 teachers participating


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the results so far

priority audience: teachers (UC survey)

86% teachers know the portal

76% teachers have used it

68% visited it last month

49% used it to download content forhis/her professional activities

26% used the lesson plans tool

52% of chilean teachers are registeredusers of educarchile


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the challenges

Multimedial resources to foster theteaching of English as second languageand the use ofICT in the classroom

Digitalization of the entire curriculum

SIMCE support On-line assessment tools for teachers

and students

New audiences:

preschool, special (handicapped)and technical schools

principals and management staff

university students

Formation programs for the family


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the network

Deployment of a network ofeducational portals throughout Latin-America

Initial partners:

ArgentinaColombia

Chile

Ecuador

Financial support:

IDB

ICA

Take off: June 2004


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