24th and 25th' October  2003

7 educators and 4 students from 2  private and trust schools have successfully attended the 2 days iEARN  Training Program, that introduced them to the online collaborative projects featured in the iEARN Program: BRIDGE.

These programs are sponsored by iEARN-US and US Department of Education and Beareau of Cultural Affairs.

The BRIDGE Fall exchange group showed great enthusiasm in being the exchange participants and are very keen in attending  the 3 weeks exchange program.

"When I came to know about iEARN that this forum provides an opportunity to learn through globalization, I felt that if my dreams have come true and I started working on net and also started learning through this forum. Now I am visiting USA for further training. I am expecting to learn how this forum will be providing me the opportunity to learn and then teach to my countryman about the technology and teaching through technology. I hope to become a member of learning through globalization team and in this way I will be able to get out of the educational problems and issues by floating them on the net and getting the feed back form the world. This forum will save the money, material and the most precious, time for research work" -------- Saima Afzal

"I’ll be leaving for this student exchange program to USA. I want to go because I am keen to gain knowledge about the world, what is happening in the world and I also want to know the culture and traditions of other countries and nations. There are also some other reasons and that are by this program it will be my first experience of going to a place where I am not familiar with the people. I also want to go because one of ambition in life is that I want to probe the whole world so it can be my first step of success. But the most important reason is that by this program I will learn how to behave when you leave your homeland. This would also be my first experience to meet the children of other countries. By this program I will be able to learn the proper use of internet in home and in school. Learning this would be the most important of everything that I learn because I am a Computer student. In simple words I can say that I will learn so many things which I can’t imagine. In the end I would say that bridge fall student exchange program is a very good program for students as well as for teachers because they can learn many new things and can have many new experiences of their life." ---Nasir Ali

iEARN-Pakistan in collaboration with Rotary Club organised a 2 days BRIDGE Follow up Teacher Training Workshop at The Fauji Foundation School of Rawalpindi.

Rotary Club's Noreen Mirza also an iEARNer joined the group in the two days sessions and helped the facilitators in orienting the participants to iEARN and sharing her own experiences being an iEARNer.

"Bridge Exchange Program is a way to gain knowledge about world. By using iEARN Website we can gain too much information about world and can make good friends. By this Program I am going America. I can see culture of American’s and pick good habits in them. This Program will be very informative for us.  In America we will also visit schools. I will also observe their habits and customs. In this visit I expecting to see important places in that city, and new things that will give me more information. I am keen of gaining knowledge and by website of iEARN I can find too much answers of my questions. So in this way it is very informative for me and I spread it to other friends.
     I think that this program is best for students. "----- Ali Mohiudin

The participants  have enthusiastically completed all the offline and online  workshop activities and made real efforts to learn the skills and understand the concept of shared online learning.

The two days session was facilitated by  Sameena Akhtar who is a certified iEARN trainer and had participated in iEARN workshop in Feb'2003  she was assisted by Sarah Alam the students representative for iEARN Pakistan.