Welcome to the INSPIRE teachers Community of Practice. The aim of this community is:

• to find ways of challenging the lack of interest among students to start scientific studies
• to discuss the use of digital learning resources (also known as Learning Objects, or LOs) in Maths, Science and Technology (MST) education.

If you mention the Inspire teachers Community of Practice in Flickr or Twitter, you can use the following keywords for your online content and they will be added to this community:
Flickr: isa-at // Twitter: #isa-at.

During the next few months, the main topics of the forum will be:

• Topic 1 (20 August to 20 September 2009): Impact of LOs on pupil motivation - join in now!
• Topic 2 (21 September to 20 October 2009): Theoretical framework of pedagogical methods for use in context of LOs
• Topic 3 (21. October to 20 November 2009): Technical guidance on accessing/using LOs

Additionally, we welcome you to share any additional information and stories on teaching MST with digital resources through blog posts, new forums, etc.

New to Inspire?
If you are new to the Inspire project, I invite you to have a look at the project's website: http://inspire.eun.org. If you have already been working with the project for a while, make sure to make the new teachers feel welcome!

To all of you, again, welcome and thank you for your participation on behalf of all the Inspire partners.

Àgueda
Inspire Project Manager
European Schoolnet

With the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union

European Schoolnet, a network of 31 Ministries of Education in Europe runs this community. We also run the Xplora portal for science teachers.