🌟 Bookmark Exchange Project 2024 🌟

The Bookmark Exchange Project is a wonderful initiative that connects schools around the globe by exchanging homemade bookmarks. Here’s your chance to get creative and make unique bookmarks in any style or shape! Remember to incorporate this year’s exciting theme. The exchange will take place BY POST during October or early November.

🎨 Why Participate?

This project is a simple and fun way to:

•  📖 Celebrate Books and Libraries: Share the pleasure and delight of reading.

•  🌍 Build Global Friendships: Make new friends through school libraries worldwide.

If you and your students didn’t participate last year, now is the perfect time to get involved!

 🌏 Cultural Exchange Opportunities

• ✉️ Communicate and Learn: Encourage your students to interact with their partner schools while making bookmarks. This is a fantastic way to learn about different cultures and lifestyles.

• 🔍 Conduct In-depth Investigations: Alternatively, students can research each other’s localities for a richer learning experience.

• 💡 Create Your Own Activity: If preferred, simply swap bookmarks or devise your own exciting activity. The possibilities are endless!

Make this year’s Bookmark Exchange Project memorable and enriching for your students. Let’s celebrate the joy of reading and build lasting connections across the globe!

✨ Project Details

•  🎨 Get Creative: Design bookmarks in any style, shape, or form, and keep this year’s theme in mind.

• 🌍 Cultural Exchange: Encourage your students to communicate with their partner schools while making bookmarks. This interaction will allow them to learn about different cultures and ways of life. Alternatively, students can conduct in-depth research on each other’s localities. If preferred, simply swap bookmarks or create your own activity. The choice is yours!

 📝 Steps to Participate

1. 🖥️️ Register Online: Use the provided Google Forms links for your age group. If you encounter any issues, email your details to the appropriate Project Coordinator.

2. 📧 Ensure Accurate Contact Details: Provide correct and current email addresses to avoid communication issues.

3. 🤝 Coordinator Assignments: ISLM Project Coordinators will assign partners. While participant requests are considered, specific partner assignments are not guaranteed.

4. 📞 Contact Your Partner: Once assigned, reach out to your partner school to arrange the bookmark exchange and any additional activities.

5. 🔧 Technical Preparation: Arrange a test call via Skype, Zoom, or MS Teams with your partner school a day before the scheduled session to avoid technical difficulties.

6.  📸 Document Your Exchange: Take screenshots during the session and submit them for inclusion on the “What Others Are Doing for ISLM” webpage.

7. 🎓 Certificates: After completing the project, download e-certificates for your school, students, and yourself. Certificates will be available on the webpage around November-December.

 📅 Important Dates

• ️ ️🗓️ Registration Deadline: The closing date for registering for the 2024 Bookmark Exchange Project is October 26, 2024.

• 📬 Exchange Method: Bookmarks must be exchanged by post. For a digital alternative, please see the 2024 Digital Bookmark Exchange Project.

 🚨 Important Notes

• ⚠️ Commitment: By registering, you commit to exchanging bookmarks with your assigned partner(s). Failure to fulfill this commitment may result in your school being barred from future ISLM projects. We rely on everyone’s sincerity and professionalism for the success of this project.

• 🦠 COVID-19 Guidelines: Ensure compliance with health and safety guidelines when participating in the project.

‍ ‍🧑‍🏫 Coordinators for 2024

12 Years and Under

• Age Group 5-6: Dr. Luisa Marquardt; luisa.marquardt@uniroma3.it

• Age Group 7-8: Svetlana Orlova; lana-orlova@mail.ru

• Age Group 9-10: Tracy Li; qingyuli@connect.hku.hk

• Age Group 11: Leona Kapus; csegesuli.konyvtar@gmail.com

Over 12 Years

• Age Group 12-13: Abha Singh; abha.singh@british-school.org

• Age Group 14-15: Chingakham L. Devi; chinglei24@gmail.com

• Age Group 16-17: Sunita Malekar; sunita.malekar@misp.org

• Age Group 18-22: Melita P. Banovec; melita.petris.banovec@gmail.com

 📬 Contact Information

For any queries related to ISLM, please contact Ramandeep, Chairperson ISLM at letscelebrateislm@gmail.com.

 📋 Registration Forms:

For the UNDER 12's:  

• 5-6 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 5-6 YEARS OLD  | View Pairings

• 7-8 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 7-8 YERAS OLD | View Pairings

• 9-10 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 9-10 YEARS OLD  | View Pairings

• 11 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 11 YEARS OLD  | View Pairings

For the ABOVE 12's:  

• 12-13 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 12-13 YEARS OLD | View Pairings

• 14-15 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 14-15 YEARS OLD | View Pairings

• 16-17 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 16-17 YEARS OLD  | View Pairings

• 18-22 year olds: REGISTRATION FORM 18-22 YEARS OLD | View Pairings

IASL has created a listserv specifically for those with interest in ISLM. Please use the following link to sign up for the listserv in order to receive the latest happenings about ISLM. Thank you for supporting IASL & participating in ISLM.

Sign up here:https://www.freelists.org/list/iaslisl

Disclaimer:

ISLM and IASL are not responsible for any shipping expenses, including customs taxes. Participants should be aware that some bookmark exchanges may incur additional costs, such as customs fees, which must be covered by the participating schools or individuals. Please ensure that your budget allows for these potential expenses before committing to the exchange. Last year, some exchanges were unsuccessful due to schools not having funds allocated for customs expenses.