2. Today’s aims:
Find out what eTwinning is all about
Project ideas – Kits and examples
Register or refine your eTwinning Profile
Start contacting teachers from across
Europe
Discover other British Council
opportunities
3. The Community for Schools in Europe
Facilitate collaboration between
teachers in different countries in
Europe
Collaborative curriculum projects
Sharing best practice
Professional development
4. What eTwinning offers:
Free resources
Safe online environment
No application form or lengthy admin
process
Could be your 1st step or could enhance
an existing link
Real context for learning and application
of ICT
5. Facts and Figures:
32 European Countries; over 180,000
European teachers; over 14,000 UK
teachers
6. Public Pages: project ideas and resources
Desktop: personal profile, partner-finding
tool, project registration
Twinspace: Your project’s
own virtual classroom with
communication tools and a
place to share your work for
your project
23. Quality Labels – Project
Requirements
1. The project must have common
goals and a shared plan.
2. It must be finished or in its last
stages.
3. The applying teacher must have
made significant contributions to
the project.
4. A certain degree of collaboration
must appear. The minimum to be
considered is using and reacting
to partners’ materials.
5. Project results must be visible.
24. Quality Labels – Criteria
The Criteria Indicators of a good project
Pedagogical Innovation Creativity: Pedagogical and methodological aspects of
and Creativity the project are original.
Innovation: The project has meant new ways of teaching
and learning for the students and teachers involved,
Curricular Integration The project is integrated in ordinary lesson plans
Use of Technology ICT tools used are appropriate according to the activities
and goals.
Sustainability and Sustainability in the school: the project is not an isolated
Transferability event but has become an integral part of the activities
and the educational objectives of the school
Transferability: aspects of the project can serve as a
model for other teachers and an example of good
practice.
Results and Benefits The extent of effects of the project results, including
dissemination outside the school. Educational and
pedagogical relevance of results and benefits.
27. Professional Development
Online Training Webinars
Workshops
Conferences
European partner finding events
Awards and recognition
www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning-
events.htm
29. Support
lauren.donovan@britishcouncil.org– Your local
eTwinning officer based in Cardiff
etwinning@britishcouncil.org– General
enquiries
On the web –
www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning – UK site
www.etwinninguk.typepad – eTwinning UK
Blog
www.twitter.com/etwinninguk – Follow us on
Twitter
30. British Council Opportunities
Link Classrooms Online
Professional Development Courses & Job
Shadowing
International School Partnerships
Work Overseas
CHRIS For the benefit of everyone, I am going to show the steps needed to 1.) register and 2.) login
CHRIS For the benefit of everyone, I am going to show the steps needed to 1.) register and 2.) login
VAL On this screen we are looking at “Find eTwinners”. This is where you can search for schools to partner with As you can see below, you can make: “ Quick Search” – use this if you already know the name of someone who is registered on eTwinning Use the extended search to search the database by “role”. “country”, “region”, “subject” etc
VAL This is a dummy search. We have searched for a school in Spain, who would like to do cross-curricular projects, aged 4-11
VAL We can easily learn a little bit more about Gloria from this page, she has included A profile photo On the right hand side, her “eTwinning life” She has noted that she is ready to start a project She last logged in quite recently so she is still active – this is a good thing to look for. You don’t want an inactive partner! Below this we have “My Journal”. There is a nice description from Gloria – you can see her page has attracted some replies. You can click on “Write a comment” to reply or just click ‘I like it’ Notice on the left, there is also a list of “My Contacts”. This is a bit like a Facebook or MySpace page. Every teacher on eTwining has this profile page. It is a good idea to keep yours updated and informative – more likely to attract partners this way. You can also click, on her school which is on blue text this lets you see who else from that school in registered and what projects they are
VAL This is always on the right hand side of the screen. You just click on this and it takes you to your eTwinning inbox. It’s a good way to communicate directly with teachers. How do you know if you have been sent a message? We’ll have a look on the next screen
VAL Here is a good top tip for you, check your notifications and make sure you are subscribed by clicking on the ‘subscribe button’ (Explain the notifications list)
CHRIS As well as searching for and contacting teachers directly, you can use more general searches, for example forums
Pause for questions before we move to next slide (Val – what was your experience of searching for and finding partners?)
JOHN Firstly, in the “Profile” section you should view your list of contacts. Click on “see all contacts” to expand the list
JOHN You will now see the complete list of all your contacts. You should check that your partner is listed in your contacts list. You will need your partner to be listed as a contact in order for you to submit your project.
Go to www.etwinning.net . Click on collaborate
You’ll see there’s a Project Gallery, short modules for projects (you may want a project idea for just a few hours activity), also you’ll find tips here for pupil collaboration. We’ll take a look at the project kits section - I’ll show you an example of one. Click on Project kits
As it explains on this screen shot, project kits are ready made guides - You’ll see that they are split into different categories and are rated by users, so click on a category or a title for more detail. For example, one of the most rated kits is ‘cooking and culture’ – click on the project title
KAREN We’ll take a break for a few seconds now for questions, before we have 3 concept check questions 30 second pause for them to take the mic. If no one does, moderator picks up mic to review chat box questions. 3 or 4 minute moderator review
JOHN When the project finishes or is nearing an end, we really encourage you to apply for a National Quality Label, this will be assessed.– if you are awarded with a QL, When you apply for a QL Your project must meet these 5 requirements before the National Support service will assess it. 1. The project must have common goals and a shared plan. 2. It must be finished or in its last stages. 3. The applying teacher must have made significant contributions to the project. 4. A certain degree of collaboration must appear. The minimum to be considered is using and reacting to partners ’ materials. 5. Project results must be visible.
JOHN These are all indicators of a good project. You will see these are all detailed on the document that Karen has shared with you earlier, as you may find these elements useful to discuss at the planning stage
JOHN This is the certificate you receive and can download this from your desktop. You’ll also receive a plaque at the end of the year and further to this you may then be put forward for a European Quality label or a National award, which could then be put forward for a European prize- prizes have included a trip to a european country for the class and their partner class or classes – lots of recognition!