Claus Berg's presentation "TEACHER TRAINERS…" about eTwinning at the Multilateral workshop in Esbjerg, Denmark. 11-13 April 2012.

1. eTwinning
…Community for schools in Europe
Claus Berg
TEACHER TRAINERS…
UNI•C
Multilateral Workshop
eTwinning National
@clausberg Support Service,
Denmark
Esbjerg, Denmark etwinning@uni-c.dk
Presentation at:
slideshare.net/clausberg

2. Who
Claus Berg @clausberg, Chief Consultant
•UNI-C, The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research
•Ministry of Children and Education
Lisbeth Kodal
•Consultant, Centre for Educational Resources,
•University College Syddanmark
Jacob Elholm
•Consultant, Centre for Educational Resources,
•University College Syddanmark
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3. Programme & Focus: etwinning.elholms.dk …App! :-)
Focus
•How does eTwinning fit into
basic teacher training?
•What are the opportunities and
challenges?
•Which questions arise regarding
internationalization?
•How can eTwinning and teacher
training institutions (colleges
etc.); i.e teacher trainees and
their trainers gain from one
another, in different European
education systems?
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4. What is eTwinning?
Community for schools in Europe
•Teachers and pupils collaborating, working and learning together
•Supports cooperation between schools in Europe
•160,000+ registered teachers
•90,000+ schools
• 5,000+ projects
•32 countries
•Part of Comenius
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5. eTwinning Focus
Globalized society
•Bring international qualifications into focus
•Framework for experience, immersion and initiative which contributes to
the students' inclination to work with language and culture
•The focus is both on collaborative projects, multicultural dimensions,
ICTs and social networking
•eTwinning also aims to further teachers' professional development with
many offers free of charge
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7. Teachers say (1/3)
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8. Teachers say (2/3)
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9. eTwinning web // 3 portals
• 1. Open eTwinning portal www.etwinning.net where
everyone can browse registered schools, get an idea
about specific projects, and seek inspiration. Teachers
register here.
• 2. eTwinning Desktop for registered teachers. Requires
login at www.etwinning.net. Here you find partners and
registrer and maintain your projects.
• 3. TwinSpace new-twinspace.etwinning.net, which is
created for you and your partner, when your eTwinning
project has been approved by the two National Support
Services (NSS).
- Or you could be invited to an already existing
TwinSpace, as participant or guest.

10. 1. The open portal www.etwinning.net

11. Ebbe Schultze <etwinning@uni-c.dk>
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12. Registrering on etwinning.net – Step 1
Pre-registration.
Click the yellow button ”Register” and fill in…
…Then you’ll received an email with a link

13. Registrering on etwinning.net – Step 2
In step 2 you’lI first check if your school is already in eTwinning.
If it’s not on the list, please register as a new school.
…Then you fill in the three tabs, which make you a personal profile:
- About sourself, Twinning preferences, and Preview & validation.

14. 2. eTwinning Desktop
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15. 3. TwinSpace – Virtual workspace for your project

16. TwinSpace – Tools for you teachers, and your pupils
Including:
•Chat
•Internal project email
•Calendar
•Invite participants, also pupils
(and with tailormade user
rights)
•Save files
•Make web pages
•Discussion forum
•Wiki and blog
•Subscribe RSS-info
•See who’s online

17. Video, images, files, blogs, wikis etc.

18. Teachers say (3/3)
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