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Slides from ECO-Scools / eTwinning workshop in Malta
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Workshop
13. - 16. October 2010 – Malta
ECO-Schools & eTwinning
Ebbe SchultzeChief AdvicereTwnning National Support Service, Danmark (NSS) UNI•C [email protected]
eTwinning is an initiative of the European Commission supported by all member states
eTwinning: “The community for schools in Europe”
• It is therefore publicly-funded and is free to schools
• It aims to increase the number and quality of online collaborative school partnership.
The eTwinning action works with Affiliate partners
• Work within a multilingual and multicultural society• Synergy between the partners projects • Together, the partners promote and enhance school
collaboration through the medium of ICT• Increase participation of schools in online collaborative
projects• Provide the schools with easy access to
– collaboration networks– projects and activities– contacts, tools and services
• Promote and support the development of a collaborative project pedagogy
• Coordinate and cooperate with other public and private partners aiming at achieving similar objectives.
The eTwinning portal consist of 3 subportals• The open eTwinning portal
www.etwinning.net. Where everyone can see the registered schools, look on the individual projects and be inspired to eTwinning projects, and can register as en eTwinning teacher.
• The closed eTwinning Desktop. As a registered teacher you have access to the Orange eTwinning Desktop. Consist of partner finding tools and project tools.
• The project portal: TwinSpace, www.new-twinspace.etwinning.net. Build up your own portal with web 2.0 tools, invite teachers and pupils from all the participating classes.
Benifits of the partnership
• Eco-Schools and eTwinning both have large networks of schools
• eTwinning schools are often searching for partner schools focsing on environmental education
• Existing eTwinning school partnerships/project can indeed invite schools from outside Europe
• eTwinning is already building up ”Pedagogical kits”. Eco-Schools could provide such best practice examples
• eTwinning.net is becoming a truly web 2.0 collaboration site
• Multilingual support in almost all European countries, but however based on national basis
eTwinning: www.etwinning.net• Galleri (gode examples): www.etwinning.net/da/pub/inspiration/gallery.cfm• Learning Lab, www.learninglab.etwinning.net/• eTwinning 2.0 – an online-community for schools in Europa 70p.
http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/DA_eTwinning_brochure.pdf• Step by step - Twinspace (en) 35s.
http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/Step_by_Step_Support_EN_new.pdf• Video vejledninger:
• Malta workshop TwinSpace: new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p36278/
• http://etwinninguk.wikispaces.com/
• http://etwinninguk.wikispaces.com/file/list#list?o=20&rid=1
Links:
eTwinning-portal in 23 language: etwinning.net
• 100.000 teachers from more than 75.000 schools in 32 countries.
• About 25.000 project between two or more schools.
• Find a partner class.• Build a project• Share ideas• Exchange good
practice
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‘How would you improve eTwinning?’