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Building bridges across Europe with eTwinning
Alexandra Tosi, Unità nazionale eTwinning Italia
Bolzano 29/04/2016Unità eTwinning Italia – INDIRE
The community of schools in Europe
An online community where teahers of all Euroepe and beyond can meet colleagues, exchange ideas and practices, attend free training opportunities and carry out collaborative projects at distance in a safe environment.
The first step is to register to the online platform www.etwinning.net
One person = one registration
What is eTwinning?
eTwinning aims atPEDAGOGICAL INNOVATIONIntegrating ICT in traditional teaching methods, fostering project based learning, cross-curricular collaboration and student-centered learning.
TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENTOffering many online and on site professional development opportunities (Learning Events/Webinars, PDW, Multilateral Seminars) and peer learning in Groups and Projects.
EUROPEAN DIMENSIONStrengthening the feeling of European Citizenship in young generations and fostering school internationalization.
Countries in eTwinning• 28 EU member countries + Norway, Iceland, Turkey,
FYROM, Albania, Bosnia-Erzegovina, Serbia and Lichtenstein
• eTwinning Plus: eTwinning Plus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Tunisia, Ucraina
How it worksHow it works
eTwinning after 10 years
EUROPESchools 160.000Teachers 380.000Projects 49.000 ITALY
Schools 11.500 Teachers 37.000 Projects 13.800*
*>2.000 all’anno TRENTINO ALTO ADIGESchools 280 Teachers 590Projects 180
eTwinning after 10 years
eLearning LLP eTwinning goes Social!
ERASMUS +eTwinning goes Live!
PNSDIndicazioni per il Curricolo
Formazone iniziale e Neoassunti
CLIL
Sept 2015, eTwinning 3 goes Live!New Desktop Live! Where education happens! • Integration in the platform of a webconferencing tool (Adobe
Connect) free for all registered eTwinning, both for dissemination/training purposes in eTwinning Live and for partner communication and collaboration within projects and groups
• A continuous offer of eTwinning Events, both spontaneus events organized by teachers and «sponsored» events by CSS and NSS
• eTwinning Groups: platform for teachers networks
What can you do in eTwinning?Professional Development
• EU Learning Events https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/progress/learning_events.htm• EU Online Seminars https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/progress/online_seminars.htm • IT Webinars http://etwinning.indire.it/formazione-e-supporto/formazione-online/webinar/ • IT Courses on eTwinning (next one in May)
http://etwinning.indire.it/formazione-e-supporto/formazione-online/corsi-online-etwinning/ • IT Regional seminars http://etwinning.indire.it/articolo.php?id_cnt=3647 • Other F2F seminars
http://etwinning.indire.it/formazione-e-supporto/formazione-in-presenza/
Peer to peer and informal learning in eTwinning Groups, eTwinning Events, projects…
Distance collaboration Projects with ad hoc platform as a secure environment that serve as virtual classrooms for teachers and pupils
eTwinning projects for distance collaboration among teachers and students from the same or different countries
•Total flexibility: you choose the subject, the type and complexity of the activities and the length of the collaboration. Almost immediate approval!
•No deadlines or bureaucratic procedures to register and activate a project!
•Once you register a project, you will have access to your own TwinSpace, a secured online platform with ICT tools, where you can invite your pupils and other teachers to work together. You can decide what parts should be public and what private, you can assign Teachers’ and Pupils’ roles.
•An integrated videoconferencing tool and chat for live meetings!
•Technical & pedagogical support, helpdesk line
•Quality Certification that can lead to publications (paper or/and online), case studies, National and European Prizes.
eTwinning for projects
eTwinning and Key Competences:•European Parliament and Council Recommendation 2006/962/EC, on key competences for lifelong learning•2012 MIUR: Regolamento con le Indicazioni per il Curriculo per la scuola dell’infanzia e il primo ciclo d’istruzione•European publication Developing pupil competences through eTwinning http://files.eun.org/etwinning/book2014/EN_Etwinning_2014.pdf
•eTwinning Ambassadors Taskforce for the drafting of a Students’ competences Certification Sheet (webinar June)
Teaching witheTwinning means…• Project based learning• Cross curricular and close to real life contest• Use of communication language in a real and stimulating environment• Use of ICT as a means of communication and creation/production• Group work, students take on responsibilities and tasks, learn to meet
deadlines and to collaborate in order to reach a shared outcome• Peer learning• Use of a variety of tools, channels, styles for communication and
collaboration with partners according to the contest and adequate to the task given (various 2.0 tools, ppt, video, photo story, cartoon, text etc.)
• Encourages students’ active participation in all phases of the project from planning to evaluation, fostering their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit
• Collaboration in a multilingual and multicultural contest• Informed and safe use of Internet as source of information and means of
communication
Example of Students competences Certification Sheet - BIENNIO(as foreseen by the national regulation) filled in with the evaluation of eTwinning activitesBy Silvia Minardi
e il gruppo della Taskforce Ambasciatori eTwinning
eTwinning e il CLIL Few uselful links with materials produced by eTwinning teachers:
• www.itcgfermi.it/progetti/Etwinning/docs/eTwinning & CLIL_Marina Marino.pdf (Marina Marino, eTwinning ambassador in Toscana)
• https://prezi.com/3bnlujwlotex/etwinning-e-clil/ (Enrica Maragliano, eTwinning ambassador in Liguria)• http://www.copernico.prato.it/uploads/1415etwinning_minucci.pdf?token=c3708914269c70eb340289233f835d33c6eebf2e|1
443185578#PDFP (Paola Minucci, Liceo Copertinco di Prato)
• KA1 E+ Project ISIS Galilei Gorizia «Integrating eTwinning in CLIL classes» https://sites.google.com/a/isitgo.it/integrating-etwinning-in-clil-classes/home
Learning Event:* April 2016 – finished * Autumn 2016 new
eTwinning & Piano Nazionale Scuola Digitale PNSD
Webinar Il nuovo PNSD•March 2016
Same platform as for projects with only slight differences.
•Featured Groups, list https://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/progress/groups.htm es. Virgilio – Your eTwinning Guide
•Other Groups founded by teachers (browse in eTwinning Live): es. eTwinning e la realtà
•Create you own Group (from eTwinning Live)
eTwinning for GroupsTeachers’ networks
Some examples and ideas for networks you can use eTwinning for to share experiences, materials, discuss in forums, help each other, carry out parallel sperimentations in classes:
•Group of teachers who teach the same subject or share interests
•Groups of teachers and schools sperimenting on Coding, Gamification, or other innovative methodology both at national & international level
•Teachers from a same school who want share practicess and materials, sperimentations on vertical curriculum or cross-curricular projects
•Group of teachers who want to share know-how and good practices for professional development purposes
•PNSD (there is already a project called eTwinning e gli Animatori Digitali, you can ask to be added as aprtner) or AE sperimentations
•Any national or international network among schools and teachers can benefit from the eTwinning platform and its services!
eTwinning for Groups
A project leads to another …
the end of your first project is only the beginning!
Christmas Cards
Webinar
Learning Event
New cross curricular project
Peer learning and peer review
Involvement of more classes and colleagues
eTwinning Groups
eTwinning as a new approach to school
eTwinning is only a toolYou add content and meaning to it, according to your and your students needs, competences, interests… it fosters discussion, sperimentations, peer learning and introduces innovation in a gradual and natural way.
www.etwinning.it
On the Italian national eTwinning website, you can be updated on:
- News about eTwinning in our conuntry, like online courses, new campaigns
- Events like on site workshops, conferences or other events connected with eTwinning
- Experiences from successful eTwinning projects
- Contact of the Italian National Support Service and of all regional eTwinning Representatives and Ambassadors
The 3 eTwinning levels www.etwinning.net
eTwinning Live! Users login to the community area
Public portal
Twinspace and GroupsAccess to projects and collaborative groups
1 Public leveleTwinning EU portal www.etwinning.neteTwinning EU portal www.etwinning.net
ConnectProjects, schools and registered teachers map
InspirationReady-to-use project kits and guided modules
Login to eTwinning LiveFor registered users: partner finding, project management…
Professional developmentInformation on eTwinning workshops, learning events and other online and on site training opportunities
RegistrationFor new eTwinners
2nd level eTwinning Live! Registered users access
Profile
Notifications e messages
Personal journal
News
Projects, groups,events
TwinSpace and Groups
• Reserved area for teachers and students (login and password)
• Administrators can choose to make contents visible only to members, or to leave them public.
• Online working tools (blog, forum, chat, videoconference)
• Multimedia archive: files, pictures gallery, videos, web links.
3rd level: Projects and Groups
Let's go Live!
Some Project and TwinSpace examples:
•Upper secondary school: Mirror Mirror… https://twinspace.etwinning.net/2658/home
•Lower secondary school: To eat or not to eat https://twinspace.etwinning.net/6065/home
•Primary school: Tasty CLIL 2.0 https://twinspace.etwinning.net/900/home
•Kindergarden: Fairy Yoga https://twinspace.etwinning.net/2114/home
•Teacher Training, peer learning: Euroteachers team up https://twinspace.etwinning.net/1284/home
Contact us!
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Unità nazionale eTwinning Italia
Richiesta di informazioni
[email protected]@indire.itAssistenza tecnica
[email protected]@indire.itPortale eTwinning www.etwinning.netwww.etwinning.netSito italiano (news, seminari, supporto e approfondimenti) www.etwinning.it
Trova l’ambasciatore eTwinning vicino a te! http://etwinning.indire.it/home.php?id_cnt=2378
