Workshop

13. - 16. October 2010 – Malta

ECO-Schools & eTwinning

Ebbe SchultzeChief AdvicereTwnning National Support Service, Danmark (NSS) UNI•C eb@uni-c.dk

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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