eTwinning: examples of good practice

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Teresa Lacerda
Agrupamento de Escolas de Póvoa de Lanhoso
eTwinning Ambassador in North of Portugal Minho University| 09.April.2015
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ETWINNING: EXAMPLES
OF GOOD PRACTICE
PRESENTATION OF PROJECTS AND
DISCUSSION OF IDEAS

Who I am?
I’m Biology and Geology
teacher since 1987/88
I’m working in ICT projects
since 1988/89
I’m registered in eTwinning
since 26.05.2005
I’m working in European
projects since 2000/2001I didn’t learn English when I
was a student.
I learned only French…
So, my English is “eTwinning
English”
My school
Link [HERE]

Do you have mobile devices?

ARE YOU READY? OK. I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU…

First challenge…
PollEv.com/teresalacerd727

AND NOW… AND ONLY NOW, LET’S START WITH THE PRESENTATION!

In this presentation…
… eTwinning - a quick overview
… Internet & eTwinning
... 21st Century Literacy & eTwinning
… project eTwinning examples
… Questions (?????)

eTwinning is…
An initiative of the European Commission to give
an opportunity to as many EU children as possible
to communicate with other children in other EU
countries using Information and Communication
Technologies at school.
2008 – 2013 2014 - 2020
Lifelong
Learning
eLearning ERASMUS
Plus
2005 – 2008
© Anne Gilleran, 2009

eTwinning in the Europe

How many countries are in eTwinning?

How many countries are in eTwinning?
ALBANIA
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
BULGARIA
CROATIA
CZECH REPUBLIC
CYPRUS
DENMARK
ESTONIA
FINLAND
FRANCE
FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
GERMANY
GREECE
HUNGARY
ICELAND
IRELAND
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
NORWAY
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SERBIA
SLOVAKIA
SLOVENIA
SPAIN
SWEDEN
TURKEY
UNITED KINGDOM

Who can participate?
All students and Staff by…
• Kindergarten to the end the high school.
Staff from public and private schools:
• Teachers
• Head teachers
• Careers Guidance
• ICT coordinator
• Librarian
• Pedagogical Adviser
• School Psychologist
• Comenius Assistant

Official definition…
eTwinning:
• Promotes school collaboration in Europe through
the use of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT).
• It provides support, ideas and tools to make it easy
for schools to set up partnerships and start
collaborative projects in any subject area.

In eTwinning Portal  www.etwinning.net
www.etwinning.net

In eTwinning Portal  www.etwinning.net
www.etwinning.net
27 languages

Registo no portal eTwinning
WWW.ETWINNING.NET
Link in email to validate your register
Form to fill with some professional and school information
email

Congratulations!
You are an eTwinner!
Important notice:
It’s free!

eTwinning have a…
… public area
… personal area (desktop)
…collaborative area (Twinspace)

eTwinning Desktop

Found eTwinners

PLANNING THE PROJECT… SOME IMPORTANT IDEAS

eTwinning… Start with a…

Don’t forget… In eTwinning we need to be…

Re-examine the sentence…
eTwinning provides support, ideas and tools to make it
easy for schools to set up partnerships and start
collaborative projects in any subject area.
That teachers will work collaboratively
through project work.
So,

Plan collaborative projects…
… thinking about activities…
to students learn and collaborate.
to teachers learn and collaborate.
with curricular subjects.

Plan collaborative projects with helper tools on Internet
IN THE PAST… We use Internet in a passive way to:
- Read the news
- Retrieve information
- Essentially an online encyclopedia
TODAY… We can use Internet in a new way (web 2.0 Tools)
- Publish ideas
- Create archives
- Comment on events
- Communicate
- Collaborate
- Learn together

Planning in collaboration…
Informação in TwinSpace >>>>

Create a project…

Wait a little bit for approval…
Approval…
– of your partner project
– of both NSS (yours and your
partner’s)

TwinSpace

5ºPASSOETWINNING
Twinspace: space to share and collaborate

To develop an eTwinning project we need…
Before
PLAN
During
COLABORATE &
SHARE
After
REFLECT,
EVALUATE &
DISSIMINATE
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Different pedagogical approach
Inquiry
based
learning
Project
based
learning
Intercultural
dialogue
Collaborative
work
Use of ICT in
classroom
Safe
environment
Innovation Recognition
Teacher is
autonomous
Teacher is
never alone © Rita Zurrapa

Recognition… Awards…
eTwinning Quality Labels are granted to
teachers with excellent eTwinning projects.
They indicate that the project has reached a
certain national and European standard.
The European eTwinning Prize
The main category is sponsored by the
European Commission and has three levels as
follows.
The three prizes are for projects involving:
1. Pupils age 4-11
2. Pupils age 12-15
3. Pupils age 16-19
In addition to the main eTwinning Prize
category there are also a number of special
categories sponsored by other organisations.
Quality Label
National & European

Recognition… Awards… in PORTUGAL
National Quality Labels
The National eTwinning Prize
Quality Label
National

Professional Development Opportunities
• NSS
• Ambassadors
• eTwinning
Projects
• European PDW
and other
Seminars
• Groups
• Teachers
Rooms
• Learning Events
• Webinars
Online
training
Online
Professional
Development
Peer Learning
Face to face
training
© Rita Zurrapa

AND NOW… ETWINNING FOR ME IS…

And now…
1ºPASSOETWINNING

21ST CENTURY LITERACY & ETWINNING

21st Century literacy & eTwinning

The magic of Christmas
UMKISSETWINNING
Poland, Romania, Spain, & Portugal
TwinSpace>>>>>>>>>>
Poland

Act-in-Art
UMKISSETWINNING

Connecting Classrooms…
CONNECTINGCLASSROOMS
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Connecting Classrooms… Check all the people…
José Soares & Rui Rodrigues
Agrupamento de Escolas de Póvoa de Lanhoso
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O papel da Biblioteca…
Trabalho colaborativo
Publicações produzidas em colaboração
http://issuu.com/enacc/docs

For students, Connecting Classrooms was…

WaterMark
TwinSpace:
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p89916
Duration – 2 school years; 5 countries
Students – 3 to 18 years old from normal
curricular studies and professional studies
Subjects – Biology, Sport, Health, Tourism and
Audiovisual
Activities – always developed in the curricular
context
TwinSpace – used as a means of
communication for the students and a place
for sharing, store and save all the documents
produced
Products – videos, slidshare presentations,
eBooks using Issuu, PPT presentations, ….
Link to presentation

Vamos avaliar…
https://kahoot.it/

WaterMark and ICT
http://issuu.com/comenius.watermark

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Teresa Lacerda – teresalacerda@hotmail.com
Any questions?
Thanks for sharing ideas and materials:
Anne Gilleran
Rita Zurrapa
Isabel Monteiro

After the presentation 
Teresa Lacerda – teresalacerda@hotmail.com
http://padlet.com/teresalacerda/UM

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