Presentation made to the eTwinning Seminar for Teacher Training Institutes - Manchester May 2014

1. Introducing eTwinning – Teacher
and student collaboration in Europe
Anne Gilleran
Central Support Service, Brussels
eTwinning Seminar for Primary
Teacher Training Institutes May
22 – 24 2014, Manchester

2. What is eTwinning?

3. A Lifelong Learning
Programme initiative
- within Comenius up to
2013
Launched January 2005
Now a transversal
action in Erasmus+
until 2020
eTwinning started as……

4. 33 countries participate
Each of those countries has a National
Support Service (NSS)
Overall coordination by the Central Support
Service (CSS) Run by European Schoolnet on
behalf of the EU Commission
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Key Facts about eTwinning

5. 5 main elements
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eTwinning has ….
• It is an informal social network
• It supports online collaborative work
• It provides continuing professional development
• It incorporates inbuilt recognition for work done
• It is the most supportive action for teachers and schools

6. All this happens on the
Portal:
www.etwinning.net
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7. 1.Public – www.etwinning.net
2.When you register – eTwinning Desktop
3.If you register a project - TwinSpace
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Portal has 3 Levels

8. Informal Social Network

9. News from the
eTwinning world
Notifications
regarding your
eTwinning activity
Information about
upcoming events
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10. Personal content
Contacts & projects
Journal
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Personal profile

11. 11
Partner finding tools
Quick search
Advanced search
Forum announcement

12. Online Collaboration
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13. TwinSpace
Teachers
Pupils
•Chat
•Image Gallery
•Document folders
•Publishing tools
•Blog
•Live Communication
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A safe closed environment where you have total control

14. Continuing Professional Development…
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15. eTwinning Groups
15 Groups now active
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16. Learning Events
20 Learning events in 2013
Approx. 2,500 teachers
involved
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Communication in eTwinning
eTwinning & the Creative Classroom
Using Google Earth in Teaching
Education of the future
Using mobile devices in teaching
Video Conference as a teaching tool
Art, history and philosophy for eTwinning projects
Using iPads in the class
Quality Label Criteria – How to achieve them
Effective use of Social Media in teaching
Planning a project
http:learninglab.etwinning.net

17. Other Professional Development activities
eTwinning Annual Conference
– 500+ teachers
European Seminars
– More than 50 in 2013 ( 1000+ teachers)
FCL workshops for eTwinning
Webinars….etc. etc. etc.
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18. Built in recognition

19. National and European eTwinning prizes
National Quality Label
European Quality Label

20. Supportive Action

21. Central Support Service
National Support Service
eTwinning Ambassador network

22. Is eTwinning successful?
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23. 25,000+ users/day
121,951 schools
6,833 active projects
250,000+ users
eTwinning (May 2014)
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26. Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Moldova
Ukraine
Tunisia
In 2012…eTwinning expanded towards

27. eTwinningPlus

28. eTwinning……
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29. In September 2014………..
eTwinning
– will begin to promote project work between
schools from the same country!

30. eTwinning is not only about technology….
eTwinning is about:
Shared professional development
Support for educational ideas
Exploring educational ideas together
Teachers professional network

31. eTwinning is about…….
EDUCATION
– Exploring pedagogical methodologies such
as project based and inquiry based learning

32. eTwinning is about….
Learning
– Intercultural learning
– Authentic learning
– Contextual learning
– Personal learning

33. eTwinning is about………
Skills and competency development
– Team working
– Researching
– Choosing
– Analysing
– Creating

34. A video example: The Rainbow Village
Watch on YouTube

35. More video examples
http://prizes2014.etwinning.net/videos/

36. How do you get involved?
Register on www.eTwinning.net

37. Any Questions?

38. www.europeanschoolnet.org
www.etwinning.net
Contact: anne.gilleran@eun.org
THANK YOU
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