EN Presentazione eTwinning per gli Assistenti Comenius in entrata, Induction Meeting Roma novembre 2011

1. Induction meeting
Rome 21 November 2011
Alexandra Tosi
National Support Service Italy
ANSAS (ex Indire)

2. What is eTwinning?
A community
of teachers of
over 140.000
teachers
EU countries
+ Croatia,
Iceland, Norway,
Turkey,
Swizerland.

3. eTwinning Projects,
Groups, Teachers’
rooms..
eTwinning Schools

4. National Support Service
(1 in each country)
Central Support Service.
Run by the European
Schoolnet on behalf of
the European Commission

5. The heart of eTwinning is the portal: www.etwinning.net

6. eTwinning Portal – 3 layers
1. The Public Portal
• Public Information for all
• Registration
• Inspiration
• News
• Contacts
3. The TwinSpace
• Private virtual classroom for
teachers’ and pupils’ collaboration:
blog, wiki, forum, archives, photo
gallery …
2. The Desktop
• Personal profile
• Teachers get in touch,
collaborate and work together
in Learning Events, Groups,
teachers’ rooms and projects

7. 1. The public portal
www.etwinning.net
25 Languages
News and articles
Help and guidelines
Inspiration for projects (kits and modules)
Info on Professional Development
opportunities
Registration

8. Inspiration - Kits
www.etwinning.net

10. Registration
You have the right to register
Your registration will be automatically deactivated in
September
Your country in eTwinning is Italy
First check with your tutor if the school is already
registered (better if your tutor registers first)
If not you will need some info as address, telephone
number, Headmaster name, the school’s email and
gov. code etc.
When you will work in your own school, you will
change the country and add the new school

11. 2. The Desktop
So you’ve registered! What next?
And browse the portal…
Use the desktop
Get involved in learning
formal & informal
Start a project
Add contacts
Create your profile!
Join groups and
teachers’ rooms
Search the Database
Update your Diary
(portfolio)

12. Learning Events
Teachers’ Rooms
Groups

13. Quick tour:
How to register
How to edit your profile
How to search the Database
How to get in touch with other teachers
How to register a project
www.etwinning.net

14. 3. The TwinSpace
Tools for eTwinning Projects
Once you find a partner and agree on the project
activities with your tutor and your partner, you
can start an eTwinning project.
Two founders teachers from schools of different
countries (later extendable to more partners).
No subject or time limits, no deadlines, quick
approval procedure, everything is online…

15. Each eTwinning project has:
A Blog where only teachers talk about the
project step by step, share ideas and
materials with the community
A Project Card where teachers communicate
with their NSS

16. Each eTwinning project has:
A TwinSpace: a virtual class for pupils
and teachers that encourages and
facilitates collaboration,
communication, sharing, and
interaction.

17. It’s a safe and multilingual virtual workplace
with tools like mail, calendar, blog, wiki, forum,
chat and the possibility to share and publish
video, pictures and other files.

18. General suggestions for projects
proposed by Comenius Assistants

19. Always talk about your
project ideas with your tutor
and agree with them the kind
of school to contact in
eTwinning, the content of the
project, privacy issues etc.

20. Try to involve other teachers,
according to the kind of
project you will be working on
(eTwinning is not only for
foreign language teachers!)

21. If you are linked to a school in your home
country, you could put it in contact with the
Italian school you are working in and give birth to
an eTwinning project

22. Even if you are not linked
to a school in your home
country, you can still try to
find an eTwinning school
from your regional area
and create a project with it

23. You can create an eTwinning project with other
Comenius assistants working in Europe!

24. When you leave your
host school in Italy and
become a teacher in
your country, you might
want to keep in contact
through an eTwinning
project!

25. - you could either convince your
tutor to register the project, so
that when you leave the
country they won’t have to
close the project. Once the
project is approved, you can
be added to it as a third
member.
Since your stay in Italy is short termed, here
are some suggestions for your project:

26. • or work on short term
projects. Plan some
activities that can be carried
out during your stay in Italy.
Get inspiration from kits and
modules! It would still be
advisable to invite your tutor
to the project.

27. Only invited teachers, pupils and guests can take part. It is
not accessible or visible from outside, unless you decide
so. You are responsible for who you invite!
You can decide, together with your tutor, what to make
public and what to keep private! Pictures of pupils and
sensitive data should always be private!

28. More info on
www.etwinning.net
(European portal)
www.programmallp.it/etwinning
(Italian portal)

29. Caustic
• TS http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=5453632
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1DQ_MbDyB8&feature=player_embedded
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UAsJ3Es1Rw&feature=player_embedded
Asquini
School presentation auf deutsch, TS
• http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/c/portal/layout?p_l_id=12475634
password on internet
• http://www.youtube.com/user/carlaasquini?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/3/VNUiLgPmRiM
ITIS MARCONI
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL0HnNm7m70
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=HmSx_aW6CdY

30. For any kind of question related to eTwinning
please contact us at
etwinning@indire.it
or 055 2380561
Thank you!
Alexandra Tosi
a.tosi@indire.it