etwinning - community for schools in europe @bett
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eTwinning - Community for schools in Europe. Presented by Claus Berg, UNI-C, eTwinning NSS, Denmark. BETT 2012, London. #LearnLiveLT08 See also teacher Niels Askholm's BETT slides: http://www.slideshare.net/clausberg/etwinning-project-regional-traditional-folk-musicTRANSCRIPT
BETT 2012, London
#LearnLiveLT08
@clausberg
Stand G110
eTwinning…community for schools in Europe
Claus Berg
UNI•C
eTwinning National Support Service, [email protected]
Presentation at: slideshare.net/clausberg
Who
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Claus Berg @clausberg, Chief Consultant
•UNI-C, The Danish IT Centre for Education and Research
•Ministry of Children and Education
Niels Askholm, Teacher & international coordinator
•Selsmose School, Høje Tastrup (Copenhagen), Denmark
•eTwinning project partner: Adil Tuğyan, Rize, Turkey
What’s on
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• Introducing the eTwinning project, and how it contributes to schools' curriculum based work, with an international flavour which greatly increases pupils' motivation
• Teachers from Denmark and Turkey present their project: 'Regional Traditional Folk Songs', highlighting work with basic skills, languages, creative use of new tools pedagogically, virtual groups and web forums
• Pupils will greet the audience in a video greeting, live from Denmark and Turkey
• Stand G110
• Leaflet…
What is eTwinning?
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Community for schools in Europe
•Teachers and pupils collaborating, working and learning together
•Supports cooperation between schools in Europe
•150,000 registered teachers
•87,000 schools
•32 countries
•Part of Comenius
Teachers say (1/3)
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eTwinning Focus
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Globalized society
•Bring international qualifications into focus
•Framework for experience, immersion and initiative which contributes to the students' inclination to work with language and culture
•The focus is both on collaborative projects, multicultural dimensions, ICTs and social networking
•eTwinning also aims to further teachers' professional development with many offers free of charge
Teachers say (2/3)
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eTwinning web // 3 portals
• 1. Open eTwinning portal www.etwinning.net where everyone can browse registered schools, get an idea about specific projects, and seek inspiration. Teachers register here.
• 2. eTwinning Desktop for registered teachers. Requires login at www.etwinning.net. Here you find partners and registrer and maintain your projects.
• 3. TwinSpace new-twinspace.etwinning.net, which is created for you and your partner, when your eTwinning project has been approved by the two National Support Services (NSS).
- Or you could be invited to an already existing TwinSpace, as participant or guest.
1. The open portal www.etwinning.net
Ebbe Schultze <[email protected]>10
Registrering on etwinning.net – Step 1
Pre-registration.
Click the yellow button ”Register” and fill in…
…Then you’ll received an email with a link
Registrering on etwinning.net – Step 2
In step 2 you’lI first check if your school is already in eTwinning.If it’s not on the list, please register as a new school.
…Then you fill in the three tabs, which make you a personal profile:- About sourself, Twinning preferences, and Preview & validation.
2. eTwinning Desktop
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3. TwinSpace – Virtual workspace for your project
Including:
•Chat•Internal project email•Calendar•Invite participants, also pupils (and with tailormade user rights)•Save files•Make web pages•Discussion forum•Wiki and blog•Subscribe RSS-info•See who’s online
TwinSpace – Tools for you teachers, and your pupils
Video, images, files, blogs, wikis etc.
Teachers say (3/3)
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eTwinning-ambassador – Niels Askholm
Read more on EMU.dk: etwinning.emu.dk
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Niels Askholm’s BETT presentation about his Danish-Turkish project ”Regional Tradional Folk Songs”
•Slides (pdf): http://www.slideshare.net/clausberg/etwinning-project-regional-traditional-folk-music
•Project info: http://www.etwinning.net/da/pub/profile.cfm?f=2&l=da&n=39337