eTwinning Contact Seminar, Bratislava

project between Malta and Slovakia November – June Children 7-9 years old National quality label National prize winner European quality label

Select the topic with your pupils - interest, motivation

Set the goal

Find your partners

http://www.etwinning.net

Communicate about the goal, tasks and content with your partners (e-mail, Skype, google docs )

Plan and write the project - think of the number of activities and schedule (not stressful)

Project

Decide about the tools

e-mail, PowerPoint, Voki, Slideshare, Picassa, Google, Windows media player, Youtube, Twinspace, Blogspot, Mixbook,

wikispaces

Project learning - integrate the project to your curriculum

(Slovak language, English, Math, Informatics, Geography, Natural Science, Arts and crafts, Music lessons, Ethics)

Cooperate with other teachers at school (support of headmaster )

Let children learn from and with each other

Not just sharing materials with your partners, collaborative activities are important

writing our story, making illustrations, making comparison, graphs, creating problems, quizzes, riddles, crosswords,...

Calendar of activities – set the deadlines for all activities - Twin Space Calendar

Trust, responsibility, reliability

Let children do as much as possible

Model: question (problem) - gathering materials, information, research - analyzing – conclusions –

presentations Working in groups – sharing tasks (children have

a chance to show their potential, to realize themselves

Important – let them think, discover, cooperate, help each other

During the project regular evaluation – progress, achievements,

problems – all children presenting partial results at school, for

parents

After finishing the project presentation of final products, results publishing on web sites, media Twinspace, blog, wiki

They didn´t have to learn, but they learned with joy and happiness

They investigated, created, cooperated, helped each other

They were proud to see the results of their work, they raised their self-confidence

Children are looking forward to school They love English They learn parents how to use ICT tools They are creative team, eager to create new

projects

Thank you