The eTwinning Portal

Christina Crawley

eTwinning Central Support Service

European Schoolnet

Professional Development Workshop – 8 April 2010

Tomar, Portugal

What is the eTwinning Portal?

The central area for eTwinning activities

to take place

– www.etwinning.net

A platform for information, networking

and collaboration

– Public Portal, Desktop, TwinSpace

– Learning Lab, Groups

All information available in 23 languages

The eTwinning Portal

eTwinning tools

online

communication tools

•Internal messaging

•Contacts

•Guestbooks

eTwinning 2.0

•Forums

•Teachers, Schools and

Projects Profiles

•Walls and „MeToos‟

Enhanced

communication tools

Networking and

Social networking

eTwinning tools

Enhanced

communication tools

Networking and

Social networking

User generated

content

(Project Diary)

eTwinning tools

Enhanced

communication tools

Networking and

Social networking

User generated

content (TwinBlogs)

Tagging and Maps

eTwinning tools

Tagging and Maps

School/Project search

In other words…

eTwinners (registered users) have access to:

•Partner-finding tools

•An environment to share

ideas

•A platform to access and

contribute to educational

resources

•And much more…

How to get started?

Register at:

www.etwinning.net

Create your profile

Get in touch with

others

Start an activity

(Project, Learning

Event, Group, etc.)

Involving pupils: eTwinning Projects

eTwinning TwinSpace

Virtual classrooms

where eTwinning

projects run their

activities

•As a staffroom

•As a classroom

•As a portfolio

•As a showroom

Everyone has a role…

Roles scheme:

– Teacher Administrator:

full project partners

– Teacher Member: support

teachers

– Pupil Administrator:

project coordinators

– Pupil Member:

participants

– Visitor: guests (to private

TwinSpaces)

1. A set of collaboration tools for pupils and teachers

�What does the TwinSpace offer?

Blogs

Forums

Wikis

File archives

Photo galleries

Web pages

2. Areas for planning and discussing

Staff room

Pupils‟ Corner

Chat

3. Possibility for sharing and publishing results

Published TwinSpace with project URL

Beyond projects…

-The Portal also offers additional

opportunities to gain inspiration and

exchange ideas

- Resource exchange

- LRE resource widget

- Learning Events

- Groups (soon)

Resource exchange

LRE Widget

Learning Resource

Exchange (LRE)

Access resources

from ministries and

research centres

across Europe

In “My Profile”

Learning Events

Register via your Desktop

eTwinning Groups (coming soon)

eTwinning Portal: Promoting Shifting Worlds

Formal

Closed

Top down

Teaching

Consumption

Curriculum driven

Informal

Open����

Bottom up

Learning

Creation

Life as curriculum

Get started today – you won’t regret it!

Thank you

christina.crawley@eun.org