Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Networking with eTwinning
by Niels Askholm
Both students and teachers have great chances to
develop their skills via eTwinning.
At CCEMS – Annual teachers meeting
http://www.slideshare.net/ariedam/etwinning-umpasso-para-o-sucesso-das-lnguas - sharing
practice.
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Everybody on eTwinning knows this, and hopefully
all manage their efforts. To bring eTwinning directly
on the school curriculum - to get regular lessons in
eTwinning every week - we have created unique
opportunities to be in more projects. The way we
have done it at Selsmoseskolen in Denmark the last
year was to have lessons in eTwinnig every
Wednesday from 12.30 until 14.00. The classes
were workshop hours, that means that different
students could join during the year. Therefore we
did have the chance to join more projects that
schools normally do - and often at the same time.
One teacher, 15 computer and 15 – 30 students
working on different projects at the same time on
projects of interest for each student.
One workshop was chatting with students from
other schools on TwinSpace. It started as a
Comenius project with 5 countries, but it ended
with chat between 7 countries, as we succeded to
have 2 more “sleeping partners" in the project. Two
schools who found our project interesting - but did
not receive funds.
Some students - who do not speak and write
English - joined in other projects, for the great fun
and for getting a feeling of being in something
great, for shorter or longer periods.
As an eTwinning Ambassador, I receive many
inquiries from Danish and foreign teachers about
many issues. One inquiry came from a school in
Ankara, who wanted a Danish partner school. Not
for a regular eTwinning project, but a project where
the students could visit each other. I managed to
find a Danish school in northern part of Jylland - far
away from where I live. In March last year 13
students and 4 teachers from Turkey came to
Denmark, and this year in March the Danes visited
Ankara. It was a project financed by the parents
(the transportation, pocket money etc.) but the
students and the teachers stayed privately without
any cost for the visitors. Many parents have
become friends in both countries, and are planning
to make private visits in Turkey and in Denmark.
Through eTwinning networking - either on
etwinning.net or on one of the many social media,
such as
Facebook or Twitter - teachers have a great change
to know other teachers from other countries via
projects or just via the search function on
eTwinning desktop. I have just received an accept
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