Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------In support of KA1 (staff mobility for teachers,
trainers and school leaders), members can use
eTwinning to get in touch with other eTwinners to
find information about Learning mobilities before
applying for them. It is possible to join the
community from the eTwinning Desktop within
the Teachers rooms and Groups. Here members
can discuss, share ideas and materials but also talk
about training experiences. These are the two most
suitable platforms where you can acquire
information on interesting in-service training
courses or job-shadowing experiences. They involve
lots of eTwinners with different competences and
training practices who can support colleagues who
are looking for suitable courses or want to spend a
period abroad in a partner school. Personally, I
think that eTwinners can find all these kind of
information attending Learning Events too. During
these online courses different topics are exploited
and participants are actively involved in
discussions, reflections and personal works.
According to the topic, sometimes well qualified
colleagues give proper tips about training courses
or specific school activities.
In the past years, it happened that partners used to
exploit eTwinning platform while developing
Comenius projects because of the TwinSpace and
the available kits useful to support a successful
plan. In Erasmus+ programme eTwinning is
recommended to facilitate and sustain partnership
among schools planned for KA2. It can support
partners through three main steps: before, during
and after the partnership.
Firstly, it is possible to look for partners throughout
two ways: Find eTwinners, that allows to contact
eTwinners according to specific categories (role,
country, subjects etc.), or Erasmus+ forum page
that permits to find partners selecting the involved
pupils’ age. The Mailbox can be useful to start
communicating with the involved colleagues. In this
way it is possible to know each other and share
information such as the local context, the school
organisation, the pupils etc. in order to set up a
well-organized multilateral project.
Secondly, before and during the project
development, the involved teams can exploit the
following chances by using Learning Events or
Webinars. So that they can be trained on themes
linked to the topic of their own partnership and at
the same time take part in discussions, interact and
work with other colleagues. It would be really
interesting to join together teachers’ Professional
events development and the KA2 project progress
in order to put into practice the suggested
strategies, activities and devices.
For the duration of the partnership, the TwinSpace
is the online workspace where it is possible to
upload materials using different applications like file
archive, image gallery, wiki or web contents. All the
activities can be managed through buttons that
allow tocreate, reorder, publish but also delete the
uploaded materials. This workspace permits to
observe and monitor the project progress
constantly while the blog, the forum, the mailbox
and also the chat allow partners to keep in touch
frequently.
The dissemination is also a significant step to
complete a strategic European partnership
successfully. Members can decide to make visible
all the uploaded material or part of them to
everybody in the web just adding the application
Web content display during or after finishing it.
Another chance to publish the closed project is also
to take part in Teachers rooms, Webinars, etc. or in
local o national Erasmus+ and eTwinning
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