Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 3 Start interacting with their partners. # 4 Leave short messages on their partners’ walls. # 5 Log in regularly.
Within the TwinSpace teachers can also: # 6 Create discussions forums and invite students to use forum to start getting to know their partners better. Tell them about their school, where they live, what is important in their life and so on. # 7 Use the mail box to send, in English, important information( reminders, clarifications, deadlines, progress feedback etc.) to your students
Synchronous communication # 1 Brings real communication and meaningful activities to the learning process. It engages and motivates pupils and fosters intercultural communication skills. # 2 It provides pupils with the chance of problem solving during communication. # 3 Teachers can download the chat history and assess conversations in the foreign language class. Synchronous tools can also be used as a complementary learning / teaching component to plan / monitor / evaluate tasks and / or hold taskorientated sessions, as in the picture below.
This is a quote I am quite fond of to illustrate real COLLABORATION as much as the acronym TEAM – Together Everyone Achieves More.
To star our reflection, I will highlight the DON ' Ts of COLLABORATION: # 1 Each partner school does the same activity but on their own. Just doing the same things at each school does not make an activity collaborative. # 2 It does not turn the activity into a collaborative one if partners show each other their final products afterwards, once they’ re finished. # 3 It is not collaboration even if they decide to put their final products together and show or disseminate them as a final common product. Just doing the same things without reactions or interactions is not collaborative working- " COMMUNICATION IS AT THE HEART OF COLLABORATION ".
Collaborative tips for successful learning You should … Team up students in transnational groups: # 1 Create a shareable table with teams composed of students from different countries. # 2 Involve students in the establishment of group goals to develop interdependence / responsibility among peers.
Then, you can start by promoting TEAM BUILDING activities( Ice breaking activities) where students get to know each other and learn to work together and support each other.
2 nd C – Collaboration
A good way to ensure the group learns together is to engage in a pre- and post-test. In fact, many researchers use this method to see if groups are learning. An assessment gives the team a goal to work towards and ensures learning is a priority: # 1 Provides students with information before
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