eTwinning Practice

Find a partner and work together

Central Support Service

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 The eTwinning life cycle
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Information,
Quality label ideas,
eTwinning Prizes examples,
resources

Register
your school

Progress card
Resources
Website
Desktop:
Find a partner

TwinSpace: Register
Work together Your partnership

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 Help to find your way

• Virtual Tour through the portal

• Tips, how to use ICT tools for school

collaboration

• Personal support from the helpdesk for

individual teachers and partnerships. Tutoring
will substitute the chats.

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 Why get involved?
• To cooperate with colleagues from
other European countries.

• To discover, innovate, motivate and

share.

• To get recognition for your good work.

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 Register your school
• Registrant data
• Twinning preferences
• School data
• School profile

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 Find a partner school
1. eTwinning Map:
• All registered schools and partnerships
• Partner search per country
• Click on a school‘s name to get more
information
• All data that relevant for a partner
search will appear

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 Find a partner school
2. TwinFinder
Desktop – TwinFinder:
– List of potential partner schools
– Aktions: Email, MyCandidate list
– Find a partner on your own
• New: refinded search for region and
subject
– Search the eTwinning Map

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 Partnership Registration
• Partnership description
– Description
– Aims  
– Work process
– Student productions

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Registered partnership

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 How to cooperate

» Log in
» Desktop
» TwinSpace

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 TwinSpace
Here you can meet your partner and work
together:

• Calendar
• Forum
• Mailbox
• Chat
• Bulletin board
• My team
• Settings

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 Where to find ideas
• Every month a new theme is introduced:

– Highlights: Interviews, activities, news, links.

– Ready-made project kits: Step-by-step guidelines
to projects
– Gallery: eTwinning projects
for inspiration
– Forum: Exchange of ideas
with other teachers
– Resources: Relevant learning
materials for eTwinning

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Ready Made Project/Kits

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Project Gallery (entry)

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 Project Gallery (details)
• Pedagogical values
• Use of ICT tools
• Work Process
• Student’s results
• Added value
• Lessons learnt
• Tips
• (interview)

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 Teacher’s interviews
• Project process
• Project content
• General issues

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 Get more recognition
Inspire other colleagues with your
project and get famous!
        Apply for:

• Quality label
• eTwinning Prize

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 Progress Cards

• So far: 160 entries

• Description of benefits:
– For students
– School Managers
– Whole school
• Displayed on eTwinning map
• Feedback from NSSs

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 eTwinning Prizes
Apply for the eTwinning Prizes and get recognition
and reward for your good work on European level.

Three categories:
• School collaboration
• Pedagogical innovation
• Digital resources

Two age groups:

• Pre-secondary schools
Children aged 5 to 12
• Secondary schools
Children aged 13 to 19

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