An Introduction to eTwinning

PDW Budapest 27th to 29th September 2012

Michael O’Donnabhain – Web Editor and Networking Officer

eTwinning Central Support Service

Nice to meet you !

Michael O’Donnabhain

National Support Service (NSS)UK (2007-2012)

English Language teacher (1999-2007) Slovakia, France, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Russia

eTwinning Central Support Service (Brussels) June 2012

What is eTwinning?

A Lifelong Learning Programme initiative- within the Comenius action

Launched January 2005

2005-2008 Phase 1

2008-2013 Phase 2

What happened in 2005 or….

The Internet context

Web 1.0 v Web 2.0

Designed to find partners; create, manage and run school projects

Launched to encourage school collaboration in Europe

eTwinning 1.0 (2005)

Within two years………..

February 2004

January 2005

February 2005

October 2006February 2004.

20062005/06

April 2006

Web 2.0: Interactive & creative internet

Provided us with the possibility to:

- interact- publish - create - comment - communicate

Informal collaboration

Comenius Partnerships

Peer learning

Sharing of resources & ideas

Community building

eTwinning Projects

Time for eTwinning 2.0

Critical Mass

Communications and networking beyond Projects

Sharing and exchanging

Between 2005/08 eTwinning had also evolved

eTwinning in numbers

First 7 years of eTwinning• 34 countries participate• 173,000+ registered teachers• 23,000+ projects• More than 2 million visitors• Since September 2011

eTwinning continues to adapt

September 2012

A new look for

www.etwinning.net

eTwinning continues to adapt

September 2012

A new look for

the TwinSpace

eTwinning continues to expand

Ukraine

Moldova

Georgia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Tunisia

Our European Cultural Heritage

Nemzeti Színház

Hungarian

National Theatre

„a nemzet csalogánya”

“Nightingale of the Nation” Lujza Blaha (1850-1926)

Enjoy the workshops

My contact email

michael.odonnabhain@eun.org

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