eTwinning contact seminar2nd – 4th June, 2011

Tatjana Gulič: tatjanagulic@gmail.comDejan Kramžar: kramzar@gmail.com

Discovering TwinSpace and the eTwinning Desktop

Brief introduction to the eTwinning Portal and its three levels

Introduction of the new eTwinning Desktop

Introduction to the TwinSpace

Practical exercises and opportunity for questions

What is the eTwinning Portal?

The central area for eTwinning activities to take place– www.etwinning.net (http://desktop.etwinning.net/)

A platform for information, networking and collaboration

Public Portal, Desktop, TwinSpace – Learning Lab, Groups

All information available in 23 languages

Public Portal

Private desktop

In other words…eTwinners (registered users) have access to:

•Networking tools•An environment to share ideas•A platform to access and contribute to educational resources•Tools to collaborate•And much more…

TwinSpace – secure place, public as members want to

set language

www.etwinning.net

REGISTER

LOGIN

GETSTARTED!

News from CSS

News from NSS

Project description•Title

•Short description

•Communication language(s)

•What is the age range of the pupils to be involved in the project?

•How many pupils altogether are going to participate in the project?

•Subject areas

•Tools to be used

•Aims

•Work process

•Expected results

•Is your project based on an eTwinning Project Kit?

Beyond projects…

-The Portal also offers additional professional development opportunities to gain inspiration and exchange ideas

- Learning Events (webinars)- eTwinning Groups

Learning Events Register via your Desktop

eTwinning GroupsRegister via your Desktop

TwinSpace – secure place, public as members want to

1. A set of collaboration tools for pupils and teachers

What does the TwinSpace offer?

Blogs

Forums

Wikis

File archives

Photo galleries

Web pages

2. Areas for planning and discussing

Staff room

Pupils’ Corner

Chat

3. Possibility for sharing and publishing results

Published TwinSpace with project URL

Try the Desktop out…

Partner finding:– search for contacts– search for your neighbour– add a contact– accept a contact

Profiles:– Update your ‘Quick Profile’ (in

the new Desktop: ‘About Me’)

– Ready for a Comenius School partnership?

– Add a photo to your Profile– Add photos to your gallery -

personal and school profile– Write on a ‘wall’ (in the new

Desktop: reply to someone's ‘journal’ posting)

Project - start the registration process?

You need to Login

Quick access to other project TwinSpaces

click

Quick jump between projects

TwinSpace look

Add activities: only with administrative rights

To add new activities

first click on Project Activities

than Add Application

For new Activities (sections) in TwinSpace

Write down the name of new page

To Publish or Hide

or delete

Applications are

Cooperative applications– Blog– Forums– Wiki

Applications to organize files, photos,…– File archive– Picture gallery– Web page

Applications

Staff room – only for the teachers, pupils can’t see it

Pupils can have Forums, File archives, Galleries, web pages, wikis

Chat, on-line one by one in private rooms or all together

When we Login, we can see last logins and last changes…

Project diary…

Settings…

Left mouse click Copy Link Lication

How to put video in Blog

For flash video…

Paste url here

eTwinning tools

Enhanced communication tools

Networking and Social networking

User generated content (Project Diary)

Tagging and Maps

Involving pupils: eTwinning Projects

eTwinning TwinSpace

Virtual classrooms where eTwinning projects run their activities

•As a staffroom•As a classroom•As a portfolio•As a showroom•User generated content (Project Diary)

User generated content (Project Diary)

Everyone has a role…

Roles scheme: – Teacher Administrator:

full project partners– Teacher Member: support

teachers– Pupil Administrator:

project coordinators – Pupil Member:

participants– Visitor: guests (to private

TwinSpaces)

Thank you!