The NEW TwinSpaceChristina Crawley and Santi Scimeca

eTwinning Central Support Service

European Schoolnet

Annual eTwinning Conference - 6 February 2010

Seville, Spain

Today’s session:

1. Introducing the eTwinning TwinSpace

2. Going through the various tools

3. Giving you a chance to use the TwinSpace through a number of tasks

What does the new TwinSpace offer?

- A new design- More social networking - More tools - More roles

- More personalised

It’s still a place for eTwinning projects to run their activities, but with…

Most importantly…

The new TwinSpace is where teachers and pupils work together

Encouraging teachers to:- Actively involve pupils- Organise activities and let their pupils organise activities as well!

Getting started: the Homepage

Members: who’s who?

Activities: what has everyone been doing?

Mailbox: each member has their own

Calendar: what’s planned?

Activities: the main areas of your work

Blog: The summary of your project

– Entry point• Homepage – what’s the latest?

– Where things happen• Activities – main workspace• Staff Room - planning• Pupils Corner – hang out

– Chatting, discussing• Chat – discussions in real time

The main sections…

Starting to plan: Staff Room

Where partners get to know the TwinSpace and each other…

- Begin project planning

- Discuss how pupils will be involved (roles)

- Share ideas, documents, resources, etc.

- Get help, inspiration, resources…

Who has initial access to the TwinSpace?

Founding partners (as teacher administrators)

Additional partners – added via the Desktop (as teacher members)

. : no need to add twice (via Desktop and TwinSpace)

Having others join: Invitations

To invite pupils (as well as other people), teachers use the invitation button on the homepage of the TwinSpace

Also in… Invitations

Roles scheme: – Teacher Administrator:

full project partners– Teacher Member:

support teachers– Pupil Administrator:

project coordinators – Pupil Member:

participants– Visitor: guests (to private

TwinSpaces)

Invitations: email?

Visitor/teacher invitation(email required)

Pupil invitation(no email required)

Language

What language does the TwinSpace appear in?– Language of the user’s browser

How to change it?

Working together: Activities

– The bulk area for project work– Administrators (teachers and pupils)

can create as many activities pages as they wish (as one could with folders), and choose which tools are used

How to create Activities

Go to the Activities label to create an Activities page- it is up to you how to organise- organised chronologically

Name the new page and then add- you can here choose to make an activity ‘public’ or ‘private’

Add applications or “tools” to your activities page. You can add one to many – it is up to you!

What “applications” are available?

Blogs

Forums (MB)

Wikis

File Archive (DL)

Photos (IL)

Content (WCD)

On the side: Pupils Corner

- To encourage pupils to get to know each other, on their own, in their own way.

- Teachers members have viewing rights.- Teacher admins can delete.

In real time: Chat

- No change…

Testing the TwinSpacehttp://new-twinspace.etwinning.net

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Tasks1. Get access (login as pupil or get someone to invite you)

2. Change the language of the TwinSpace

3. Invite a teacher, create a pupil profile

4. Create an activities page

5. Add applications

6. Create posts: forum, blog, wiki, etc.

7. Web Content Display: write text, embed a YouTube video, add photos

8. Create a calendar event

9. Send an email

10.Publish/unpublish11.Ask a question in the CHAT area.