Share your learning resources
Lemill is a community for finding, authoring and sharing free and open learning resources. It`s like Wikipedia for educational resources.
Teachers can create and share content - such as webpages, presentations, exercises and video - methods, tools and join the online community. LeMill offers a built-in tool to generate different kinds of exercises.
The website is user-friendly. Feedback from teachers is allways welcome. Lemill is very popular in Estonia - where it was developed - and also in its neighbouring countries and it is slowly spreading over Europe. It is available in 10 languages.
The presentation of Lemill is available on slideshare
The MELT-portal is also an environment for sharing educational resources. It is a database with learning objects from all over Europe.
The users can add comment for each learning resource (website, presentation,…) and you can easily search for materials in your own language.
Robert Conings is an webapplication teacher in a vocational school in Maasmechelen, a village in the east of Belgium. He is one of the Belgian teachers that participates in the MELT-project.
What do you think about the MELT-project?
Robert: “ The success of this project depends on the willingness of teachers to share their work with colleagues all around Europe. The MELT project stimulates teachers to share their learning materials.”
Why should teachers share their work on the MELT-website?
Robert: "Why not share a good idea with fellow teachers and pick up new ideas in reverse? Teachers improve their teaching by learning from each other."
How many teachers are working with MELT?
Robert: "We are now just starting with the portal, so I would like to invite all teachers in Europe to join us!"
Social bookmarking is also a helpfull tool for sharing your resources with other teachers in Europe. In stead of just bookmarking your favourite websites in your browser and save them to your own desktop you can save them online and share them on websites like deli.cio.us. The advantage of social bookmarking is that you can tag your sites with more than one key word and you can search for other websites with the same tag. Your bookmarks can be interesting for other teachers.
All teachers can benefit from sharing and collaborative authoring learning resources. eTwinning is about learning from each other, so projects like Lemill, MELT and social bookmarking are a logical next step for eTwinners.
Posted by: Bart Verswijvel – teacher in Immaculata Instituut Oostmalle Belgium
Robert Conings – teacher in PTS Maasmechelen Belgium
Sara Gilissen – NSS eTwinning Department of Education Flemish Community Belgium