eTwinning Conference 2008

Conference Report and Photos

2008-05-16T10:52:14Z

The conference report gives detailed information on all the sessions and activities throughout the event as well as their results. Whether you attended the conference or not, the report is a good resource for finding out what’s new in eTwinning and how teachers are using the Action to enrich their school work.

The official photographers’ photos are now in as well. Enjoy!

* Read the REPORT (6MB)
* Browse the PHOTOS
* Introductory speech by Marc Durando, European Schoolnet (Windows Media File, Flash file, movie file)
* Address by Jan Figel', Member of the European Commission in charge of education, training, culture and youth (Windows Media File, Flash file, movie file)
* Address by Doris Pack, MEP (Windows Media File, Flash file, movie file)

Face to Face in Bucharest

2008-03-26T23:13:27Z

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]]> The Annual Conference gave us the opportunity to meet face to face.
We have been working together as eTwinning partners for three years now.
Pity only that we did not meet all the other partners of our project, both Teachers and Student representatives. it would have been a great opportunity to agree on a closer interaction.Perhaps another time.
Here we are next to the Minister of Education of Romania and to Comissioner Figel ,when the medallion from the AcrossTheBible Portuguese School was handed in to the Romanian Minister of Education. The cooperation of the schools of the countries involved ( also Germany, Poland, Greece, Estonia, Slovakia,Finland...) has been central to reach the present results.
The exhibitions gave us plenty of information and also ideas to be implemented in other situations, in other projects.
The visit to the stands might be opened to people that are not acquainted with etwinning yet - for instance,Teachers and Students of the host country might have been invited to visit the stands. they might be interested in joining some of the existing projects or carry out new ones

Portugal ( Teresa Fernandes ) and Romania ( Dorina Marin ) eTwinning with ATB-AcrossTheBible across Europe

Happy Passover, Happy Easter to you all!

2008-03-23T01:41:40Z

from ATB-AcrossTheBible across Europe
http://acrossthebibleportugal.blogspot.com/
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]]> The exhibitions gave us plenty of information and also ideas to be implemented in other situations, other projects.
They might be opened to people that are not acquainted with etwinning, for instance,Teachers and Students of the host country might be invited to visit the stands. they would probably be interested in joining some of the projects or carry out new ones.

Intercultural Learning Opportunities

2008-03-20T15:38:28Z

Presentation by Petru Dumitru during first workshop session.

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Suggestions for the future portal, desktop, twinspace ...

2008-03-20T15:03:23Z

The new outlook was considered much better. Lots of suggestions were given, carefully considered by all and noted by Santi Scimeca. In September the new portal, desktops and Twinspaces will be available.Eye friendliness, careful guidelines for easy , simple uploading of various types of files, also an index with the titles of the different files inside the files is necessary, so that users may know where to find what they want . These and other matters will be given extra attention. Next to the name of a headmaster who is a man, will not appear the picture of a lady. Also a photo for each school and some info on the project coordinator will be included. A useful workshop where feedback was taken very seriously.
Teresa Fernandes, eTwinning embassador, Escola Secundária D. Dinis, Lisboa, Portugal

Fizika - svarbi ir jdomi: Science and Maths Category Winner

2008-03-20T14:12:38Z

Presentation from Fizika - svarbi ir įdomi. Physics is interesting and important project coordinators.

Kudinov Kaunas, Kauno Statybininkų Rengimo Centras, LITHUANIA
Elżbieta Gawron, Publiczne Gimnazjum im. Jana Pawła II wTyczynie, POLAND

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Wooden Dolls Project: Age Category 4-10 Winner

2008-03-20T09:49:00Z

Presentation by The new Europeans: The two wooden dolls project coordinators.

Birgitta Flodén, Hässelbygårdsskolan, SWEDEN
Christiane Meisenburg, Siegerland-Grundschule, GERMANY

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eTwinning: A Future Perspective

2008-03-20T09:45:00Z

Presentation by Eugenio Rivière, European Commission.

To view the presentation with animation, click here.

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Closing address: Marc Durando

2008-03-18T15:44:43Z

Sunday morning's closing address by Marc Durando, EUN Executive Director.

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Kids H@nd in H@nd: Age 4-10 Category Runner-up

2008-03-18T15:10:53Z

Two presentations by Kids H@nd in H@nd project coordinators.

Lieven Van Parys, Primary school Sint-Amandus, Belgium
Viljenka Savli, Osnovna Sola Solkan, Slovenia
Tiiu Leibur, Pärnu Koidula Gymnasium, Estonia
Alexandra Pilková, ZŠ A. Stodolu, Martin, Slovakia
Margit Horváth, Kalocsai Belvárosi-Dunaszentbenedeki �?ltalános Iskola és Óvoda, Hungary
Mela Rodríguez, CEIP Vidal Portela, Spain
Belen Junquera, CEIP Sestelo-Baión, Spain
Erika Raffai, Jerney János, Hungary

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Planete @dos: Age 16-19 category Winner

2008-03-18T15:04:00Z

Presentation by Planete @dos project coordinators.

Ria de Wilde, Sint-Janscollege, BELGIUM
Marina Marino, Liceo Scientifico "F. Cecioni", ITALY
Brigitte Vaudoric, Lycée Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, FRANCE

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Your eTwinning: Workshop on the Platform

2008-03-17T22:02:25Z

This workshop set out to get feedback from teachers about the current eTwinning Platform as well as to show and discuss elements that are already planned for the future. The participants gave us a lot of great feedback based on the tools that they use, that they find difficult and what they would like to see in the future.

In the first half of the session, Christina Crawley discussed the current platform all its areas - (1) Public Platform, (2) Private individual Desktop and (3) Project TwinSpace - and participants worked in 3 separate groups on questions about specific areas of the platform.

In the second half of the session, Santi Scimeca discussed some of the work that is planned for the next launch of the eTwinning Platform in September 2008. Participants then gave feedback on the ideas as well as on web 2.0 tools such as social networking and widgets.

Photo taken by Filip Toupalik, Czech Republic

Have a look at the presentation:

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Posted by Christina Crawley, eTwinning CSS

Your eTwinning: Workshop on Pedagogy

2008-03-17T21:58:22Z

In this workshop we set out to look at the various Pedagogical aspects of eTwinning. These include both the Pedagogical resources on the Portal as well as activities such as Professional Development Workshops (PDWS), the eTwinning Prizes, and the quality labels at both National and European level. We also looked at the eTwinning book and general pedagogical resources.

About 65 people attended the workshop and were divided into groups. I started by giving a quick overview of the various Pedagogical aspects of eTwinning in the form of a PowerPoint. Then I gave each group 6 questions to discuss.

Questions

1. What do you think would be a suitable alternative to the eTwinning Camp?

2. What pedagogical resources would you like to see on the Portal?

3. What features would you like to see in an eTwinning community?

4. What type of eTwinning book would be useful to you?

5. What should be the focus for Professional Development Workshops?

6. What would you like to have in a ready made project kit?

You can see the results of the discussion on the PowerPoint:

Anne Gilleran

Your eTwinning: workshop on communications

2008-03-17T12:37:25Z

I organised a workshop on Communications issues in eTwinning and was pleased to have good attendance by teachers from Romania, Ireland, Spain, Finland, Flemish Belgium and others, as well as representatives from the UK and French NSS.

They split into groups and discussed:
- links between eTwinning and Comenius
- how to reach out to new teachers
-communications tools

The main conclusions were:

- eTwinning should focus more on trainee teachers and teacher training institutions. New teachers can use eTwinning as a training ground (the Spanish NSS has supported this) via a testing project set up on the portal. There should be a special communication outreach to teacher training institutions.

- A book may not be the best way to reach out. Teachers like kits and boxes. A good outreach tool could be a box containing a small book, some digital materials (e.g. on a USB key) and maybe even some equipment such as a webcam

- eTwinning has tremendous pedagogical benefits and it needs to be communicated better. The teachers suggested Ministries of Education should consider how eTwinning could be embedded in the curriculum as an obligatory activity.

- New teachers need to know how easy eTwinning is. It doesn't have to imply extra work if you focus your projects on topics which already exist in the curriculum.

- Technology is still a barrier. Teachers indicated that technology companies like Microsoft, Intel, etc. have a lot to offer in terms of support which could be integrated into eTwinning.

Many thanks to the enthusiastic and creative participants for their excellent ideas!

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Alexa Joyce - eTwinning CSS - European Schoolnet

Romanian folk dancing

2008-03-17T12:11:22Z

... made many of us stand up to take photos or join the dancers.
The dance with the wooden sticks reminded us of the Pauliteiros de Miranda

Teresa Fernandes, Portugal