The NEW eTwinning TwinSpace

The NEW TwinSpace Christina 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 TwinSpace
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net
sevilla1 / etwinn1
sevilla2 / etwinn1
sevilla3 / etwinn1
sevilla4 / etwinn1
sevilla5 / etwinn1
sevilla6 / etwinn1

Tasks
Get access (login as pupil or get someone to invite you)
Change the language of the TwinSpace
Invite a teacher, create a pupil profile
Create an activities page
Add applications
Create posts: forum, blog, wiki, etc.
Web Content Display: write text, embed a YouTube video, add photos
Create a calendar event
Send an email
Publish/unpublish
Ask a question in the CHAT area.

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The NEW eTwinning TwinSpace

by Christina Crawley on Feb 10, 2010

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