for the eTwinning Contact Seminar in Tunisia

1. Paraskevi Belogia
eTwinning Ambassador in Greece

3. Share with your partners all the necessary
information:
 Number of students participating in the
project.
 Your students’ age and interests.
 Your students’ level in the foreign language
and their ICT skills.
 Publish all this information in a folder
added in the staff room in Twinspace

5.  Contact
your partners regularly and
arrange meetings online to plan the
activities that follow together.
 Always
reply on your partners’ messages.

6.  Set
the starting dates for each task
 Mark the dates each one of the partner
schools is on holidays.
 Share it with your students
 Tag the deadlines in the calendar in
Twinspace to remind everyone of what
should be done.
 Set deadlines and keep to them.

9.  Decide
with your partners upon the tools
that you will use in each one of the
activities. Share your ideas and try to
choose the best.
 Agree
upon the format of the shared files
published in Twinspace.

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Plan a meeting, introduce the project to the children and
inform the parents, the colleagues and the headteacher
about the specific project.
Add more teachers from your school to the project and
form school teams.
Announce the beginning of the project on the school
website.
Create Twinspace Accounts for all the participants and
invite the students to the Twinspace.
Organise mini-courses for your students on ICT tools to
be used and on how to use the Twinspace
Create Twinspace tutorials for students or partners who
are beginners in eTwinning (if necessary).

13.  Create
activity pages for each one of the
planned tasks.
 Add a short description for each one of the
activities planned on the top of each
activity page.
 Agree with your partners about the most
suitable twinspace tools for each one of
the activities and add them to your activity
pages.

15.  Activity
Blog: a writing tool which allows project members to
write about a specific theme. Everyone can comment on each other’s
messages.
 File Archive: a place where you can store Word documents,
Excel sheets, ppt presentations, videos or any other files related to your
project work
 The Forum: a place where you can create topics for discussion,
set project tasks, or focus on specific topic areas.
 Image Gallery: a place where you can store images related to
your project.
 Wiki: a tool particularly useful for collaborative writing. Unlike a blog,
members can edit your text and add their own.
 The Web Content: it allows you to upload web content by
pasting in the embed code (eg. Videos from Youtube, presentations
from slideshare etc)

17.  Have students interact as much as possible.
 Ask them to update their Twinspace profiles
by adding a short description of themselves
and a representative avatar.
 Ask them to leave comments on their
partners’ walls.
 Vote for the best Twinspace profiles.
 Plan chat sessions and skype meetings
regularly.
 Find creative ways to have your students
introduce themselves and their school or
country.

19. My name is Natalia. My birthday
is on May 5th 2000. I live in
Poland. I’ve got a younger
sister. She’s 3 years old and
she’s very cute. I’m tall and
slim. I’ve got blue eyes and
blond long hair. I like basketball
and ice hockey. In my free time,
I like drawing. I love dogs, but I
don’t have one. My favourite
subjects are Art, Geography,
English and I.T. I’m very friendly
and cute.
My name is Romana
Králiková. I’m 11 years old. I
live in Poland.My birthday is
on August 14th 2000. My
favorite subjects are
Chemistry and English
language. I’ve got long brown
hair. I’m thin and tall. I have
got green eyes. My favorite
hobbies are gymnastics,
cycling, swimming, athletics,
reading

20. http://youtu.be/4Xp0Vg9Dk7g

21. http://youtu.be/ZAuqryHxZwc

24.  Team
the students up in transnational groups.
 Create table with the newly formed transnational
groups and add it to the Twinspace.
 Ask your students to work together and write a
short description of their group members.
 Ask your students to agree upon a name for their
group and draw together a symbol or an emblem
(tool: DrawItLive) for each group.

27. http://youtu.be/D2MbjXyxqpw

28.  Try
to plan activities that need your
partners’ contribution to be completed.
 Use as many collaborative tools as
possible (google.docs, prezi, DrawitLive,
glogster etc)
 Try to avoid creating folders for each
country in Twinspace. Successful
collaborative activities are the ones in
which you cannot tell which of the partners
did what!

29. http://youtu.be/Eo5n9ErRrpA

30.  Discover
your students’ talents and skills
and give them responsibilities.
 Team the students up in groups, according
to their talents (the painting group, the
photography group, the ICT group etc)
 Assign to some students the role of
‘student administrator” in Twinspace

32. Be ready to rearrange activities and plans in
case:
 a partner stops working on the project
 an activity needs more time to be
completed or could not be completed at all.
 new partners ask to join the project
 mixed ability groups take part in the project

33.  Try
to evaluate along with your partners
the quality of your project.
 Recognize Key Strengths
 Identify areas that need improvement
 Plan ongoing evaluation activities ( Ts and
Ss share opinions, make proposals,
comment on each other’s work)

36.  Plan
an evaluation activity at the end of the
project for students
 Ask them to comment on
-what they liked/didn’t like from the
specific project
- what they gained from the whole
experience

38. Once your project is complete:
 Close
your project
 Apply for a Quality Label
 Take part in the National eTwinning awards
competition
 Take part in the European eTwinning
awards competition

39.  Present
the project to the school
community
 Publish the material created in your school
website
 Write articles to be published in local
newspapers or in online educational blogs
 Present your project in
conferences, seminars, workshops etc