A presentation about developing successful eTwinning projects

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Creating a successful
project
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Angeliki Kougiourouki & Rania Bekiri
Greek ambassadors

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Attributs of a good eTwinning project
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What is a good eTwinning project?
An eTwinning project enables students to:
 learn in a creative and innovative way
 connect lessons with real life
 show initiative and creativity in problem solving
 apply different ways of working and learning (teamwork, peer learning,
informal learning)
 Use effective ways of collaboration through project-based learning

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Life-cycle of an eTwinning project
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Create a detailed schedule for my project
➢ Starting and ending dates of the activities
➢ Brief description of the activities
➢ Holidays dates, holidays, starting and ending of the
school year
What to do?

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Detailed project plan
Google
doc
Topics
Procedur
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Tools
Activities
Products

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Information on the project

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Project Journal-regular posts

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Encourage students communication
Students greet each other in partners native language
Present themselves:
• with an avatar
• with a puppet
• with a draw
In Twinspace related page
During a live event

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• We create activity pages
for each of the activities
• WE add a brief
description of the
activity that follows the
top of each page
We carefully design
the project’s
Twinspace
Where to do?

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•1st page: The project
activities total
•2nd page: We know
•3rd page:…….
•4rth page:….
•……………
•Last page: Evaluation
We carefully
design the
project’s
Twinspace
Where to do?

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When to do?

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We create folders
with pictures, videos and files

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Present our school, town, country
Tools for creating and publishing video:
Windows Moviemaker/ Youtube
My school

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Play related games to interact
with the partners

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Create transnational groups
useful for students in primary school

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Plan collaborative activities
-We plan activities that need the
contribution of our collaborators to complete
-We use collaborative tools
(google.docs, colorillo, meetingwords, etc)
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FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Ideas and examples of collaborative activities
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AWARDED PROJECTS
Getting ideas from awarded projects is a very good practice!
Awarded projects use many tools and have achieved a high
degree of collaboration among the pupils!

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Students:
 in national or transnational groups create a logo for the project
 vote the uploaded in a padlet, googleforms, Twinboard logos
We create together project’s logo

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We write or record project’s dictionary together!

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We write stories together!

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https://issuu.com/
https://www.storyjumper.com/
We use different web2.0 tools to publish
our common stories
https://www.calameo.com/

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We write poems together!

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https://meetingswords.com/
We write songs together!

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We learn simple words in our partners’ language!
https://voicethread.com/

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We are having fun drawing!

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We plan attractive activities

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• Teachers evaluate the
project
• Students evaluate the
project
• Parents evaluate the
project
We plan
evaluation
tasks
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Apikhomboonwaroot /
FreeDigitalPhotos.net
We evaluate the project

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Share creativity!
Present your project in the
school community
Publish material on the school
website
Publish articles in local newspapers and educational
journals
Present your work at conferences,
seminars, meetings, workshops, etc.

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When the project is complete:
 Close the project
 Apply for quality label
 Join the national awards
 Take part in the European awards
Give identification opportunities to the project

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Important!
 Respect other people’ work
 Use your own material
 Teach your students to respect Intellectual property
– Learn about copyright issues!
 Be aware of sharing personal data
 Search for creative commons music/images