The document discusses ways to encourage asynchronous communication between students using Twinspace, an eTwinning platform. It recommends inviting students to create Twinspace accounts, update their profiles, leave messages on peers' walls, participate in discussions and forums, use the mailbox tool to communicate, and share photos, videos and texts by uploading them. It also suggests assigning students to transnational groups for collaborative activities, providing feedback through commenting and assessments, using Twinspace tools and web2.0 tools, and establishing netiquette rules to respect the online environment.

1. Asynchronous communication in
Twinspace
Angeliki Kougiourouki
eTwinning ambassador, Greece

2. Project Journal-regular posts

3. Encourage pupils communication
 Invite them to Twinspace
 Create pupils accounts for them

4. Encourage communication
Ask pupils
 to update their
profile
 to leave short
messages on
their partners’
personal “wall”

5. Encourage communication
Suggest pupils to log in regularly to the Twinspace

6. Encourage communication
 Initiate discussions
 Motivate pupils to take
part writting their
opinion in the Twinspace
forums

7. Encourage communication
Encourage pupils to use the
mailbox of the Twinmail tool to
communicate with their peers

8. Encourage communication
Pupils and teachers can
share photos, videos and
written texts by
uploading them on the
Twinspace materials and
use them to write the
project pages

9. Encourage communication
Teachers can also communicate
by leaving messages to their
partners in the teacher bulletin

10. Encourage communication throughout
collaborative activities
 Team up pupils in
transnational groups
 Assign roles according
to their interests or
talents
 Encourage them to
connect, collaborate,
produce and share
original content

11. Encourage communication providing
feedback
 Motivate students to comment on each others’
work (project journal, forums, padlets inside
the pages)
 Use polls, surveys and assessment activities
throughout the project

12. Encourage communication providing
feedback

13. Encourage communication using tools
Motivate students to use:
 the Twinpsace tools
 web2.0 tools

14. Encourage communication with
netiquette rules
 Respect the online
environment
 Agree upon the
netiquette rules