This document summarizes tips for defining and creating a good eTwinning project. It discusses the importance of planning before a project, collaborating during it, and reflecting after it is complete. Key aspects to consider in planning include involving students, setting objectives and expectations, and addressing organizational issues. During a project, it is important to focus on motivating activities that require collaboration. After a project, evaluators should reflect on what worked well and what could be improved, and consider applying for an eTwinning Quality Label to recognize high-quality projects. The overall message is that eTwinning projects should have clear structure but also allow participants to have fun through collaborative learning activities.

1. Multilateral Seminar
Dubrovnik, 24-26 Oct. 2013
www.etwinning.net
How to define
a good eTwinning project
Massimiliano D’Innocenzo
NSS eTwinning Italia

2. A workshop about…
Project management and teamwork…
What does it mean in eTwinning?
A good or great project has…
What is quality and impact in eTwinning?
Improving quality and raising student standards
in a project….
How to do that in eTwinning?

3. Three tips for a new project to start…
1. At the beginning, relax and look forward
2. During the project, relax and look around
3. At the end, relax and look back

4. Things to agree BEFORE
Detect your needs:
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What you are not happy with in your teaching
What you want to improve
What you want to try
What you can learn from each other

5. Things to agree BEFORE
Involve your students:
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What they’d like to do
How they’d like to learn
What they already know
What they can teach you
Ask them! Negotiate with them!

6. Things to agree BEFORE
Some organization issues:
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Number and age of students
Time to work in the project per week/month
Holiday periods
Timing
School ICT facilities
Number of schools involved
Teachers/subjects per school

7. Things to agree BEFORE
Set the objectives:
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Concrete
Realistic
Measurable
What final products are expected?
How these products relate to the objectives?
How will they be evaluated?

8. Things to agree BEFORE
Done?
Now, try to point out
the strengths and weaknesses of your plan…
and Revise!

9. Aim at quality!
A quality project doesn’t have to be
spectacular,
difficult,
complex,
long,
or sophisticated.
A quality project just has to be EFFICIENT
Ask your NSS for quality criteria before starting

10. BEFORE – keyword
Planning

11. Things to do DURING
Think on the activities:
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Are they motivating?
Are they relevant?
Do they require collaboration?
Do NOT choose the tools first. Think upside
down!

12. Things to do DURING
Monitoring:
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Use the Project Cards
Evaluate
How will you evaluate? Use rubrics
Reflect, rethink, revise

13. What is a rubric?
Adapted from: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/tidepoolunit/rubrics/collrubric.html

14. DURING – keyword
Collaborate

15. Things to make you think AFTER
Evaluate the project (remember the rubrics?):
- Ask students and teachers
- Check objectives and results
- What would you change in further projects?

16. Things to make you think AFTER
Reorganize material:
- Can a third person follow the development of the
project?
- Is the TwinSpace clear?
- Is there enough documentation?
- What should be public and what should be kept
private?

17. Things to make you think AFTER
Are you satisfied?
Then, why don’t you go for a Quality Label?
- Ask your NSS
- Create a “visitor” for evaluators
- QL application is only a guide for evaluators: if you have more
documentation, add it in the TwinSpace
- Put yourself in the place of an evaluator: is everything clear?

18. AFTER – keywords
Reflect
& Share

26. One most important tip
Have fun!

27. Thanks for your attention
Massimiliano D’Innocenzo, eTwinning NSS Italy m.dinnocenzo@indire.it
A special thank to Diego Rojas, former eTwinning NSS Spain