The document discusses the 5 magic words of eTwinning: collaboration, community, innovation, communication, and creativity. It provides details about how each aspect is supported on the eTwinning platform. Collaboration allows teachers and students to work together across borders on projects and online courses. The platform builds a community for sharing ideas and materials to enhance the learning experience. eTwinning also promotes innovation through new teaching methods and the spread of ideas. It enables effective communication between European educators. Finally, creativity is encouraged as educators find new ways of teaching and students express their talents.

1. Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

2. The 5 magic words of eTwinning
• Collaboration
• Community
• Innovation
• Communication
• Creativity
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

3. Collaboration
• eTwinning opens incredible possibilities and gives a totally new and different
dimension for teamwork and collaboration
• Teachers collaborate with colleagues from different countries exchanging
ideas and materials.
• Students collaborate with students from other countries.
• eTwinning is all about collaboration whether it's in projects or in an online
course or in a learning group. There can be no etwinning without
collaboration!
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

4. Community
• eTwinning allows students and teachers to communicate, cooperate, collaborate and enjoy the learning
experience.
• eTwinning enables the ability of all of the participants to think outside the box. It brings the classroom
experience alive with sharing knowledge, developing materials and be part of the larger learning community
in Europe.
• eTwinning is a platform that makes you feel that you never gone be alone. It is a leaving community that
allows everybody to share, communicate, cooperate, collaborate and enjoy the learning experience.
• eTwinning makes you feel that you are a part of a community of enthusiast and expert professionals
exchanging ideas and building new skills which are invading teaching.
• eTwinning is a community of teachers and students who supports each other to reach the common goal of
quality in education.
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

5. Innovation
• eTwinning offers an innovative teaching method.
• It allows teaching practices to evolve and provides students with an open
mind and motivating learning.
• eTwinning promotes innovation in education with new learning technics
spreading around the community
• eTwinning helps teachers and students to translate innovating ideas into
educational reality. It offers the tools to involve and try new innovating ideas
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

6. Communication
• eTwinning enables teachers to communicate effectively with other
European teachers about education, to broaden their horizons,
and to engage in learning activities.
• eTwinning promotes communication, through collaborative
activities, which is the key function of any educational system.
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

7. Creativity
• Creativity is the leading force of eTwinning that encourages educators to find and try new ways
of teaching
• eTwinning enables the ability to all of the participants to think in a more collaborative and
creatively way.
• Being an eTwinner enables pupils and teachers to be creative in many ways. It helps them to
develop different talents and gives the opportunity to exchange them with others.
• All eTwinners are able to express their creativity in many different ways and acquire useful skills
for their future work.
• It is also promoting creativity through the implementations of new technology and ICT, which is
giving the opportunity to the adopters to build rich learning experiences.
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou

8. Thank you for your attention!
Author: Nikolaos Aimilianos Papadimitriou