e twinning anne-gilleran
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Anne Gilleran: eTwinning: the community for schools in EuropeScientix European Conference, Brussels, 6-8 May 2011TRANSCRIPT
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eTwinning: opportunities for teachers
Anne Gilleran – pedagogical manager
eTwinning Central Support Service
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I have been involved in many European Schoolnet projects involving schools, teachers and school leaders
I come from Irelanduniversity lecturerschool counsellorhead teacherresearcherexpert in ICT for education
Worked for the European Schoolnet since 2001
Pedagogical manager for eTwinning since 2005
Anne who?
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The question……..The context……….The details……. eTwinning & ScientixSome reflections and considerations
Topics
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What is eTwinning?
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A Lifelong Learning Programme initiative- within the Comenius action
Launched January 2005
2005-2008 Phase 1
2008-2013 Phase 2
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Key Facts about eTwinning
• 33 countries participate• Each of those countries has a National Support
Service NSS• Overall coordination by the Central Support
Service Run by European Schoolnet on behalf of the EU Commission
•It all happens on the eTwinning Portal www.eTwinning.net
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The Context………
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European key competencies
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Lifelong learning strategiesLifelong learning strategies
Quality of Learning
Personal perspective:• Personal fulfilment• Social
inclusion/citizenship• Employability/careers
Social perspective:• Constructive
democracy
World of work perspective• Skills for innovation
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Life-wide learning
formal
non-formal
informal
Life
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21 Century Literacy Debate
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4 suggested literacies
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What happened in 2005 or….
The Internet context
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Within two years………..
February 2004
January 2005
February 2005
October 2006
February 2004.
20062005/06
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2005 – 08 eTwinning also changed!Evolved from a solely a project based activity between two teachers to…..
Providing a social network platform that allows for teacher exchange on practice and experience in a variety of different ways
+An improved dedicated collaborative working space for projects
+ Extended opportunities for professional development
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eTwinning 2.0
3 main elements– Informal social network– Online collaborative work– Continuing professional development
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The eTwinning Portal
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The heart of eTwinning is the portal:
www.etwinning.net
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Examples
Desktop tools………….
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News from the eTwinning world
Suggests resources based on your profile
Informs on upcoming events
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Personal profile
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Personal content
Contacts & projects
Journal
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Teacher Rooms
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Designed as places to invite other people to discuss topics over a short period of time
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Collaborative working tools……..
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TwinSpace
Teachers
Pupils
•Chat•Image Gallery•Document folders•Publishing tools•Blog•Wiki
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And professional development……….
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eTwinning Groups34 Groups now active
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Learning Events
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15 Learning events in 2010
20,000 + teachers involved
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Is eTwinning successful?
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133,000 users
1million messages
20,000+ users/day
3 million + pupils
53,941 projects
eTwinning (May 2011)
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Professional Development numbers
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eTwinning & Scientix
Compliment each other
Scientix provides you with unique subject resources, contact with research and new developments in science education
eTwinning provides you with a communications platform for collaborative project work, formal and informal contact with other teachers and an alternate set of professional development opportunities
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Sir John Holman
‘Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.’ Goethe
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‘Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.’ Henry Ford