15 Aralık 2018 Cumartesi






Project Name:
Each Teacher Meets Etwinning



Aim of the Project (Projenin amacı)

The aim of this course is to enable the teachers to go beyond the traditional methods of lecture, to follow the developing technology and to introduce them to the technological conditions of the future.








Objectives of the Project


  • Teachers and students to prepare the course preparation stage with web 2 tools
  • We aim to be able to increase the knowledge and experience of teachers and students by first communicating with their teachers and students in their neighborhoods and then in their own provinces and international schools.



Notes from Open eTwinning: Project-Based Learning and the Community for Schools in Europe

  • it is important to know what project-based learning (PBL) is as much of the work inside eTwinning focusses on the principles of PBL.
  • When starting to use PBL in the classroom, it is important to relate it to the real world and communities in order to engage students more. The content and knowledge acquired by the student will be those demanded by the curricula, but you shouldn’t forget that participation in a project – for example a project with another school via eTwinning – will provide the content and should not be taken as a side activity, but as the core of the lesson.

How can a collaborative project help me in my teaching?
We suggest carrying out a self-analysis of your teaching practice to detect some key items that you would like to improve or where you would like to experiment. Briefly express them, and share them in a collective brainstorming. You can use images, videos or infographics to support your ideas.

Quality in etwinning
https://youtu.be/JtboIo8pzrs



There are 6 evaluation criteria when creating an eTwinning project: 1) Innovation and Creativity; 2) Curricular integration; 3) Communication and Interaction among partner schools; 4) Collaboration among partner schools; 5) Use of technology; 6) Results, impact and documentation. Identify one of the criteria on the Padlet and explain what things you would put in place as part of a project to ensure a high score in that criterium.





https://www.slideshare.net/SNA_etwinning/project-planning-61411411

Don’t forget to follow the list and provide other resources you know about. When contributing, remember to tag them properly, so when including a tool, tag it with “tools” (in plural). This will facilitate the search of resources. See in List.ly here.
List.ly here.






Design a collaborative activity

Golden rules for successful eTwinning collaboration
In any good task or project, there must be rules to follow and fulfill to guarantee its success. Next, we list nine golden rules that will ensure the success of your eTwinning collaborative project.
  1. Get to know your partners: share with your partners all the necessary information, such as the number of students participating in the project, your students’ age and interests, your students’ level in foreign languages and their ICT skills.
  2. Create a detailed time schedule: set the starting dates for each task, mark the dates when one of the partner schools is on holidays, share it with your students, set deadlines and respect them.
  3. Preparatory planning leads to a successful eTwinning project: plan a meeting, introduce the project to the children and inform the parents, the colleagues and the headteacher about the specific project; add more teachers from your school to the project and form school teams; announce the beginning of the project on the school website; create Twinspace accounts for all the participants, and invite students to the Twinspace; organise mini-courses for your students on ICT tools to be used, and on how to use the Twinspace; create Twinspace tutorials for students or partners who are beginners in eTwinning (if necessary).
  4. Design your Twinspace carefully: create activity pages for each one of the planned tasks, add a short description for each one of the activities planned at the top of each activity page, agree with your partners about the most suitable tools for each one of the activities, and add them to your activity pages.
  5. Break the ice and get to know each other: have students interact as much as possible, ask them to update their Twinspace profiles by adding a short description of themselves, and a representative avatar. Ask them to leave comments on their partners’ walls, and to vote for the best Twinspace profiles. Plan chat sessions and skype meetings regularly. Find creative ways to have your students introduce themselves and their school or country.
  6. Team your students up in Transnational Groups: team students up in transnational groups, create a table with the newly formed transnational groups and add it to the Twinspace. Ask your students to work together and write a short description of their group members. Ask your students to also agree upon a name for their group and draw together a symbol or an emblem for each group.
  7. Plan as many collaborative activities as possible: try to plan activities that need your partners’ contribution to be completed. Use as many collaborative tools as possible (Google suite, DrawitLive, Glogster, etc.). Try to avoid creating folders for each country in Twinspace (successful collaborative activities are the ones in which you cannot tell which of the partners did what!).
  8. Assign responsibilities to your students: discover your students’ talents and skills and give them responsibilities. Team the students up in groups, according to their talents (the painting group, the photography group, the ICT group, etc.), and assign to some students the role of "student administrator" in Twinspace.
  9. Set Evaluation Criteria: try to evaluate the quality of your project along with your partners. Recognize Key Strengths, and identify areas that need improvement. Plan ongoing evaluation activities (share opinions, make proposals, comment on each other’s work).
These golden rules will make an eTwinning project a successful experience, since they promote collaboration between partners, PBL methodology and the change of role of the teacher and students. Remember that it is important to clearly indicate to the students what they have to do, how they must do it and when they have to do it, designing the phases of the activity very clearly. This will facilitate their autonomy and the development of skills. In these new processes, we must emphasize the fact that we have to facilitate and provide opportunities for the students to work as a team, both among them, in the classroom, and with their distant partners.

For this new challenge, we propose you:
  • To design an ICT activity, which is part of the collaborative project you expect to launch in the future and that involves real collaboration, thereby obtaining a tangible and measurable end-result that is directly related to the project you are planning and developing. Remember that we are talking about one single activity, not a set of them or a whole project.
  • You can use resources you have seen in the previous modules, and ICT tools that can help you in your design, such as those we offer in social lists.
  • When you design it, do it in your personal portfolio; this will be the place where you are developing your project plan, which in Module 5, will need to be finalized.
  • Evaluate yourself using this rubric. While this activity is not peer-to-peer, you can evaluate yourself using this rubric.
































creating a portfolio

We can also provide you with some tutorials on the various platforms: