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Contact Seminar Nice

Contact Seminar Nice . Goals for the seminar. Help all of you find a partner Work with you to design and register a project Give you the tools to launch your project with your students . What’s the context ? . P roject-based learning Sustainable Development

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Contact Seminar Nice

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  1. Contact Seminar Nice

  2. Goals for the seminar • Help all of you find a partner • Work with you to design and register a project • Give you the tools to launch your project with your students

  3. What’s the context? • Project-based learning • Sustainable Development • Sharing good practices with peers • Professional Development • eTwinning ambassador network

  4. WhatexactlyiseTwinning ? • A program that helps teachers organize distance learning projects with teachers in other European countries • Action launched by the European Commission, part of the Lifelong Learning Program and Comenius.

  5. eTwinningoffersyou • Secure, online network of teachers • Partner finding tools • A safe, online work space for projects • Help and guidance when needed • Free online and face-to-face training

  6. eTwinningprojects help you … • Teach in a transversal and interdisciplinary way • Change your teaching habits and classroom dynamics • IntegrateICT naturally

  7. eTwinningprojects help pupils… • Becomeengaged • Feelempowered • Use language in real situations • Make connections betweensubject areas • Developautonomy • Build ICT skills

  8. Professional Development • Formal and informal prof. dev. • eTwinningGroups and Teachers’ Rooms • Online training • Improve your own skills in project-based learning and ICT

  9. Recognition • Quality Labels • National and European Prizes • Dissemination of project (national websites, etc.) • Training otherteachers – tutors, ambassadors

  10. You are not alone …the eTwinning support network • Central Support Service in Brussels • National Support Service in every country • eTwinning « ambassadors » and tutors • In some countries, local support

  11. The Life-Cycle of an eTwinningProject

  12. Stage 1: Getting a project idea

  13. Stage 2: Finding partners Normally you go through the Desktop to find a partner. Here, you can find your partner through the Speed Twinning activity

  14. Stage 3: Building the project together 1. Defining the project idea 2. Planning the project 3. Preparing the 1st activity for the pupils 4. Registering the project You’ll have to time to work on each stage during the seminar

  15. Stage 4: Getting started Once you get back home, you will … 1. Access your project Twinspace 2. Invite your pupils into the Twinspace 3. Launch a pupil-centered activity as an ice-breaker

  16. Stage 5: Conducting the project 1. Communicate often and efficiently 2. Follow your planned phases 3. Be ready to adjust and adapt

  17. Stage 6: Evaluating the project 1. Reflection - between the teachers - with the pupils 4. Benefits for the school and community 3. Lessons learned and recommendations 4. Celebrating!

  18. Stage 7: Sharing and disseminating 1. Presenting the project results and benefits to the school community and management 2. Applying for a National Quality Label 3. Beyond the project, taking part in: eTwinning teams, groups, ambassadors 4. Training colleagues

  19. Virtual Traval Journal A simple cooperativeproject

  20. Project idea… Idea: Presentourschool, neighborhood, city, region to ourpartners, and vice versa. Problem: it’s a bit disappointingbecausethere’s no cooperation

  21. Instead … • Each class willmake a Virtual Travel Journal for theirpartner class • Exchanging and transforming information about eachother’senvironments

  22. Both classes : • Gather information and senditto theirpartners • Organize, interpretthe information the partners’ sent : create a traveljournal for theirpartners’ country • Sendtheir journal and receive the partners’ journal

  23. Motivation • Research + data selectionabout ourownenvironment. Necessary for the partners. • Need to receive info frompartners: waiting, discoveringpartners’ environment • CreatingJournals: transforming, interpreting, composing about partners’ environment. • Curiosity : how willthe partnersperceive and presentourenvironment

  24. Organization • Lengthis up to you • Different possible focuses : • Environment: school/neighborhood/region… • Themes: geography, history, music, littérature… • Paths: dailypath to school, for festivals or leisure… • Etc.

  25. 2 kinds of information • Objective, general, macrosocial • Map of the country, statistics, famous people/events, pressclippings, places • Personal, subjective, microsocial • The pupilsthemselves, stories, preferences • Drawing/painting of neighborhood… • What I like in myneighborhood… • The city whenmygrandmotherwasyoung… • Mypocket money… 

  26. Materials • Images: postcards, maps, photos, paintings… • Texts: articles, literarytexts,poems… • Objects: real objects, scanned/photographed • Sounds: radio, songs, music, sheet music..

  27. Have a good seminar!

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