eTwinning contac t seminar 2nd – 4th June , 2011

1. eTwinning contact seminar2nd – 4th June, 2011 Discovering TwinSpace and the eTwinning Desktop Tatjana Gulič: tatjanagulic@gmail.com Dejan Kramžar: kramzar@gmail.com

2. Brief introduction to the eTwinning Portal and its three levels • Introduction of the new eTwinning Desktop • Introduction to the TwinSpace • Practical exercises and opportunity for questions

3. What is the eTwinning Portal? • The central area for eTwinning activities to take place • www.etwinning.net (http://desktop.etwinning.net/) • A platform for information, networking and collaboration • Public Portal, Desktop, TwinSpace • Learning Lab, Groups • All information available in 23 languages

4. Public Portal

5. Private desktop

7. In other words… • eTwinners (registered users) have access to: • Networking tools • An environment to share ideas • A platform to access and contribute to educational resources • Tools to collaborate • And much more…

8. TwinSpace – secure place, public as members want to

9. set language

10. www.etwinning.net REGISTER LOGIN GET STARTED!

11. News from NSS News from CSS

15. Project description Title Short description Communication language(s) What is the age range of the pupils to be involved in the project? How many pupils altogether are going to participate in the project? Subject areas Tools to be used Aims Work process Expected results Is your project based on an eTwinning Project Kit?

19. Beyond projects… • The Portal also offers additional professional development opportunities to gain inspiration and exchange ideas • Learning Events (webinars) • eTwinning Groups

20. Learning Events • Register via your Desktop

21. eTwinning Groups • Register via your Desktop

22. TwinSpace – secure place, public as members want to

23. What does the TwinSpace offer? 1. A set of collaboration tools for pupils and teachers • Blogs • Forums • Wikis • File archives • Photo galleries • Web pages 2. Areas for planning and discussing • Staff room • Pupils’ Corner • Chat 3. Possibility for sharing and publishing results • Published TwinSpace with project URL

24. Try the Desktop out… • Profiles: • Update your ‘Quick Profile’ (in the new Desktop: ‘About Me’) • Ready for a Comenius School partnership? • Add a photo to your Profile • Add photos to your gallery - personal and school profile • Write on a ‘wall’ (in the new Desktop: reply to someone's ‘journal’ posting) • Partner finding: • search for contacts • search for your neighbour • add a contact • accept a contact • Project - start the registration process?

25. You need to Login

26. Quick access to other project TwinSpaces click Quick jump betweenprojects

27. TwinSpace look Add activities: only with administrative rights

28. To add new activities first click on Project Activities than Add Application

29. For new Activities (sections) in TwinSpace Write down the name of new page To Publish or Hide or delete

30. Applications are • Cooperative applications • Blog • Forums • Wiki • Applications to organize files, photos,… • File archive • Picture gallery • Web page

31. Applications

32. Staff room – only for the teachers, pupils can’t see it

33. Pupils can have Forums, File archives, Galleries, web pages, wikis

34. Chat, on-line one by one in private rooms or all together

35. When we Login, we can see last logins and last changes…

36. Project diary…

37. Settings…

38. Left mouse click Copy Link Lication How to put video in Blog

39. For flash video…

40. Paste url here

41. eTwinning tools Enhanced communication tools Networking and Social networking User generated content (Project Diary) Tagging and Maps

42. Involving pupils: eTwinning Projects • eTwinning TwinSpace Virtual classrooms where eTwinning projects run their activities • As a staffroom • As a classroom • As a portfolio • As a showroom • User generated content • (Project Diary)

43. User generated content (Project Diary)

44. Everyone has a role… • Roles scheme: • Teacher Administrator: full project partners • Teacher Member: support teachers • Pupil Administrator: project coordinators • Pupil Member: participants • Visitor: guests (to private TwinSpaces)

45. Thank you!