1. eTwinning www.etwinning.net 1

2. What is eTwinning?
eTwinning is a free, flexible, easy to use resource for enhancing the use of ICT across all areas of the curriculum.

3. Public Pages: project ideas and resources
Desktop: personal profile, partner-finding tool, project registration
Twinspace: Your project’s own virtual classroom with communication tools and a place to share your work for your project

4. Resources: Hundreds of categorised project ideas publically available for working with students aged 3-18 across various subject areas e.g. ‘Statistics and You’, Maths and Sciences, Age group 3-13
Safe environment: Online community of over 160, 000 teachers from 32 countries
Partner-finding tool: Once registered you can search online for partner schools and create joint projects
Project space: Once you’ve registered a project your project will be given it’s own virtual classroom where you can upload files, photos, videos, blogs, and wikis etc and use the live chat facility
Support: There is a complete package of free online resources available to support partnerships
Awards: Schools can apply for a Quality Label for their project and can use this work as part of their application for the International Schools Award
Professional Development opportunities As well as online networking with other teachers online, there are online learning opportunities and webinars

5. 32 European Countries 25 languages 182,000 teachers 25000+ projects
All EU countries can participate
Plus Norway, Iceland, Turkey, Switzerland & Croatia can participate.
Switzerland is the newest member of eTwinning and joined in 2011
25 Languages
eTwinning website available in 25 languages to make it easier for all teachers across Europe to use eTwinning, not just those who are fluent in English.
You can change the display language of the website on the home page at
There is a support team for every European country
Teachers
Teacher numbers are constantly changing but you can see the most up to date figures on the home page
For example, how many teachers are registered and who joined most recently.
Projects
eTwinning project numbers are constantly changing as teachers join eTwinning & start/finish collaborative projects at any time
Over 750 Yorkshire schools registered
Over 1200 Yorkshire teacher registered
projects 5

6. Aims of eTwinning
Facilitate collaboration between teachers in different countries in Europe
Allow teachers and pupils to work together online using various tools
Provide a multilingual platform for online work in 23 languages
Make it easy to use ICT in education 6

7. Reasons to use eTwinning:
It is a free resource
Safe online environment
No application form or lengthy admin process
Could be your 1st step or could enhance an existing link
Real context for learning

8. eTwinning in the UK Over 15,000 teachers in the UK
Approx. 100 eTwinning ambassadors across the UK 8

9. The ingredients to a successful eTwinning project
The existing curriculum
New ICT skills
Cross Curricular skills
Student initiative
Teacher collaboration
A finished product (Collaboration)

10. What eTwinning can do for You
CPD opportunities:
Local ICT based workshops
Webinars
European Professional Development Workshops
Part of a community of peers
Exciting and interesting way to work
Develop your ICT skills

11. Further eTwinning training
Online training:

12. Support etwinning@britishcouncil.org On the web:
- UK site
– eTwinnning UK Wikispace
– eTwinning UK Blog 12

13. Comenius In-service Training
Comenius Assistants
Comenius Bilateral Partnerships
Comenius Multilateral Partnerships
Comenius Regio
Fullbright UK/US Programme
Schools Online
International Schools Award
British Council Schools Programme