1. Workshop 11. March 2011 – Helsingør, Denmark EPS & eTwinning Ebbe Schultze Chief Advicer eTwnning National Support Service, Danmark (NSS) UNIC eb@uni-c.dk

2. eTwinning is an initiative of the European Commission supported by all member states eTwinning: “The community for schools in Europe” It is therefore publicly-funded and is free to schools It aims to increase the number and quality of online collaborative school partnership.

3. The eTwinning action works with Affiliate partners Work within a multilingual and multicultural society Synergy between the partners projects Together, the partners promote and enhance school collaboration through the medium of ICT Increase participation of schools in online collaborative projects Provide the schools with easy access to –collaboration networks –projects and activities –contacts, tools and services Promote and support the development of a collaborative project pedagogy Coordinate and cooperate with other public and private partners aiming at achieving similar objectives.

4. The eTwinning portal consist of 3 subportals The open eTwinning portal www.etwinning.net. Where everyone can see the registered schools, look on the individual projects and be inspired to eTwinning projects, and can register as en eTwinning teacher.www.etwinning.net The closed eTwinning Desktop. As a registered teacher you have access to the Orange eTwinning Desktop. Consist of partner finding tools and project tools. The project portal: TwinSpace, www.new- twinspace.etwinning.net. Build up your own portal with web 2.0 tools, invite teachers and pupils from all the participating classes.www.new- twinspace.etwinning.net

5. eTwinning-portal in 23 language: etwinning.net 129.000 teachers from more than 90.000 schools in 32 countries. About 28.000 project between two or more schools. Find a partner class. Build a project Share ideas Exchange good practice 5

7. Number of teachers registret at the eTwinning portal 16-08-201010-03-2011 Denmark1.3151.755 Nordic6.5148.057 Europe97.241128.993

20. ‘How would you improve eTwinning?’

21. eTwinning: etwinning.emu.dk og www.etwinning.netetwinning.emu.dkwww.etwinning.net Galleri (gode examples): www.etwinning.net/da/pub/inspiration/gallery.cfmwww.etwinning.net/da/pub/inspiration/gallery.cfm Learning Lab, www.learninglab.etwinning.net/www.learninglab.etwinning.net/ eTwinning 2.0 – an online-community for schools in Europa 70p. http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/DA_eTwinning_brochure.pdf http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/DA_eTwinning_brochure.pdf Step by step - Twinspace (en) 35s. http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/Step_by_Step_Support_EN_new.pdf http://resources.eun.org/etwinning/25/Step_by_Step_Support_EN_new.pdf Video support in Danish : www.etwinning.emu.dkwww.etwinning.emu.dk Info and help from UK: http://etwinninguk.wikispaces.com/ http://etwinninguk.wikispaces.com/file/list#list?o=20&rid=1 eTwinning NSS Denmarketwinning@uni-c.dketwinning@uni-c.dk Links: