1. eTwinning www.etwinning.net www.etwinning.net Michael O’Donnabhain eTwinning Project Manager British Council

2. 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

3. 32 European Countries Over 85,000 teachers in Europe Over 7,500 teachers in UK 809 teachers in London Over 5,500 active projects in the UK Approx. 150 eTwinning ambassadors eTwinning Headlines

4. Benefits of using ICT Real Audience Motivation Personalised learning 21 st Century Learning Most important of all: Collaboration

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

6. 3 layers The Public Portal –Information and inspiration for all –Where teachers register to eTwinning The Desktop –Search tools and profiles –Where teachers get in touch, communicate and share –and register an eTwinning project The TwinSpace –Private project workspace –Where project partners and pupils collaborate online –Where project work is/can be published and shared online

7. Project ideas and examples Magic Christmas Trees and Wishes: Link to Twinspace Schoolovision 2009: http://schoolovision2009.blogspot.com/ http://schoolovision2009.blogspot.com/

8. Partner finding tips Write clear and concise project ideas on your profile Be proactive Use the partner finding forum Be flexible Don’t give up!!

9. Support michael.odonnabhain@britishcouncil.orgmichael.odonnabhain@britishcouncil.org – Your local eTwinning contact based in London etwinning@britishcouncil.orgetwinning@britishcouncil.org – Main team in Belfast On the web – www.britishcouncil.org/etwinningwww.britishcouncil.org/etwinning - UK site www.etwinning.wikispaces.comwww.etwinning.wikispaces.com – eTwinnning UK Wikispace www.etwinninguk.typepadwww.etwinninguk.typepad – eTwinning UK Blog A version of this presentation can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/OwainWright

10. Outside of www.etwinning.netwww.etwinning.net Blogging www.blogger.com www.blogger.com Video-conferencing http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/ & www.elluminate.com http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/www.elluminate.com Wikispaces www.wikispaces.com www.wikispaces.com Google docs http://docs.google.com http://docs.google.com Wordle www.wordle.net www.wordle.net Animoto www.animoto.com www.animoto.com