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Embedding Good practices in eTwinning Projects

Angeliki Kougiourouki, Rania Bekiri Greece

Reliable partners

At least three partners in a project

Two founders - known partners

Sufficient information

Good communication

With whom to do an eTwinning project?

Create a detailed schedule for my project➢ Starting and ending dates of the activities

➢ Brief description of the activities

➢ Holidays dates, holidays, starting and ending of the school year

What to do?

Google doc

Topics

Procedure Tools

Activities

Products

Detailedproject plan

Information on the project

Project Journal-regular posts

Inviting pupils

Web2.0 for creating an avatar• www.bitstrips.com• www.sp-studio.de• www.picassohead.com

• I create activity pages for each of the activities

• I add a brief description of the activity that follows the top of each page

I carefully design the project’s Twinspace

Where to do?

•1st page: The project activities total•2nd page: We know•3rd page:…….•4rth page:….•……………•Last page: Evaluation

I carefully design the project’s Twinspace

Where to do?

When to do?

We create folderswith pictures, videos and files

Presenting my school/ my town

Tools for creating and publishing video: Windows Moviemaker/ Youtube

«A new town, an

old history»My school

Let’s solve the quiz!

I create transnational groups

-I plan activities that need the contribution of my collaborators to complete-I use collaborative tools(google.docs, DrawitLive, titanpad, etc)

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I plan cooperative activities

Ideas and examples of collaborative activities

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We write together notes as stories!

http://padlet.com/

We write project’s dictionary together!

We write stories together!

Collaborative Fairytales

https://issuu.com/ https://www.storyjumper.com/

We write poems together!

https://titanpad.com/

We write songs together!

We sing in our partners language!

We learn our partners’ language!

https://voicethread.com/

We are having fun drawing!

http://colorillo.com/

http://draw.it

I plan attractive activities

Games

Mascot creation!

Logo creation!

• Teachers evaluate the project

• Students evaluate the project

We plan evaluation tasks

Image courtesy of Nutdanai Apikhomboonwaroot / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

https://www.google.com/forms/about/

Share creativity!

Present your project in the school community

Publish material on the school website

Publish articles in local newspapers and educational journals

Present your work at conferences, seminars,

meetings, workshops, etc.

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Thank you for your attention!• eTwinning Portal:

www.etwinning.net

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