Partner finding town twinning webinar 16.11.12 final

Welcome to this eTwinning

Partner Finding Webinar

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‘Audio Set-Up

Wizard’

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‘Audio Set-Up

Wizard’

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eTwinning partner finding webinar 16th November 2012

eTwinning Partner Finding

Agenda

• Blackboard Collaborate tools

• Project planning document

• Tasks to define groups

• Partner finding exercise• Adding your partner as a contact• Discuss project planning document• Next steps (Register your project)

Nice to meet you

An Introduction to the eTwinning team

Karen Cleland

British Council (Belfast) Product Support Officer: East & West Midlands

Guitar player keen walker enthusiastic cook

Ni ce to m eet you

An Introduction to the eTwinning team

Rosalyn Kennedy

British Council: Belfast,

Writing, Painting, Mountain Climbing, general exploring

Nice to meet you

An Introduction to the eTwinning team

Yassen Spassov

Human Resource Development Centre (Sofia)eTwinning Project Coordinator

Finance, Music, Drum player

Blackboard Collaborate

The Basics

• Chat facility

• Vote

• Multiple choice

• Non-verbal communication tools• Text Tool• Common Symbols• Raising your hand

• Using your microphone

When you sign in you will see your own

name, as well as the names of the

moderator and the other webinar participants

Write your message in the text box and hit

enter

This is the chat facility where you can ask

questions and talk to other participants

Task 1

Use the Chat function to introduce yourself.

Hi, my name is… I am from….

Click the green tick for yes or the red cross for no

Task 2

Use the green tick or red cross to answer this question

Have you attended an eTwinning webinar before

now?

Yes

x No

Just click on the letter that corresponds to your answer

Task 3

Use the vote function to answer our poll…

How long have you been eTwinning?

A. Less than one month

B. Less than one year

C. More than one year

D. I don’t know

Click on the text tool and type your answer onto the whiteboard

If you have a question you can raise your hand

Task 4

Raise your hand if you l ike…chocolate!

To use your microphone and speak just click the talk button. Don’t forget to press it a 2nd time to put down the mic when you have finished

Use non-verbal tools to help us gauge how things are

going

Task 5If you’re still with us and

raring to go give us a smileyface!

Project Planning

Document

• Title• Short Description

• Languages

• Pupil's age

• How many pupils will participate in total

• Subjects Areas• Tools to be used• Aims

• Work process

• Expected results• Is your project based on a Project

Kit?

Partner

finding

exercise

Stage 1

Which age group is your project for?

A) Age 5-7

B) Age 8-9

C) Age 10-12

D) Age 13-15

E) Age 16-18

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Partner finding exercise

Stage 2

ROOM 2

B) Age 8-9

Partner finding exercise

Stage 2

ROOM 3

C) Age 10-12

Partner finding exercise

Stage 2

ROOM 4

D) Age 13-15

Partner finding exercise

Stage 2

ROOM 5

E) Age 16-18

Partner finding exercise

Stage 2

Adding

your

partner as a

contact

• Logging into eTwinning

• Searching for partner

• Sending contact request

View your contacts

Your Profile

Check that your partner for this

project is in your Contacts List

Search for your partner, click in to

their profile and click the add to Contacts

icon

Discuss project

planning document

Has everyone added their partner via the teachers

desktop?

Yes

x No

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

ROOM 1

A) Age 5-7

Discuss project

planning document

Title

Short Description

Languages

Pupil's age

How many pupils will participate in total

Subjects Areas

Tools to be used

Aims

Work process

Expected results

Is your project based on a Project Kit?

Going Forward

Next steps

• Registering your project

• Using your planning document

• Project Approval

Your Projects

page

Create your new project

Select the one partner that you want to set the

project up with

Project Description Page – these are details for the project

as a whole not just your school, you are writing on

behalf of your partners too so don’t be UK-centric.

Give your project a title. This should be agreed

with your partner(s)

A brief overview of your project. Try to explain

simply what your project is about

Tick the languages that you will use to communicate

Select the age range of students in the project and the overall number

of students involved

Select all the subject areas that the project

covers. From yours and your partner’s point of

view

Select the ICT tools that you will be using

Project aims – specifically what you are aiming the impact on your pupils to be. What skills they are going to enhance,

what areas of the curriculum are going to be enriched by working in this way

through the project

How are you going to carry out your project? What are you

going to do when? How are you going to collaborate and communicate together?

What outputs and outcomes are you planning to create

throughout and at the end of the project?

This is the Preview Screen. You can view and review all the

information that you just entered in the Project Description Page.

If you want to change any of the information at this point you can click on Change which takes you

back a step, but if you’re happy just click Submit.

Any questions?

.

Registering your project

Recap

1. Can you register a project

without a partner?

2. Do you need to think about

the end of the project when

I’m registering it?

3. Can you change your

project details before you

submit it?

Project Approval

At this point you are told your project is created but it will remain pending until firstly your partner

and then the National Support Services approve it.

You can find your project now in the Pending tab of your Projects

page.

You can view the current status of the project here. It will either be ‘waiting for partner approval’ or

‘waiting for NSS approval’.

At this stage you can Delete the project or

Edit the details

Your partner will have received a notification in their Desktop saying that the project has been registered and that you are waiting for them to

accept the project.

They will also be able to find it in the Pending tab of their Projects page and there they will have the

option to Accept or Reject the project.

Once your partner has approved the project it get’s sent to the NSS in each country for each of them to verify and approve (to check the

project is appropriate, well planned etc). This shouldn’t take more than

3 days.

Project approval

Recap

1. Does my project “go live”straight away?

2. Will my partner beautomatically e-mailed whenthe project is ready?

3. Do I need to contact myNSS to tell them about myproject?

Any final questions?

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• Evaluation Form

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