Evolving eTwinning

Anne Gilleran

PDW Ischia, 17 October 2008

A History lesson!

2005 - Officially launched in January

2007 - Officially Integrated into the Life

Long Learning Programme

2013 - Due to run until this dateNow an accompanying measure to the Comenius programme

What is ?

?

Official Definition

eTwinning is a portal :

• Which takes advantage of the possibilities offered by the Internet and digital media

• to promote European school cooperation, collaborative learning and project based pedagogy.

• eTwinning does not finance single projects but supports them by offering tools and support.

Re-examine this sentence

To promote:

European school cooperation

Collaborative learning

Project based pedagogy.

Assumption

That teachers can only do these through project work

What has happened since 2005?

1. The Internet has changed

Web 1.x– Passive– Read the news– Retrieve information

Essentially an online encyclopedia

Interactive & Creative Web 2.0

- make the news- publish ideas- create archives- comment on events- communicate

At the Technet Summit in November 2006, Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix, stated a simple formula for defining the phases of the Web:– “ Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average

bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.

Since 2005

February 2004

January 2005

February 2005

October 2006February 2004.

20061999

2005/06

April 2006

What has happened in eTwinning since 2005?

16 October 2008: 45643 active members

Active project run at approximately 10% of this figure

September 2005 7000 teachers registered

Networked World

eTwinning is not just about projects.

Projects are the outcome of a much larger process

The process of community Social Networking

Image of the network of connected eTwinning schools

What is the future?

Teachers connected in groups 2008/2009To collaborate and create together within and outside formal projects

–European eTwinning ambassadors–Maths & Science teachers–School Leaders–Creativity

2009

Online learning– eTwinning learning events– Professional development on line– communities of practice based on pedagogical

resources

eTwinning continues

To be supportive and offer opportunity for professional development

To be connective & non bureaucratic

To offer recognition

To have built in quality assurance at national and European level in the form of Quality Labels

And

It still costs nothing!

Digital Natives?

In this fast evolving world there are no natives!

Over to You!

Thank you for your attention

anne.gilleran@eun.org

http://www.etwinning.net