A way to enter the eTwinning world?

Georgiadou Maria

Being fascinated by an eTwinning LE,

thanks to which I have learnt about

“ A hole in the wall” of Sugata Mitra,

I decided to create “my hole in

eTwinning”, by asking myself simple

questions, as he did!......

Etwinning is a successful story of European school collaboration. How can somebody have an idea of what it means?

From the number of registrations

From the number of projects

Let’s see the statistics!

It’s common for all the countries that:the number of registered users is much greater

than that of projects! Why?

You must have a project idea before searching for partners! ETwinners have the possibility to find ready made projects to use or to take ideas from

them. Let’s see how:

1) Project kits2) Project

gallery

Project kits: search by 12 thematic fields

Project Gallery

Three levels of projects: easy, intermediate, advanced. If an eTwinner wanted to start with an easy one, how

many easy projects would find in eTwinning?

41/10 ( that means that 10 out of 41 are easy)

10/2

16/3

36/748/11

27/10

23/4

1/-

4/-

36/17

46/12

26/9

Let’s have a look in every category

RESULTS

1) 75 out of 186 projects are “easy”2) You can have the same project in many fields.3) The same kit may be included in many different fields. For example, the kit “Young entrepreneur” exists in the follow categories: technology, languages, economics and entrepreneurship, culture. That means that the number of kits is

much smaller.

Asking people who attended eTwinning workshops if they started an eTwinning project, they answered:

3) I have no partner!

Although, many of them accepted to

participate to an easy project, started by a

new friend and old eTwinner!

1)I need time to understand

2) It’s too much things to manage!

What exactly is a project?

A project is an organized commitment of effort

to produce a defined outcome within defined

constraints of scope, time, budget, and quality

( Hertzfeld)

Let’s consider as easy project ,that commitment

of short effort, that provides the defined outcomes.

A project kit contains information about:1) Details (description of the project)

2)Pedagogical objectives 3)Process 4) Evaluation 5) Follow-up 6)Links

Finishing, I would like to make some more…simple questions:

1) “The beginning is half of everything” told Pythagoras.Are mini project kits the secret of being involved in

eTwinning?2)Would be useful to create some of them?

3)How to proceed?4)What about introduce this activity in the eTwinning

workshops?5) Could Ted –Ed be a source of inspiration to create project

kits?

These questions will be ,more or less, answered and presented very soon, in the

webinar for ambassadors.

Thank you for your

attention!