Motivation and engagement through international links

Helena ButterfieldHOD MFL St. Michael's RC School,

Billinghamwww.langwitch.co.uk

Why?

■ Celebrate different cultures■ Native speaker contact■ Authentic material■ Real audience■ Widens focus■ Motivation

DCSF International School Award

● Curriculum-based international work in schools.

● Open to all UK schools ● Free of charge.

Online Collaboration

● eTwinning (www.etwinning.net)● ePals ( www.epals.com )– really good if you

want an email exchange around the world.● Comenius (European-funded projects over 2

years) www.britishcouncil.org/comenius ● Connecting Classrooms (World-wide funded

projects) www.britishcouncil.org/conectingclassrooms

eTwinning

● 32 European countries ● ICT● European Commission’s partner finding and online ● Collaboration tool. ● All ages within education● Any length● Any curriculum area● Free!

Find a partner school

Submit your project idea for approval

Submit your project idea to your NSS (British Council)

Project kits

Project is approved and eTwinning Label awarded

Twinspace

●Similar to VLE

Ideas that have worked

Blogging project with France

Blogging project with France

shortlisted for the European eTwinning Prize and UK eTwinning Prize 2008/09

Wiki project (in English) with France, Italy, Turkey,

Romania, Poland

Wiki project (in English) with France, Italy, Turkey,

Romania, Poland

Project on our local area in German

Project on our local area in

German

Michel le Voyageur

http://michaeleneurope.wikispaces.comhttp://stmichaelsbear.posterous.com

The Rainbow Village Project

http://therainbowvillageproject.blogspot.co.uk/p/prizes-and-awards.html

Realtime communication

Twinspace Chatroom

●Online Chat

●Video conference

Realtime face-to-face communication

Awards and RecognitionQuality Labels: Recognition of outstanding projects from the UK NSS (British Council) and the European CSS (EU)

UK eTwinning AwardsEuropean eTwinning Awards

And finally…

“What you learn without joy, you forget without regret”Tiina Sarisalmi (Finnish Teacher, eTwinning Conference, Prague, Feb 2009)

More information

●The Langwitch Chronicles: http://helenabutterfield.net ●eTwinning: www.etwinning.net●British Council: www.britishcouncil.org●Twitter: @langwitch