Workshops

Learners voice

Audacity: free software. You need a computer and a microphone. Don't forget to use pod-safe music. We made a small podcast and published it on http://www.andeducation.co.uk/Loudblog/

Navigating the Portal

http://www.eTwinning.net

3 levels to eTwinning Portal

Level 1: Information, ideas, examples. Sign up for eTwinning

• Practice examples,
  
• Ideas and kits
  
• News from Europ
  
• Pedagogical guidelins
  
• Practical guidelines
  
• Newsletters
  
• Registered shcoolsande partnershios (Map)
  
• Recognition and quality
  
• Support
  

  
   

Level 2: Private to individual – My desktop. Find partner, discuss your partnership

• Desktop tools
  
  • Partner finding
    
  • Editing profile
    
  • Twinfinder
    
  • Chats
    
  • eTwinning learning resources
    
• Face-to-face meetings
  
• Both schools must be registered
  
• Partnerschool must be added to My candidates
  
• One of them registered the partnership
  
• The other must accept the partnership
  
• They both get the eTwinning label
  
• Mutiple Twinning
  

Level 3: Private to the parnetrship – Twinspace. Work together, Progress Card, Leaving Resources, tools. Quality Label, eTwinning Awards.

What is the TwinSpace?
The Twinspace is a virtual classroom

Why should you use the Twinspace?

• Its Multilingual (22 languades)
  

How to use the TwinSpace

• As a staffroom
  
• As a classroom
  
• Portfolio
  
• Showroom
  

Calendar

• To set deadlines for exchanges
  
• To mark school holidays or examns
  
• To highlight important dates
  

Bulletin Board

Communicate

• Chat
  
  • Onlinediscussion in real time
    
  • Access at any time
    
  • One-to-one or class to class
    

Mailbox

Forum

Folders

Web page

File archive

Public Twinspace

• Make public the outcomes of the project
  
• Motivating for pupils
  
• Searchable on the European eTwinning portal
  
• Safety (picture, names)
  
• Write down and send around the correct url
  

 

How to use Internet SMART

www.slideshare.net/jaoverla

http://jaokurs.wikispaces.com

http://jao.typepad.com

Web 2.0

Students are there, but where are we?

What is typical about Web 2.0. It makes us not consumers but producers.

• Usergenerated content
  
• Remixing
  
• Comments
  
• Tagging
  
• Social network
  
• Easy to share
  
• RSS
  

www.teachertube.com

Video – youtube, google videos

Sound – podcast

Bookmarks – Del.icio.us, Blogroll

Mindmapping – Mindomo, FreeMind

Picture – Flickr, Picaza

Text – Blogg, wiki, googledoc's

Social networks – MySpace, Facebook, Ning, Iinkedin

Why Google?

"What's good about a search engine that brings me 324909188 hits. It says: "Good news! We have located what you are looking for. It is on the Earth."

RSS

What is RSS?

What can I use this for? Let information com e to you instead of searching for information.

www.netvibes.com

www.news.google.com

 

Let their voices be heard
Sharon Tonner

Does school reflect the childrens outside world?

Does school embrace web 2.0?

Does school present an audience?

Does school enable collaboration outside the school walls?

Voices of the world – http://votw.wikispaces.com

http://juniorschool.wikispaces.com - 8 random facts about themselves

http://votw.wikispaces.com/etwin