The Embed & eTwinning Awards Cermony
On Thursday, 28th May 2009, a cermony was held in the evening at the excelsior, where the Best use of ICT for the Embed Competition and the best eTwinning Projects were awarded.
Before the awards cermony, all the guests were invited to visit the exhibition which was being held. Even though there were no ongoing workshops as there were no pupils invited for the occasion, all the guests enjoyed the large amount of resources exhibited.
The Award giving cermony kicked off with a short video clip entitled “From the minds of the Learners across Malta and Gozo”. This clip had some snippets of various items the pupils worked upon during the Embed project.
Dr. Grace Grima officially opened the cermony and expressed her sincere gratitude to all the participants.
The eTwinning National Coordinator, Ms. Jeannette Cardona, gave a speech in which she mentioned what eTwinning has been done during this scholastc year and what the major plans for the coming year are. The eTwinning participants were also highly praised for the quality of their work . Mr. Raymond Camilleri - Director Curriculum Management and eLearning, honoured eTwinning by presenting the Quality Label certificates to these teachers. After this presentation it was time to award the best three eTwinning Projects in Primary schools and the best three eTwinning Projects in Secondary Schools. The first prize was a €250 voucher offered by Forestals. The second prize was a 3-in-1 printer offered by Intercomp and the third prize was a 3-in-1 printer offered by Smart Technologies.
Ms. Fabienne Ruggier was invited next to launch the Microsoft initiative of Partners in Learning which is a global initiative where teachers all over the world share innovative teaching and learning ideas.
The next feature of the programme was the Embed video. This was the work done by the Students’ Press. The had been interviewing organizers and visitors and recording videos of the exhibition and workshops and created a 5-minute clip to highlight the event.
Mr. Emmanuel Zammit made a speach to the audience where he showed how grateful he was for all the work done by the members of the eLearning Centre. He also stressed the fact that we all worked as a team and managed to organize a successful event. After the speech he invited Mr. Christopher Bezzina, Permanent Secretary and Mr. Raymond Camilleri, Director Curriculum Management and eLearning to award the best use of ICT in each year group in Primary Schools and the best use of ICT in Secondary Schools. These teachers were given a trophy and a certificate. Other prizes were digital cameras by Exigy, netbooks by Forestals and IMS and a professional experience in a school in the UK offered by Smart.
The permanent secretary, Mr. Christopher Bezzina closed the cermony with his speach of appraisal.
An informal reception was held afterwards.
The year 2009 is the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and Michael Purves, a Scottish eTwinner, came up with the idea of creating the “Schoolovosion2009″ Project. This project was open to primary schools from all eTwinning countries. Each participant country (thirty one in all) had to choose a song of their choice, video record it and upload it in the project blog using the video upload section within blogger. Songs had to be uploaded by the 8th of May so that each participant class had enough time to watch and listen to all the songs and vote for their favourite ones. My students watched and listened to all the songs on Monday 11th May.
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