Project work in the early years often involves children expressing themselves through pictures and drawings rather than through prose. Students may be asked to collaborate together on a particular drawing, and send it to their partners in another school or indeed another country, so that they (their partners) may also be able to work on it. In such cases, conventional paint packages such as TuxPaint and KidPix may not be altogether adequate. Enter Sketchfu, the online collaborative sketch/doodle maker, which makes collaboration not only possible but user friendly and fun, even for the youngest of learners. Sketchfu is an online (cloud) application, and can be found online on http://sketchfu.com.
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The eTwinning National Support Service organised a TwinSpace Seminar for teachers who are already engaged in eTwinning Projects. The seminar was held on the 26th of February 2010 at the eLearning Centre,
in Floriana and was presented by Ms. Marianne Schembri, eTwinning expert teacher and one of Malta’s Ambassadors for eTwinning. An eTwinning pack including a
printout of the New TwinSpace notes, a pendrive and eTwinning stationery was given to each participant. The Seminar was also open for those who could not physically attend to the meeting, such as Gozitan eTwinners, by means of a FlashMeeting video-conferencing link.
During this Seminar, the teachers were taken from the very first steps of the TwinSpace - logging in and inviting other members - to the actual collaborative building of this online space.
Each TwinSpace can be personalised with Activities (Pages), and each Actitivity can be shaped in any way that the teacher deems fit, by adding widgets and page elements such as blogs, wikis, online content from the Internet, image archives, etc. The teachers were also given some hands on activities to try out on their own TwinSpaces. After the Seminar, the teachers met for an informal get-together in the foyer.
Present for the TwinSpace Seminar were members of the eTwinning National Support Service,
Ms. Jeannette Cardona and Ms. Amanda Debattista, and the eLearning EO’s, Mr. Emmanuel Zammit and Mr. Vincent Carabott.
Mr. Rien Hazekamp of Driemaster school in Leiderdorp, The Netherlands, is looking for eTwinning Partners to start a project with a Maltese school. Leiderdorp is a Primary School and the year group interested in starting a project are 8-10 years old. Mr. Hazekamp writes:
“Hi! Our school is involved in three Comenius projects and one Leonardo. The school also has eTwinning contacts. We are now looking for new eTwinning Partners, for students aged 8-10 years old. The topics we are interested in are culture, geography and history. The main language for the proejct would be Enlgish”
If you are interested in striking a partnership with Driemaster school, do not reply to this post, but look up Rien Hazekamp in the Partner Finding section of the eTwinning Desktop, and add him as a friend in order to start communicating with him. For more information do not hesitate to contact the eTwinning National Support Service on 25982150 or by e-mail on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt.
Good luck with your project 
Ms. Carmito Leitão, a Primary school teacher from Mª do Carmo Leitãp, Várzea de Abrunhais, Portugal, would like to start an eTwinning Project called ‘Love our Planet’. Ms. Carmito has sent her project proposal to the National Support Service in Malta. She writes:
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A magical train leaves Romania to reach Malta, with magical dolls on board dressed in national costumes who then describe the flags, food, traditions of their country. The train’s destination is St. Thomas More College, Marsascala Primary School. The project has been teaching kindergarten pupils various subjects indirectly, like colours and shapes through flags, customs and manners through food and traditions. Music was also included through singing traditional songs in both our native tongue and English. The project has also helped to practice some pre-writing skills.
The two dolls representing Malta and Romania have been telling the class children about the national items, with the help of puppets/puppet shows.
Then digital images, videos and crafts of these encounters will finally be exchanged between the two countries thus making the children aware of the wonders of IT at such a tender age.
Our project has also been making children aware that inspite of cultural, geographical, racial differences, we are still One Earth, Different People! Visit our blog at
http://msjanet.wordpress.com.
eTwinning Malta is proud to announce that one of the winners of the eTwinning Prizes 2010 is a Maltese Kindergarten Assistant from St. Thomas More College, Fgura Primary A. Ms. Marianne Schembri has won the prestigious eTwinning Annual European Award in the 4-11 years category with the project, “Colours of Life”. The project partner is Ms. Ewa Kurzak from Poland. The news was announced during the annual eTwinning Conference which this year took place in Seville, Spain, from the 5th-7th of February 2010.
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