With reference to the Circular CMeLD 45/2010, the eTwinning National Support Service would like to draw the attention to all those who have ongoing eTwinning collaborative projects with partners from Europe that they need to apply for the eTwinning National Quality Label to be eligible to take part in the National Awards competition. The deadline to submit your application for the National Quality Label in order to participate in this year’s National Awards is the 16th April 2010. Only projects granted the National Quality Label during this scholastic year are eligible to take part in the National Awards 2010 competition. For more information about the Quality Label read more here.
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The eTwinning National Quality Label is a certificate granted to teachers with excellent eTwinning projects. This certificate indicates that the project has reached a certain national standard. Your project will be marked with the Quality Label logo so that anyone viewing it will know that this is a quality project.
Why should you apply for this label?
- The National Quality Label is a concrete recognition to teachers of high level of eTwinning activities. It also shows that the teacher has a commitment to quality and the ability to work collaboratively.
- This certificate will automatically give you the opportunity in taking part in the Annual eTwinning National Awards competition where the best collaborative projects will be awarded.
- Having this label will entitle you to be invited for the eTwinning National Awards ceremony for the presentation of a printed version of this certificate.
- If both you and your project partner are granted the National Quality Label, then you will also be granted the European Quality Label which entitles you to participate in the European Awards.
What are the criteria to be granted this label?
- Pedagogical Innovation and Creativity: Show how your project displays an innovative approach to teaching and learning and the creative ways you used to carry out the activities related to the project and to create the final product.
- Curricular Integration: Show how the project is integrated into the curriculum and which of its aspects it tackles.
- Collaboration between partner schools: Show how the project was planned between the partner teachers and the role of each partner. Show what kind of collaboration there was between the pupils taking part of the project.
- Creative use of ICT: State which tools and devices were used in the project and how they were significant for the accomplishment of the project results.
- Sustainability and Transferability: Show how the project could be expanded upon and how it could be used as a template for others to reproduce a similar project.
- Results and Benefits: Show what the outcomes of the project were and what the benefits were for the participants and their schools.
How can you apply for this label?
In the section My Projects on your eTwinning profile, you will find a link “Apply for Quality Label” in the middle column of your project. Click on the link and fill in the details requested. Once you submit the form, a copy will be sent to the Malta National Support Service for evaluation. You will be notified once you are granted this label or contacted if any of the criteria mentioned above have not been met.
The top three videos from the eTwinning collaborative video competition were showcased during the opening day of the eTwinning conference 2010 in Seville.
Two of the winning videos have a Maltese Partner! The Maltese winners are Mr. Saviour Tabone (Xewkija Primary) and Ms. Marianne Schembri (Fgura Primary A). Congratulations!
eTwinning is proud to announce that this year’s National eTwinning Conference will take place during the end of May. This year the conference will be held in collaboration with EMBED 2010 during a whole week where there will be an exhibition of all the eTwinning projects and other ICT related projects created by teachers and students from all over Malta and Gozo. During the exhibition week there will also be pupils’ workshops where they will use various software and innovative technologies. Specific teacher workshops offered by eTwinning will also take place after school hours for those interested to apply. Topics of the workshops and applications will be issued in April. The conference will culminate in an award giving ceremony for the best projects. eTwinning will also be awarding the best eTwinning projects for the scholastic year 2009-2010 in Primary and in Secondary schools.
There will be two competitions: The eTwinning Collaborative Projects Awards 2010 and The Best eTwinning Project Resources Awards 2010. Each competition will have two categories: Primary Schools and Secondary Schools. First prize winners in both competitions will represent Malta in the annual eTwinning Conference 2011 that will be held abroad. More details about further prizes will be given in due course.
Continue reading ‘eTwinning National Conference and Awards 2010′
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.
Continue reading ‘Malta Celebrates Triple Winning In Seville’
The eTwinning Annual Conference is now on our doorstep and will be celebrating the achievements of the best eTwinning projects carried out during 2009. The list of the finalists for the main three categories and the winners of the special categories is now official too. The winner of the Creative use of Digital Media Category is Schoolovision 2009 which was a project between 28 different countries. We are very proud to announce that Malta is part of this winning project too! The maltese teacher taking part in this project is Maria Antoinette Magro, a Year 4 teacher at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun GP Primary.
Schoolovision 2009 made use of a variety of digital resources to make a song contest between 28 countries, where each country had to vote the best song for Europe. Flashmeeting was used to make live conferencing among all 28 countries at the same time. These sessions were used among the teacher participants to plan the project first. Later on other Flashmeeting sessions were carried out during school hours where all the 28 classrooms involved could meet to get to know each other. Finally it was used to vote for the best song. All the songs were performed and videorecorded by the class children and uploaded in the Schoolovision 2009 blog for the rest to view. The winner of the song contest was a school in Brno, Czech Republic and the founder of the project presented them with a trophy.
This project has won many other awards. Many countries, including Malta, has awarded this project a National eTwinning award, but it was also awarded two other prestigious awards: The Global Junior Challenge 2009 award and the eLearning award 2009 for the Best Cross Border Cooperation in Europe.
Congratulations to all the members of this project especially to Maria Magro!
The eTwinning Diaries 2010 are out, and we have a limited stock available for grabs for teachers. All you have to do to receive your eTwinning diary is answer the following question:
The scholastic year 2009-2010 marks eTwininning’s special birthday: is it eTwinning’s 3rd, 5th or 10th birthday this year? Send your reply by e-mail to Ms. Amanda Debattista, at the eTwinning National Support Service, on amromica@gmail.com. But hurry - stocks are very limited and they will be given out on a first come, first served basis. Only one diary per teacher will be given out. Teachers who answer correctly will be asked to pick up their diaries from the National Support Services Office in Floriana in January.
Best Wishes from the eTwinning National Support Service 
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