eTwinning Learning Events are short intensive online events on a number of themes. They are led by an expert and include active work and discussion among teachers across Europe.
The idea of a Learning Event is that it is a short intense course that offers you an introduction to a topic, stimulates your ideas, helps develop your skills and does not require a long-term commitment in terms of your time. It is also designed to be an enjoyable learning experience.
Each learning event lasts 4-5 days of active work and discussion, followed by 4-5 days of reflection and personal work. The materials are online and you may access them during your own time.
How to participate? The application for each event is open to all registered eTwinning teachers, approximately one week before the event begins. The link is on your Desktop, so just log in to fill in the online form. If you are not yet registered do so now then follow the link on your Desktop.
All events take place in the eTwinning Learning Lab. Continue reading ‘eTwinning Learning Events - Spring 2010′
eTwinning will soon restart its online learning events. Applications will be open about 10 days before each event is due to start. You will find a link on your eTwinning Desktop. You will be asked to fill out an application form and a few days before the event begins, you will receive your special login and password to the Learning Lab Area.
One of these learning events will be presented by a Maltese Kindergarten Assistant, Ms. Miriam Schembri, an experienced eTwinner and this year’s eTwinning European Award winner.
Continue reading ‘eTwinning Learning Labs’
On the 26th of February, 2010, eTwinning Malta is organising a seminar about the new TwinSpace, the collaborative workspace for registered eTwinning Projects. The seminar is open to Teachers and Kindergarten Assistants, in Primary and Secondary schools, who are currently taking part in an eTwinning Project, registered during Scholastic Year 2009-2010. This is due to the fact that the new TwinSpace is available only to those projects which have been registered during this year. An eTwinning pack will be handed out to participants. The seminar will be delivered by Ms.Marianne Schembri, Malta’s Ambassador for eTwinning.
Download the official CMeLD Circular: cmeld-14-twinspace-seminar-for-etwinners
Continue reading ‘CMeLD 14/2010- TwinSpace Seminar for eTwinners’
The Curriculum Management and eLearning Department is offereing a number of free eLearning courses for teaching staff in Malta and Gozo during the present scholastic year. Circular CMeLD 250/2009 has been sent to all schools with the list of courses available. There is a variety of courses from very basic computer awareness to more technical or advanced courses.
One of the courses offered is the eTwinning course called: eTwinning: Online Collaborative Projects. This is a blended course consisting of 6 face to face sessions at the eLearning Centre Labs and 2 online sessions using videoconferencing. The main aim of this course is of helping teachers to collaborate with European teachers using innovative methodologies. Apart from dealing with the eTwinning Portal and its tools, this course will also cover working with digital still images and digital videos, digital animations, presentations, free online authoring software and audio and video conferencing.
Many other courses could be useful for those interested in using ICT within their project work, including eTwinning projects. For more information about this course kindly contact Ms.Tania Gatt on 25982167.
The Curriculum Management and eLearning Department is offereing a number of free eLearning courses for teaching staff in Malta and Gozo during the present scholastic year. Circular CMeLD 250/2009 has been sent to all schools with the list of courses available. There is a variety of courses from very basic computer awareness to more technical or advanced courses.
One of the courses offered is the eTwinning course called: eTwinning: Online Collaborative Projects. This is a blended course consisting of 6 face to face sessions at the eLearning Centre Labs and 2 online sessions using videoconferencing. The main aim of this course is of helping teachers to collaborate with European teachers using innovative methodologies. Apart from dealing with the eTwinning Portal and its tools, this course will also cover working with digital still images and digital videos, digital animations, presentations, free online authoring software and audio and video conferencing.
Many other courses could be useful for those interested in using ICT within their project work, including eTwinning projects.
This year we are also launching two other blended courses (some sessions in the lab and some online). These are:
- Collaborative Applications in the Classroom - creating a classroom wiki and using other online applications such as online slide shows, online poster makers and other widgets which can be embedded in the wiki.
- Stop Motion Animation in Education - integrating the use of ICT and new digital media through the creation of digital animations.
Continue reading ‘Courses in eLearning’
Two courses are being held this summer entitled eTwinning: Online Collaborative Projects. These courses, among many others, are being organized by the Curriculum Management and eLearning Department and are being held at the eLearning Centre’s labs in Floriana.
The eTwinning course will give a detailed overview of the eTwinning portal and help teaching staff to enrol in this action, find European partners and start off collaborative projects. It will also run through a series of free online applications one can use to make collaborative projects more interesting and innovative.
The course is based on 8 sessions; 6 at the eLearning Centre, and 2 virtual meetings. A course wiki will also be available for participants where they will have each session’s outline and resources including video tutorials, samples and notes. Each session has a number of tasks to practice the applications mentioned during the meeting.
Course certification will be given upon 75% attendance. This includes active participation in at least one of the virtual meetings and participation and collaboration in each session’s tasks.
The first group meets on Wednesdays from 13.30 till 16.30 and started on the 15th July, whilst the second group meets on Mondays from 9.00 to 12.00 and will be starting the first session on the 3rd August. Anyone wishing to join this group is still welcome. If interested please contact Jeannette Cardona on jeannette.cardona@gmail.com.
Last week marked the end of the eTwinning evening course 2009. During the last class session on the 23rd March, a virtual closure meeting was organized through FlashMeeting for the 1st April 2009.
FlashMeeting is a free online conferencing application, which allows a group of people to meet from anywhere in the world through an internet connection. The meeting is pre-booked by one of the users and a link, containing a unique password for the meeting, is then passed on to all participants. For Maltese teachers, to book a FlashMeeting event, send an email to Rose Anne Xerri on roseanne.xerri@gov.mt. It is important to give the following information to book the meeting: school, school telephone number, teacher’s name, date of conference, time and duration of the conference, a title for the conference and the number of participants for the conference.
Continue reading ‘eTwinning evening course 2009′
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