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.
During the entire month of October, be sure to participate in the eTwinning Weeks activities which are now taking place across Europe!
To celebrate the new school year, eTwinning is again running its annual “eTwinning Weeks” campaign. Get involved, meet new colleagues and get started on a new eTwinning activity for the year!
For the entire month of October, you can take part in various competitions, training opportunities and events organised at European level through the eTwinning Portal as well as within your own country through your National Support Services.
European activities: Have a look and participate in activities organised by the Central Support Service.
- Recommendation raffle: get a colleague to register to eTwinning and you could win a prize!
- Resource-building competition: contribute to the Desktop’s new “Resources” area and you could win a prize!
- Video competition: create a collaborative project video and you could be on screen at the 2010 eTwinning conference in Seville.
- Online training sessions: learn about helpful online tools by participating in a session run by eTwinning coordinators and experts.
- Starter project activity: get inspired and working right away by joining an eTwinning started project run by an expert eTwinning teacher.
- “eTwinning Groups” poll: request themes for the launching of a new community service called eTwinning Groups.
- Creativity questionnaire: Tell us about your impressions of creativity in education and you could win a trip to the final creativity conference in Stockholm.
- Drawing competition: have your pupils get to know their partners by making collaborative drawings using an easy online tool. The best drawing will receive a prize!
The new eTwinning Portal was launched at the beginning of October 2008.
It has various new features and others that have also changed a bit, especially in its appearance. These changes include more web 2.0 tools. Apart from offering more tools to the registered eTwinner, the new portal also offers the possibility for non-registered viewers to get to know more about eTwinning and what it is about before registering. Here are some notes which you can find handy to use this portal.
Notes by Josephine Ebejer Grech & edited by Jeannette Cardona
Ms.Mariana Popa, of Daneasa, Romania, would like to start an eTwininning Project about Water. Together with her team of teachers she has been working on this theme for the last 2 years and she is now ready to embark on an eTwinning Project. Ms.Mariana writes:
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