Archive for the 'Partner Finding' Category

Music Project - Maltese partner wanted

Natasha Djurkova, a teacher of 14-18 year olds from Bulgaria, is trying to form a group of teachers for a European Music project. Each country will exchange national music portraits and a CD with national music of participating countries. In April there will be a  music contest “Music Awards”. Each school will record a video clip FOR ONE national song performed by students. After voting, the best one will be rewarded with a trophey.

Anyone interested can find Natasha Djurkova on the eTwinning portal and contact her, or else contact the Maltese National Support Service, Jeannette Cardona (jeannette.cardona@gov.mt) or Amanda Debattista (amanda.debattista@gov.mt) for further information.

Partner for eTwinning project wanted

A very interesting project for primary schools will start next scholastic year. It is called Draw a Tale! Contact Magdalena Goc now to join this project!

The theme of the project is writing and drawing tales. The project will include children aged from 7 to 11. The chosen language is English. The main idea is that pupils form a team; write a tale together then draw the tale by creating a series of 5-10 drawings. Children will exchange drawings with partner schools and they will write stories about each other schools’ drawings.

The main objective of the project is to provide an opportunity for primary teachers and their pupils to establish a multilateral partnership and to develop a joint creative project.  We expect pupils to improve their ICT skills in order to learn, to communicate and to express themselves; to improve social skills, and the ability to use and apply creative thinking skills, to co-operate well as a team, to negotiate and mediate, to take initiative, responsibility and to make decisions, etc…published and public in twinspace.

All the stories written by pupils and the drawings and paintings designed by pupils will be collected in a booklet.

If you are interested in joining this project go to your eTwinning profile and look up Magdalena Goc and send her an email.

For more information and help you can contact the National Support Service on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt or on 25982150/79002150.

Good luck!

Mediterrenean diet and !!! - eTwinning partners needed

Rocco Spano, an Italian teacher in a secondary school, would like to start a new etwinning project coming September. The project should compare the mediterranean diet and !!!! It will start from a weekly diary for every season, a typical dish for every season and festvities. We can compare and analyse some food. If you are interested in this project you can find Rocco Spano in the partner finding section on your eTwinning desktop.

For more information you can contact the Malta National Support Service on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt or on 21502150/79002150.

Good luck!

eTwinning Groups are here!

picture_81Online Groups for eTwinners wishing to discuss and work on specific themes and subject areas have now been launched.

The following groups are open for membership right now. Joining could not be simpler! Read the following descriptions for the four eTwinning Groups that have been launched and then click on “Join“. This will bring you to a simple application form and in a short time you will be a member.

Join Here: http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ANAMJEMBC

More groups will be coming online soon. If you are interested in forming a group please write an email to groups@etwinning.net.

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Creative Classroom
Moderator: Irene Pateraki

eTwinning projects are ideal means to promote student’s creativity. Many teachers have already done a lot in this field. The “Creative Classroom” group is created to support teachers towards this direction: implementing creativity in everyday teaching and eTwinning projects in an effective and professional way. Teachers in this community will learn more about creative thinking, techniques, activities, games etc. Besides the educational material that is provided and updated on a regular basis, participants will share material and examples of good practice that they have already implemented in their projects. Learning in a community depends on the interactivity and sharing among the community members and this is one of the main objectives in order to end up with an online pedagogical guide about creativity!

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Social Inclusion
How to make everybody special in the inclusive classroom.
Moderator: Patrick Carroll

Welcome to the Social Inclusion team, we are a group of eTwinning Ambassadors who wish to support teachers with inclusive activities that encourage the whole community to participate and celebrate themselves and others. Our vision includes supporting children who are disadvantaged in anyway by linguistic, social or learning difficulties. We would love to have your ideas and skills to make the activities better, the group stronger and the experiences greater for us all.

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Maths & Science
Moderator: Palmira Ronchi

This group is aimed to explore different areas within maths and science teaching: how these subjects may be used in eTwinning, how we can learn techniques from each other, how we approach the pedagogy of maths and science in our daily work. We would love to hear your ideas and approaches and hope that it will be great learning experience for everyone involved.

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School Head Teachers
Many heads make work light!
Moderator: Anne Gilleran

The role of a head teacher in the eTwinning process has many aspects, to understand, promote, support, and guide. We hope in this community we can discuss the implications and effects of promoting eTwinning in schools and offer guidance and professional development that will be relevant to these various roles in relation to eTwinning.

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School Librarians
Moderators: Elisabete Fiel and Patricia Sambou

This group is for all school librarians who assist and support their colleagues in running European projects. We hope to pool our knowledge and resources to strenghten the service we offer to our schools. We will start with some group discussions and look forward to your ideas and comments.

eTwinning Project: The Environment, How it Effects People’s Lives - Maltese partner wanted

oldenMs. Melahrini Papardeli  is an English teacher from Greece and has just started a project called “The Environment and How it Effects People’s Lives”.  Ms Papardeli would like to add a Maltese partner to her project.  She writes:

“As we live close to nature (we live in small villages close to a beautiful mountain) we thought to create an environmental project which includes nature,tradition,customs and of cource people’s life. We named it “The environment and how it affects peoples’ life”. We believe that peoples’ lives are effected by the environment where they live.

The project will start by describing the place where we  live and the students will collect information and photos of the most characteristic places of their towns. Then we continue by finding the jobs that peoples’ did in the past - perhaps also finding old photos. After that we will work on tradition and customs. Finaly we will try to make a conclusion about how much  the environment affects peoples’ lives.”

Ms Papardelli’s students are 10-11 years of age. If you are interested in this project, go to the Partner Finding section of the eTwinning Portal, add Ms. Melahrini Papardeli to your contacts and ask her to take part in this project.  For more information about this or other projects, contact the eTwinning National Support Service on 25982150 or by e-mail on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt. 

Wedding in our Country - eTwinning Project seeking Maltese partners

maltese-weddingA group of teachers from Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey are currently doing a project about Weddings and are seeking to have a Maltese teacher to join them.  The project will deal with the bride, bride groom, the bride’s dowry, how people are invited to the wedding, traditional wedding costumes, traditional wedding food, bridal couple honour, wedding sayings, folk dance etc…

If you are interested to join this project contact the national support service on 25982150/79002150 or on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt for more details.

Letters and Postcards - French eTwinning Project - Partners wanted

frenchlogoThis project stems from a desire to motivate students with innovative and attractive methodology and to promote the development of a combination of skills that will enable them to face adult life. Students involved in eTwinning will learn to communicate in French language by selecting and using ICT for different forms of communication, making the European dimension of social cohesion and ability to work in groups realities of school life.

If you are interested in joining this project, log on to your eTwinning desktop and look up adriana mariagrazia cortese in the partner finding section to send her an email. For further help don’t hesitate to contact the National Support Service on 25982150 / 79002150 or etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt.