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Apply today for the eTwinning National Quality Label!

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This is the first step towards participating in the European eTwinning Prizes 2011 competition!

You must have a European Quality Label to participate in the European eTwinning Prizes 2011 competition.

How do you get at European Quality Label?

The first step is to have a National Quality label. Applying is very easy, just login to your eTwinning Desktop and fill out the online form.

What is the National Quality Label?

The National Quality Label is concrete recognition to teachers and schools of the high level of their eTwinning activities within their project work. For pupils and teachers, this offers a boost to their work efforts, and for the school in general, it is a public affirmation of their commitment to quality and openness in European collaborative work.

Please note: National Quality Labels are awarded to individual project partners only via their respective National Support Services. If you are applying for a label, encourage your partners to do the same in their countries, as you will then be eligible to receive a European Quality Label.

Learn more about the National Quality Label

How is the National Quality Label linked to the European Quality Label and the European Prizes Competition?

If you want to apply for the European eTwinning Prizes 2011, be sure to apply for a National Quality Label, because you can’t get a European Quality Label without it.

The European Quality Label is a pre-requisite this year to apply for the European Prizes. Partners who have not received a European Quality Label are not eligible to participate in the eTwinning Prizes 2011 competition.

Step 1: Apply for a National Quality Label
Step 2: Encourage your partner(s) to do the same!
Step 3: Check the Portal to see if you have been awarded with a European Quality Label (next round awarded automatically in October 2010)
Step 4: Submit your project in the European Prizes 2011 competition (submission opens in October 2010)

How do you get a European Quality Label?

If more than one partner receives a National Quality Label for the same project, these two or more individuals then automatically receive a European Quality Label. The European Quality Label is now awarded only once a year (every October).

Individuals who have been awarded with the European Quality Label are then eligible to submit their project to the eTwinning Prizes competition, which is also launched every October.

Remember: Only the partners in a European Prize winning project who have received a national quality label can participate in the rewards.

Learn more about the European eTwinning Prizes competition

Maltese-French eTwinning project wins in Malta and excels in France too!

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on June 18, 2010
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clairenevotThis year’s eTwinning National Collaborative Project Award winner for Secondary Schools, ‘The Other Side of the Coin‘, was selected amongst the best 100 projects in France. This project was founded by Mr. Mario Xerri, Gozo College, Girls Secondary School and Ms. Claire Nevot, Jean Vilar de La Courneuve College, France. Ms. Nevot was asked to present their project at the Innovative Education 2010 forum. A report and a detailed description of the project (in French language) were also written on the forum’s blog.

The members of the Malta eTwinning National Support Service would like to congratulate themselves with both teachers and their students for their successful project. Well done and keep up the good work.

Classes of Ms Janet and Ms Bondin graduate after eTwinning success

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cimg1211Ms. Janet and Ms. Bondin from St Thomas More College, Marsaskala Primary, celebrated their success in their first eTwinning project which placed third in the eTwinning Collaborative Projects awards this year. They organized a graduation cermony with their pupils, where each pupil was given a trencher and a certificate of participation.

 

More photos can be seen on their project blog.

 

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At a later date, the eTwinning coordinator for Malta, Ms. Cardona, visited the school and presented the children with a token to congratulate them for their participation.

eTwinning visit to Gozo College, Girls Secondary School

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The eTwinning National Support Service paid a visit to the winners of this year’s eTwinning Collaborative Project in Secondary schools to congratulate the students who took part in the project. The winning project was ‘The Other Side of the Coin’ by Mr. Mario Xerri together with Form 3 Liedna of Gozo College, Girls Secondary School. This project dealt with the students making research about different currencies around Europe and comparing their findings with their partner school in France. The students used powerpoint presentations to show their findings and emailed them to their partners. They also put up two videoconferences in which they also met and discussed the topic. All the students who participated in this project were given a token to remember their participation in this project.

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eTwinning Celebration at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun Primary GP

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The 16th of June, 2010 was a very special day for all the students at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun Primary GP.  The children of Year 4, Ms. Magro, held their annual eTwinning Celebration to share their eTwinning projects and activities with the rest of the school.  Present for the occasion was the college principal, Mr. Joe Buttigieg, and the eTwininning National Support Service team, Ms. Jeannette Cardona and Ms. Amanda Debattista.  The students’ parents were also invited for this special occasion.

Continue reading ‘eTwinning Celebration at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun Primary GP’

eTwinning Project of the Month - A Snapshot of Europe

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Year 3 pupils from Ms Catherine Bezzina’s class, St Ignatius College, Siggiewi Primary were the Maltese ambassadors for the eTwinning project “A Snapshot of Europe”. This is a project that involved the use of photography by primary school children across Europe. Children in all eTwinning countries were encouraged to take photographs of their local area under four categories: People, Places, Nature and Sports using either digital cameras, or mobile phones. Once each participating school had collected their pupils’ pictures, we needed to decide upon our favourite four pictures, one from each category. These were then put forward as our entry into the Europe wide contest which followed. All pupils in all countries were asked to evaluate the final entries, and vote, using the webcam conferencing tool, FlashMeeting, to decide the winning entries in each category from all over Europe.

It was an excellent Flashmeeting, where around 20 of the partner countries came together to vote online for their favourite pictures in each category.
All finalist photos, winning photos and recording of Flashmeeting can be viewed on the following site: http://snapshotofeurope.blogspot.com/

On the 5th May, Ms C. Bezzina’s class celebrated eTwinning’s 5th birthday at Siggiewi Primary and each pupil was  presented with a certificate of participation in the eTwinning project ‘A Snapshot of Europe’.

Partner for eTwinning project wanted

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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!