All About Us
Project by:
Michelle Cauchi
Year 1
St Clare College Gzira Primary
All About Us is an eTwinning project founded in October 2009. This collaboration involves three European schools from Malta, Poland and England teaching children between 4-6 years. The target of this project is to share and exchange what happens in each country, school and class. Through this project the students are going to learn how to communicate, collaborate and share their ideas with other foreign students. In the initial stages of our collaboration we also decided to create our website: http://all-about-us-project.wikispaces.com/ to embed presentations, students’ work and communicate regularly with our 
eTwinning partners. We try to upload every event, holidays, outings, traditions, information about our country, school and class on our wiki. The students are active participants through the various activities that are done during this project.
Through this collaboration the students are learning to use various ICT tools such as taking photos with a digital camera, using sketchfu to build a story between the three eTwinning partners and communicate through video conferencing. During the project the students make crafts, creative drawings and different materials to exchange between them. From time to time we send a sample of the students’ work via mail packages.
We hang our work and receive material on notice boards so that parents can view all this and be informed on what their children are doing.
Mr. Wolfgang Fischer would like to invite a Maltese school to join them in their Comenius project. He says:
We want to start a Comenius project in Summer 2011. In the moment we are 7 schools from Poland, Romania, Denmark, Netherland, Greece, Spain and my school from Germany. We want to make a Preperatory Meeting in Novemer 2010 and all partners have joined projects before. The topics can be ICT, health, physical activities and we wait also for new ideas.
Students are in the age between 6 and 17 and from different types of school. If you need more information about the project, send me a email and I invite you to our homepage, since you need a keyword to view it.
If you would like to join Wolfgang Fisher you can look him up on the eTwinning Portal and send him an email, or send an email to jeannette.cardona@gov.mt to be given his contacts.
eTwinning is currently receiving applications for a new kind of award this year. Teachers who have been carrying out class or school projects using any digital resources and / or ICT tools can apply for the Best eTwinning Project Resources Awards 2010. APPLY TODAY!
This award is to showcase the teacher’s project in the Resources section of the eTwinning desktop. There is no need to have a foreign partner to participate. If you are already an eTwinner, all you have to do is log into your profile, go to the Resources tab and click on the Upload tab to upload your resources. If any resource is larger than 15Mb, you can use external repositories to host them and just upload a document with the link written in it. Then send the application form to etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt by the end of April 2010.
If you are not an eTwinner, but you have done a class / school project you can still participate! All you have to do is go to
www.etwinning.net and click on Register Now! to get a login and password for your eTwinning profile. Then follow the steps mentioned above to apply for the awards.
First prize winners in the Primary and Secondary section will represent Malta in the annual eTwinning Conference 2011 that will be held abroad. Other digital prizes will be given to the Best and Second Best Primary and Secondary Resources.
“Interesting Places around Me” is the name of the eTwinning project between San Gorg Preca College, Paola Primary B and Raimundo de Miguel School in Spain.
In this project our pupils are exchanging information about the village and the region they live in. They are writing about their favourite places in their village. They take photos and gather information and then use twinspace to upload their work for their counterparts to read. They have even talked about pre-historic temples, carnival and their school. In this way pupils are practising their English, learn about other cultures and enhance their ICT skills with the help of their teachers.
We tried to keep our project very close to our curriculum. We are using English as our means of communication thus our pupils are constantly using English, learning new vocabulary and enhancing their sentence structure. We have visited several historical sites in relation to Social Studies and pupils have written about them and uploaded power point presentations to show their friends what they have learnt.
It is satisfying to see pupils work in groups and decide who is to take photos, who is to write the report and who is to make a power point presentation. We are now in the process of using Photosynth to show our Spanish counterparts our school foyer and a section of the exhibits at the Armoury at the Grandmaster’s Palace Valletta. These are the links to these Photosynths:
School foyer: http://photosynth.net/edit.aspx?cid=B55AFDA5-BC8A-4A7B-A28C-71A1D85DBA53&firstview=1&wa=wsignin1.0
The Armoury: http://photosynth.net/edit.aspx?cid=7BB37BA3-96FF-4D98-A39B-F93DC1E5A9E0&firstview=1&wa=wsignin1.0
If you would like more information about eTwinning, registering to the Portal or starting off a project, please contact the eTwinning National Support Service on 25982150 or by e-mail on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt. We are always here to help 
‘With vegetables and fruit we grow healthy and cute’ is the name of an eTwinning project between St. Theresa College, St. Venera Primary and Szkola Podsatawowa Nr 5 in Radlin Poland. In this project children from both schools are sharing healthy recipes so as to promote healthy eating. On a regular basis the children prepare simple healthy snacks. With the aid of this project the pupils are becoming aware of the variety of healthy snacks that they can prepare themselves which can replace the usual junk food. When a cooking activity takes place photos are taken and then they are uploaded in the wiki: www.doriannespagnol.wikispaces.com for our friends and family too see.
The children are happy to be part of this project and they like the fact that
they have foreign friends. In fact during Christmas time the children exchanged Christmas cards and crafts and traditional food by post. Our Polish friends sent us apple chips and decorative rice paper and we sent them a small honey ring and two packets of ‘galletti’. For Easter we did the same thing. Once again the children exchanged Easter cards and Easter related crafts. We sent them a ‘figolla’ and they sent us healthy chocolates with yoghurt filling.
As an experienced eTwinner, Ms. Dorianne Farrugia would like to truly encourage teachers who have never tried eTwinning to pluck up the courage and try. She views eTwinning as wonderful experience to share teaching methods with a foreigner. It gives teaching and learning a whole new dimension and it is as fun for the children as it is for the teacher!
If you would like more information about eTwinning, registering to the Portal or starting off a project, please contact the eTwinning National Support Service on 25982150 or by e-mail on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt. We are always here to help
Ms. 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.
A 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.
All About Us is an eTwinning project founded in October 2009. This collaboration involves three European schools from Malta, Poland and England teaching children between 4-6 years. The target of this project is to share and exchange what happens in each country, school and class. Through this project the students are going to learn how to communicate, collaborate and share their ideas with other foreign students. In the initial stages of our collaboration we also decided to create our website: http://all-about-us-project.wikispaces.com/ to embed presentations, students’ work and communicate regularly with our 
eTwinning partners. We try to upload every event, holidays, outings, traditions, information about our country, school and class on our wiki. The students are active participants through the various activities that are done during this project.
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