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To celebrate the 5th birthday of eTwinning, be sure to do something exciting on 5 May in your school and community.

eTwinning was launched in 2005 and already 5 years on, it’s an amazing community of over 90 000 registered teachers in schools across Europe! To celebrate this great success and th special 5th anniversary year, the eTwinning team would like to invite you to join the party on the 5th day of the 5th month: 5 May!

Stay tuned for a special eTwinning anniversary website in mid April dedicated to this momentous event. Schools will be able to tag themselves on a map to show that they are organising something for the big day. Afterwards, all will be documented and shared!

How to celebrate?

While we wait for the launching of the anniversary website (which will be available from the eTwinning homepage), here are some ideas on what you can organise in your school and community on 5 May:

• An eco-friendly balloon release: release blue and yellow balloons across Europe at 12.00 CET. Guidelines and tips on how to make this exciting activity environmentally friendly will be provided.
• An eTwinning birthday cake: prepare a big celebration cake - or even a number of cakes! - in your school. Be creative and show Europe your decorating skills!
• An eTwinning birthday song: Working with your pupils (and perhaps with your partners?) prepare and sing/play a special eTwinning birthday song. This is a perfect opportunity to showcase great musical talent!

Be sure to take pictures, videos, audio recordings and write articles about what you are preparing so that we can collect and share all the stories on the anniversary website on the day as well as afterwards.

What else?

Apart from the activities mentioned above, which will take place all over Europe, the Maltese National Support Service is organizing some activities on a national level too.

• A Birthday card competition for students
• Teachers’ Video Competition

Birthday card competition for students
Students from primary and secondary schools in Malta and Gozo, who have experienced eTwinning during the past five years, are encouraged to participate in this competition. They have to create a birthday card to send to eTwinning for its 5th Birthday using any media they like. Hard copies of the birthday cards are to be sent to the eTwinning office at: eTwinning Malta, eLearning Centre, Great Siege Rd, Floriana VLT 2000 by the 5th of May 2010. Each card should be labelled with the name, surname, age and school of the participant. All the cards received will also be displayed on the eTwinning stand at the EMBED exhibition from the 18th to the 25th May 2010.

Prizes: The 3 Primary and Secondary students producing the best birthday cards will get an eTwinning pendrive as a reward. All the other participants will also be given an eTwinning token.

Evaluation Criteria:
• Theme - eTwinning’s 5th birthday - the card has to show what eTwinning is and that it is its 5th Birthday.
• Use of ICT - the card has to show that at some point ICT was used - software, hardware or both.
• Creativity - credit is given for how creative the card is

Teachers’ Video Competition
eTwinners who have done projects between 2005 and 2010 are called to celebrate their collaborative work by creating a video clip of all or any of the eTwinning projects they took part in. The length of the video clip should be of not more than 5 mins. Any video creating software is accepted. Each teacher can participate with only one video. Participants are to send their production or a link to its online version to etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt by not later than the 5th of May 2010.

Prize: The best two videos win an MP3 player or webcam.

Evaluation Criteria:
• Theme - Collaboration through eTwinning.
• Use of ICT - creative use of video creating software.
• Creativity - credit is given for how creative the video is.

Any other activities, teachers and students wish to carry out to celebrate this event are welcome. It would be greatly appreciated if the celebrations are documented by photos or articles to be put up on our national blog and on the eTwinning anniversary website.

For further details don’t hesitate to contact the National Support Service on 25982150/79002150 or etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt.