On the third day of the eTwinning National Conference and Embed 2010, three more workshops were set up for teachers in the afternoon.
Ms. Amanda Debattista, eTwinning NSS, delivered a workshop called eTwinning for Primary Schools, in which the participants went through a review of the eTwinning portal and desktop and were given the opportunity to share and discuss projects they carried out during the year. On the second part of the workshop the participants were able to work with three online applications: Glogster, Sketchfu and Voki.
Ms. Marianne Schembri, eTwinning Ambassador, held a workshop about The New TwinSpace and VideoConferencing. She showed how to manage pages and how to upload material in the new TwinSpace. In the second part of the session Elluminate was used to show the participants how to make a video conference with project partners abroad.
Ms. Mary Vassallo, Smart IWB trainer, held another workshop about The Use of the Smart Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom for beginners.
These three workshops were the last from the number of teacher-training workshops offered to teachers during the eTwinning National Conference and Embed 2010. From evaluations given by participants, all the workshops were considered useful and of great interest.
Pupils started arriving at the the Grand Hotel Excelsior at 9am for their workshops and to visit the exhibition. Today we also had a great number of Maths students visiting since the Maths Department organized a presentation of the Maths awards to their students.
After this presentation, the students with their teachers visited the Maths exhibition stand, all the college stands, the eTwinning stand and the Microsoft stand.
Other students were taking part in a variety of workshops as you can see here.
Beebot workshop
Wii workshop
Lego Minstorms NXT workshop
Design & Technology workshop
Smart Interactive Whiteboard workshop
Lego WeDo workshop
Promethean Interactive Whiteboard workshop
At 3.30 teachers arrived to the teacher-training workshops organized by eTwinning. Three workshops took place this evening, Online Collaborative Projects for Language Teachers, The Use of Smart Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom for Beginners and The Use of Promethean Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom for Intermediate / Advanced Users.
The eTwinning National Conference 2010 started off this morning at the Grand Hotel Excelsior as part of the Embed 2010: Best Use of ICT events. The exhibition stand has been put up on Monday and Tuesday with many resources various teachers taking part in eTwinning sent us. A section of the eTwinning stand is also dedicated to the 5th anniversary of eTwinning and includes all the birthday cards sent by pupils to commemorate the 5th of May 2010.
The first activity running on the eTwinning stand was a videoconference with a group of students from St. Benedict College, Sta Lucia Girls Secondary communicating with a group of students from the Istituzione Scolastica Comunità Montana Mont Rose A in Pont Saint Martin, Italy with their teachers, Prof. Cristina Sibilio and Prof. Donatella Camizzi. An Italian eTwinning ambassador, Prof. Costantino Soudaz, from Isitip Verrès in Verrés, Italy was also present for the videoconference. The students presented themselves and then asked and answered some questions. Another videoconference took place with a group of pupils from St. Theresa College, St. Venera Primary who communicated with a school from Yester Primary School, East Lothian, Scotland.
The Director for Curriculum Management and eLearning visited the exhibition and ongoing workshops.
During all the day, various groups of students and pupils came to our stand to see the Easi-scope and Easi-talk activity taking place. Ms. Miriam Schembri, eTwinning Ambassador and KG Assistant at St Thomas More College, Fgura Primary A, showed visitors how to use and explore little objects and insects with this hand held microscope and to record videos of what they see through it. The participants were also asked to relate what they learnt using the Easi-talk to record their thoughts.
Other visitors took a look at all the resources exhibited on our stand. Amongst these, the Mosta pupils who participated in an eTwinning project and sent us their material, came by and were so pleased to see what they had made. This creates visibility for their work and they were very proud of it.
In the afternoon, eTwinning delivered the first two teacher-training workshops, eTwinning for Beginners and Using the Promethean Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom for beginners, delivered by Jeannette Cardona and Reuben Schembri respectively.
eTwinning National Support Service is proud to add 2 more Interactive Whiteboard Training Workshops, this time on Promethian Interactive Boards. The training will be held on Wedneday 19th and Thursday 20th of May, 2010. More details are listed below:
You can also still apply for the other workshops available:
1. eTwinning for Beginners
2. eTwinning & Collaborative Projects for Secondary Schools
3. Online Collaborative Tools for Language Teachers
4. Using the SMART Interactive Whiteboard for Beginners
5. eTwinning & Collaborative Projects for Primary Schools
6. eTwinning TwinSpace and Videoconferencing
7. Using the SMART Interactive Whiteboard in the Classroom for Intermediate / Advanced Users
Applications are to reach etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt by 10th May 2010.
Teachers interested in applying for one or both workshops are to send an email to etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt with name, surname, school, subject / year group taught, personal email address and contact number (tel / mob) or call Ms. Jeannette Cardona or Ms. Amanda Debattista on 25982150 / 79002150. Applications are on first come, first serve basis to a maximum of 15 participants per workshop for individual attention.
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