eTwinning for Comenius!

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• eTwinning for Comenius!
• Hellenic Ministry of Education
• Hellenic National Support Service of eTwinning

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Scenario / Case study

• Three (or more) schools from different
  European countries are working on a Comenius I
  collaborative project.
• Benefits meeting a new culture, team work and of
  coursetransportability
• Difficulties arisen lack of a common
  communication platform to work with
• Proposal eTwinning action of eLearning Programme

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eTwinning and Comenius

• By combining eTwinning with Comenius
• With one collaborative project you can take part
  in two European Programs, without further effort
• You can communicate and collaborate instantly
  with each other, through a pool of varied
  eTwinning tools
• You also become member of the wide network of
  eTwinning European schools (above 9.000 schools
  at the moment)
• Finally, you can take part in the National and
  European eTwinning Awards with lots of grand
  prizes!

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How-to Comenius schools in eTwinning

• 1. 2 schools (lets name them leader schools) of
  the Comenius consortium register for eTwinning
  
• 2. Leader1 school seeks for the Leader2 school in
  the eTwinning database of registered schools
  (Twinfinder)
• 3. Leader1 registers a partnership with Leader2
• 4. Through TwinSpace, the two leaders invite all
  other schools of the Comenius consortium to join
  the eTwinning partnership
• 5. From that moment on the Comenius schools can
  communicate with eTwinning tools!

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1st step Leaders register for eTwinning (1/2)
In order to join eTwinning and use its tools the
registration of your school is required
electronically at http//www.etwinning.net The
eTwinning portal is a complete partners finding,
communication and collaboration portal,
translated in all languages of the 27
participating countries.
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Leaders register for eTwinning (2/2)
During the registration of your schools you have
to provide information on you, Registrant Data,
Twinning preferences, School Data and the school
profile.
In the Registrant Data form youll provide a
username and a password, which you will be using
from now on to have access to the special
eTwinning platform.
In the Twinning preferences form, provide the
theme, a description and the communication
language of your partnership. These info will
have to comply with your Comenius project.
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2nd step Seeking for the other leader (1/3)
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Seeking for the other leader (2/3)
One of the leader schools, suppositively Leader1,
must find Leader2 in the schools Database of
eTwinning to twin up with. This is done by
Twinfinder.
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Seeking for the other leader (3/3)
When you find your Leader2 school, you have to
add it to your My Candidates list, which is a
list of your possible partners to twin up with.
This is done by clicking on the icon
of the column Actions.
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My Candidates list
1- Assuming that you have found Leader2 and have
added him to your Candidates, you can see your
Candidates list by clicking on the .
2- With icons you can send a message to your
partner or organize a chat.
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3- One of you must register the eTwinning
partnership. This is done by clicking on the icon

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3rd step Registering your partnership
As long as you find Leader2 and add him to your
Candidates list, you have to register your
partnership by clicking on the icon beside
the entry of Leader2 in your Candidates list.
Describe briefly your partnership in the
registration partnership form.
After you submit the partnership, Leader2 will
receive an email to verify the partnership.
Thereinafter, the NSSs will receive your request
for partnership and approve the request within a
week. This is it! You are officially granted
with the eTwinning label!
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Other Functions of your eTwinning desktop

• Your desktop is the starting page for all your
  eTwinning communication and collaboration
  activities. From your eTwinning desktop you can
  access
• Your Profile For changing your profile or your
  password
• The Chat or your Mailbox For communicating with
  other partners
• Your TwinSpace A private workspace for the
  twinned partners only, a user friendly Content
  Management System, where you can exchange
  archives, share a forum, a bulletin board, a
  calendar, have a chat and also invite schools or
  persons to this restricted area!
• Your Progress card In order to record and
  monitor your projects evolution
• Your eTwinning label All registered schools with
  an eTwinning partnership are granted with this
  official document

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eTwinning Collaboration tool TwinSpace

• Mailbox
• Forum
• Chat
• File sharing
• Web pages
• Calendar
• Bulletin Board
• My team
• Members Rights

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You can find further info and tool guides
at http//www.etwinning.net And for Hellenic
schools also at http//etwinning.sch.gr
Thank you!