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eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Santi Scimeca Christina Crawley
eTwinning Conference Workshop Your eTwinning
The Portal
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Objectives of this workshop
Get feedback from real users about the current portal
Help conceive and design the new platform
Get feedback about the new ideas related to the new Platform
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
How does this workshop work?Part 1
Brief introductionIntroduction to the main features of the
current platform (portal, Desktop, Twinspace)
Groups discussion Feedback from groups
Guidelines are on the table
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Introduction to the main features of the new platform (Portal, Desktop, Twinspace)
Groups discussion Feedback from groups
How does this workshop work?Part 2
Guidelines are on the table
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
1. The Public Portal
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Key Elements of the Public Portal
• What is eTwinning?
• Registration area
• Who is involved? – Schools, projects
• Ideas and examples of good practice
• What’s new
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
2. The Desktop
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Key Elements of the Desktop
• Main aim: To find partners and register your project
– Use tools to find partners – Communicate with prospective project
partners– Manage your personal, school and project
details– Register your project
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
TwinFinder: To search for partners
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Forum: to post and answer
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Email: to send messages
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Chat: to discuss in real time
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Resources: share your work
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
My Candidates: to manage interesting possible partners, to register your projects
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
What else…
• Profile: To update your personal, school and project details
• Label: To access and apply for your eTwinning labels
• Progress Card: To share up-to-date information on the state of your project with your NSS and others
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
3. The TwinSpace
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Key elements of the TwinSpace
• Main aim: To provide your project with a customised online workspace
• To communicate (email, chat, forums)• To plan (calendar, bulletin board)• To post information (webpages, photo
galleries, files)• To publish and share
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
To plan: calendar, message board
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
To post: photos, files, text
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
To share: to publish
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
And now…
• What do you think about the Platform?
• In groups, take time to go over questions on either:– The Portal– The Desktop– The TwinSpace
Then let’s report back together!
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
The new Platform
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Map by country
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
New Desktop elements
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
New User profile
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
New TwinSpace Home
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
And now…
• What do you think of these ideas?• Do you have some more?
• In groups, take time to answer questions and discuss– The Portal– The Desktop– The TwinSpace
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Your feedback about..New Portal
• New layout
• Information accessible from the Home Page
• Information not important
• Something which is missing
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Your feedback about..New Desktop
• eTwinning Desktop as a social networking platform
• Your profile: share or not to share
• Widgets (podcasting, walls, etc.)
eTwinning Conference 2008 – 15 March 2008, Bucharest
Your feedback about..New TwinSpace
• TwinBlog replacing Progress Cards
• Share resources from TwinSpace
• Which collaborative platform you would like the TwinSpace to look like
• TwinSpace used for Groups: which ones would you like to have?