Welcome to this eTwinning Partner Finding Webinar While you wait, you can check that you’ll be able to hear us by clicking ‘Tools’ – ‘Audio’ – ‘Audio Set-Up Wizard’ While you wait, you can check that you’ll be able to hear us by clicking ‘Tools’ – ‘Audio’ – ‘Audio Set-Up Wizard’ If you have time… 1)Click on image icon within the toolbar here 2)Select ‘Common Symbols’ 3)click on e.g. a drawing pin 4)Drag the symbol to where you live and teach 1 2 3
Transcript
Welcome to this eTwinning
Partner Finding Webinar
While you wait, you can check that
you’ll be able to hear us by clicking ‘Tools’ – ‘Audio’ –
‘Audio Set-Up
Wizard’
While you wait, you can check that
you’ll be able to hear us by clicking ‘Tools’ – ‘Audio’ –
‘Audio Set-Up
Wizard’
If you have time…
1)Click on image icon within the toolbar here
2)Select ‘Common Symbols’
3)click on e.g. a drawing pin
4)Drag the symbol to where you live and teach
12 3
eTwinning partner finding webinar 16th November 2012
eTwinning Partner Finding
Agenda
• Blackboard Collaborate tools
• Project planning document
• Tasks to define groups
• Partner finding exercise• Adding your partner as a contact• Discuss project planning document• Next steps (Register your project)
Nice to meet you
An Introduction to the eTwinning team
Karen Cleland
British Council (Belfast) Product Support Officer: East & West Midlands
Guitar player keen walker enthusiastic cook
Ni ce to m eet you
An Introduction to the eTwinning team
Rosalyn Kennedy
British Council: Belfast,
Writing, Painting, Mountain Climbing, general exploring
Nice to meet you
An Introduction to the eTwinning team
Yassen Spassov
Human Resource Development Centre (Sofia)eTwinning Project Coordinator
Finance, Music, Drum player
Blackboard Collaborate
The Basics
• Chat facility
• Vote
• Multiple choice
• Non-verbal communication tools• Text Tool• Common Symbols• Raising your hand
• Using your microphone
When you sign in you will see your own
name, as well as the names of the
moderator and the other webinar participants
Write your message in the text box and hit
enter
This is the chat facility where you can ask
questions and talk to other participants
Task 1
Use the Chat function to introduce yourself.
Hi, my name is… I am from….
Click the green tick for yes or the red cross for no
Task 2
Use the green tick or red cross to answer this question
Have you attended an eTwinning webinar before
now?
Yes
x No
Just click on the letter that corresponds to your answer
Task 3
Use the vote function to answer our poll…
How long have you been eTwinning?
A. Less than one month
B. Less than one year
C. More than one year
D. I don’t know
Click on the text tool and type your answer onto the whiteboard
If you have a question you can raise your hand
Task 4
Raise your hand if you l ike…chocolate!
To use your microphone and speak just click the talk button. Don’t forget to press it a 2nd time to put down the mic when you have finished
Use non-verbal tools to help us gauge how things are
going
Task 5If you’re still with us and
raring to go give us a smileyface!
Project Planning
Document
• Title• Short Description
• Languages
• Pupil's age
• How many pupils will participate in total
• Subjects Areas• Tools to be used• Aims
• Work process
• Expected results• Is your project based on a Project
Kit?
Partner
finding
exercise
Stage 1
Which age group is your project for?
A) Age 5-7
B) Age 8-9
C) Age 10-12
D) Age 13-15
E) Age 16-18
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Partner finding exercise
Stage 2
ROOM 2
B) Age 8-9
Partner finding exercise
Stage 2
ROOM 3
C) Age 10-12
Partner finding exercise
Stage 2
ROOM 4
D) Age 13-15
Partner finding exercise
Stage 2
ROOM 5
E) Age 16-18
Partner finding exercise
Stage 2
Adding
your
partner as a
contact
• Logging into eTwinning
• Searching for partner
• Sending contact request
View your contacts
Your Profile
Check that your partner for this
project is in your Contacts List
Search for your partner, click in to
their profile and click the add to Contacts
icon
Discuss project
planning document
Has everyone added their partner via the teachers
desktop?
Yes
x No
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
ROOM 1
A) Age 5-7
Discuss project
planning document
Title
Short Description
Languages
Pupil's age
How many pupils will participate in total
Subjects Areas
Tools to be used
Aims
Work process
Expected results
Is your project based on a Project Kit?
Going Forward
Next steps
• Registering your project
• Using your planning document
• Project Approval
Your Projects
page
Create your new project
Select the one partner that you want to set the
project up with
Project Description Page – these are details for the project
as a whole not just your school, you are writing on
behalf of your partners too so don’t be UK-centric.
Give your project a title. This should be agreed
with your partner(s)
A brief overview of your project. Try to explain
simply what your project is about
Tick the languages that you will use to communicate
Select the age range of students in the project and the overall number
of students involved
Select all the subject areas that the project
covers. From yours and your partner’s point of
view
Select the ICT tools that you will be using
Project aims – specifically what you are aiming the impact on your pupils to be. What skills they are going to enhance,
what areas of the curriculum are going to be enriched by working in this way
through the project
How are you going to carry out your project? What are you
going to do when? How are you going to collaborate and communicate together?
What outputs and outcomes are you planning to create
throughout and at the end of the project?
This is the Preview Screen. You can view and review all the
information that you just entered in the Project Description Page.
If you want to change any of the information at this point you can click on Change which takes you
back a step, but if you’re happy just click Submit.
Any questions?
.
Registering your project
Recap
1. Can you register a project
without a partner?
2. Do you need to think about
the end of the project when
I’m registering it?
3. Can you change your
project details before you
submit it?
Project Approval
At this point you are told your project is created but it will remain pending until firstly your partner
and then the National Support Services approve it.
You can find your project now in the Pending tab of your Projects
page.
You can view the current status of the project here. It will either be ‘waiting for partner approval’ or
‘waiting for NSS approval’.
At this stage you can Delete the project or
Edit the details
Your partner will have received a notification in their Desktop saying that the project has been registered and that you are waiting for them to
accept the project.
They will also be able to find it in the Pending tab of their Projects page and there they will have the
option to Accept or Reject the project.
Once your partner has approved the project it get’s sent to the NSS in each country for each of them to verify and approve (to check the
project is appropriate, well planned etc). This shouldn’t take more than
3 days.
Project approval
Recap
1. Does my project “go live”straight away?
2. Will my partner beautomatically e-mailed whenthe project is ready?
3. Do I need to contact myNSS to tell them about myproject?
