Show and Tell eTwinning

eTwinning and MFL

Helena ButterfieldHead of MFL St. Michael’s RC SchooleTwinning AmbassadorLinks into Languages Trainerhttp://helenabutterfield.net helenabutterfield@gmail.com

Why?

• Celebrate different cultures

• Native speaker contact

• Authentic material

• Real audience

• Widens focus

• Motivation

What is eTwinning?

•Enables teachers, pupils and students in 32 European countries to work together using ICT.•European Commission’s partner finding and online collaboration tool. •Schools and colleges (working with pupils and students between the ages of 3 and 20) can register details, create a profile, search for partners and engage in online partnerships •Short or long term partnerships•Collaborate on a range of curriculum based projects in any subject area •No administration process or time restriction •Free!

www.etwinning.net

Register for eTwinning

Find a partner school

Submit your project idea for approval

Submit your project idea to your NSS (British Council)

Project kits

Project is approved and eTwinning Label awarded

Twinspace

• Similar to VLE

Ideas that have worked

Blogging project with France

Wiki project (in English) with France, Italy, Turkey,

Romania, Poland

Project on our local area in German

On going GCSE project with France

Realtime communication

• Online Chat

Twinspace Chatroom

Skype chat

• Video conference

Realtime face-to-face communication

Awards and Recognition

Quality Labels: Recognition of outstanding projects from the UK NSS (British Council) and the European CSS (EU)

UK eTwinning Awards

European eTwinning Awards

More information

• The Langwitch Chronicles: http://helenabutterfield.net

• eTwinning: www.etwinning.net

• British Council: www.britishcouncil.org

• helenabutterfield@gmail.com

• Twitter: @langwitch