When you need to innovate, you need collaboration...

Twinspace and

Collaboration in

eTwinning projects

Maria Melessanaki Ambassador

Heraklion & Lasithi

Maria Scordili

Chania & Rethymno

A welcome message from a robot

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1. register

2. Go to the partner forums on

etwinning live. There you can

check the idea proposed by

other teachers. Or you have

the opportunity to post your

own ideas.

3. Contact some other teacher

and check their availability

working with you.

4. Looking for more colleagues

on the PEOPLE section and

send contact request.

5. When they accept your

request then you are ready to

start the project that you have

already create with one more

teacher founder

6. Then you invite your

colleague to be your partner

in that project.

7. After that, you are waiting for

the project to be approved by

national support service of

both admin countries.

When the project is approved then you are ready to get in on your own twinspace

How we can have our own twinspace?

10 steps for a successful project

1. Create: a detailed schedule of your activities. Deadlines of your activities considering holidays in each school

2. Decide: In collaboration with your colleague what activities you will organize and which web tools you are going to use

3. Agree: upon the netiquette rules together with your project partners and publish them on the twinspace

4. Inform: your head teacher other colleague and invite your pupils on twinspace

5. Plan: Your twinspace with care and create pages, for each of the activities you will organize with the short description of

the top of the page.

6. Use: The twinspace communication tools: twinmail, teacher bulletin, discussion forums

7. Add: A regular live element, chat or live event.

8. Integrate: Collaborative activities into your eTwinning projects learn the students up in transnational groups and assign

roles or team your students up, according to their interest and talent. Try to have a concrete outcome as a result of

collaborative work for example an ebook, video or shared story.

9. Provide: encouraging your pupils to comment on each other’s work. Integrating ongoing assessments activities,

updating the public journal with new activities introduced or one accomplished and asking students to comment on their

experience there

10. Get: Recognition of your project forward for awards, and prizes and promote your project on the web site of your school,

your school community and at different educational event.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 1. Choose a partner of the project and send a message to his timeline. Include in this message a picture.

2. Create a pupil account and give him admin rights.

3. Login with pupil codes and create a page.

4. Send an invitation to a guest.

5. Delete the guest and the pupil.

6. Create a forum and start a conversation

7. Create a page and insert a table with 3 columns and 3 lines

8. Leave a message on the project journal.

9. Leave a message on a teacher bulletin

10. Add an image and a YouTube video on Twinspace

Collaboration is like carbonation for fresh ideas.

Working together bubbles up ideas you would not have

come up with solo, which gets you further faster.

Evaluate your knowledge on

twinspace with a quick quiz

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