eTwinning UK

Twin for 2012

Keen to get your class exchanging views about the Games with friends all over the world? Look no further!

We can find you an international partner school, giving your pupils the chance to get in touch with their international peers and work together on joint projects.  You can cover any topic that interests you – how about starting out by swapping details of each other’s favourite sports?  Or why not ask your partner class about the Olympic and Paralympic stars from their country?  Make sure your pupils get the amazing opportunity to learn and share through an international school partnership. 

UK schools

If you’re in the UK, we will find you a partner school in one of the countries participating in the Games.  Simply register your details with us, including a short paragraph about your school and what you’re interested in working on.  We’ll do the rest! 

Schools outside the UK

If your country is participating in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, we will find you a partner school in the UK.  Simply register your details with us, including a short paragraph about your school and what you’re interested in working on.  We’ll do the rest!

Support with projects

Once you’ve found a partner, there’s a whole range of exciting projects you can do, and we’ve even got some templates to make it easy for you to get started – see our resources page for details.  We’ll also give you a dedicated online project space for you and partner to share information.  And you’ll get access to our online forums where you can swap ideas with other schools.  All you need to do is register your school. 

Register now - UK-France Partner Finding webinars!

 

UK – FRANCE

ONLINE EVENT

Participate from the comfort of your own home!

 

Click here to register 

 

 Do you?

Want to start a project with a French school?

Want to inspire your students with links to a French school.

 

Are you?

Teaching Secondary students (11-15)

Committed to finding a French partner

 

Can you?

Spare 3 x 1.5 hours to cement a bilateral relationship and design a project for your students

 

 Let us guide you through our partner finding forum and help you to start a project!

  

Event Objectives:

To find a partner school in France

To develop a class to class project

eTwinning portal training

 

 

 Schedule:

 Tuesday 6^th March, 4pm-5.30pm

UK only

INTRO to eTwinning and PORTAL

 

Tuesday 13^th March, 4pm-5.30pm

UK/France

PARTNER FINDING

 

Tuesday 27^th March, 4pm-5.30pm

UK/ France

PRESENTING PROJECT IDEAS

  

 

Webinar’s will be hosted by the UK & French eTwinning teams and are free of charge.

Please note that we require your commitment on all of the listed scheduled dates, as the program will only work if we have full participation. We cannot risk disappointing our French counterparts by registering anyone who is not able to provide this commitment.

Please register early, numbers are limited to 12 UK teachers.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me.

  

Rosalyn Kennedy | Project Officer | eTwinning | British Council

Norwich Union House | 7 Fountain Street | Belfast | BT1 5EA

Tel: 028 9019 2234 | Email: rosalyn.kennedy@britishcouncil.org

www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning

eTwinning and British Council Schools Online @ BETT, London 11-14 Jan 2012

Two British Council programmes - 'Schools Online' and 'eTwinning', were represented this month at the UK's largest education fair; the annual British Educational Training and Technology Show (BETT) at the Olympia in London.  The event attracted over 30,000 visitors (Bettshow, 2012) across four days,  proving that this show is a great testament to an exhilarating sector!  For the first time eTwinning Europe-wide had a stand of its own, where there was a packed programme of activities, including case studies from current eTwinners and demonstrations of the platform.    Experienced eTwinning teachers from across Europe were invited to present inspiring projects to other visiting teachers from across Europe, to help raise awareness of the eTwinning Programme as a free online community for over 150,000 teachers.  There were Representatives from the UK and 13 other countries at the eTwinning stand, which included staff from the European Commission (DG Education and Culture) and experts from the eTwinning Central Support and National Support Services.  The high footfall at both the eTwinning and Schools Online stands highlighted more than ever the benefits of getting practical guidance on the latest educational programmes and resources available.

Watch Video Clip            eTwinning Ambassador, Michael Purves presents his project 'Schoolovision'      digitalang interview Anne Gilleran, Pedagogical Manager for eTwinning

FREE eTwinning Professional Development Events: Germany 9–11 march / Malta 9–11 march 2012

 Do you teach 12-16 year old students? Are you interested in working with a team of colleagues from your school and other schools in Europe? Do you think that media education should be integrated into subjects, not isolated? Are you convinced that students benefit from cross-curricular learning?  If so, the UK eTwinning team is currently looking for teachers to come and meet other teachers from the eTwinning community to set up a collaborative eTwinning project in either:

GERMANY:  Our preference is to send a head teacher plus one other teacher (French or German speaking) from the same school.  We are limited to 8 participants for this event - 2 teachers per school.

OR 

MALTA:  Our preference is to send one teacher from the same school, consisting of 5 different schools.  We are limited to 5 participants for this event.

We are able to cover all travel, accommodation and meal expenses for this event, as well as the participation fee, however we cannot provide supply cover. 

To apply for either or both of these events, please click here.  Applications must be received before 1pm on Tuesday 24^th January 2012.  To register on eTwinning click here

If you have any questions regarding Malta please contact: Jenny.Compton@britishcouncil.org

If you have any questions regarding Germany please contact: Karen.Cleland@britishcouncil.org

 

Leeds Languages Conference, 27 Jan 2012

Please see the flyer for details of the great workshops offered at the conference!

Download Languages_Conference_Flyer_external

Deadline 16 January 2012: Comenius In-Service training

Want to undertake a professional development course, job shadow a colleague or attend a conference or seminar in any of the other 32 participating Comenius countries? A Comenius in-service training grant can help!

An in-service training grant can be used for one of three core activities:

Undertaking a professional development activity in another Comenius Country.

• Choose from a range of activities, including structured professional development courses, foreign language methodology courses and foreign language courses.

Job shadowing a colleague in another Comenius Country

• Job shadow a European colleague for a period of one working day to six weeks. The placement must relate to your professional responsibilities in the UK.

Attending a European conference or seminar in another Comenius Country.

• Attend a conference or seminar organised by a representative European association or network active in the field of school education.

In-service training grants are open to:

• school or college staff (either teaching or non-teaching staff) in the UK
• local authority staff working in school education in the UK
• unemployed teachers re-entering the profession in the UK
• staff in another specific area of child education in the UK

More information on how to apply here 

eTwinning Professional Development Workshops, Malta & Germany

Do you teach 12-16 year old students? Are you interested in working with a team of colleagues from your school and other schools in Europe? Do you think that media education should be integrated into subjects, not isolated? Are you convinced that students benefit from cross-curricular learning?

If so, the UK eTwinning team is currently looking for teachers to come and meet other teachers from the eTwinning community to set up a collaborative eTwinning project in either:

Event objectives:

 - To demonstrate best practice examples of cross curricular projects

- To find a partner school and develop a project or projects

- To develop a strategy for 'eTwinning teams' at your school

- To demonstrate multi-media software tools that you can use in your eTwinning projects

GERMANY:  Our preference is to send a head teacher plus one other teacher (French or German speaking) from the same school.  We are limited to 6 participants for this event - 2 teachers per school.  Participants will be from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and the UK

OR

MALTA:  Our preference is to send one teacher from the same school, consisting of 5 different schools.  We are limited to 5 participants for this event.  Participants will be from the UK, Cyprus, Malta and Denmark.

We are able to cover all travel, accommodation and meal expenses for this event, as well as the participation fee, however we cannot provide supply cover.

To apply for either or both of these events, please click here.  Applications must be received before 1pm on Tuesday 24^th January 2012. 

If you have any questions regarding Malta please contact: Jenny.Compton@britishcouncil.org

If you have any questions regarding Germany please contact:Karen.Cleland@britishcouncil.org

See you at BETT 2012

             

 

If you are at BETT this week Wednesday 11th January - Saturday 14th January come and see us and say hi at one of two stalls.

This year for the first time eTwinning Europe-wide has a stand of its own with a packed programme of activities including case studies from current eTwinners and a live partner finding event Download ETwinning BETT 2012 Programme. Find us at stand G110.

We will also be at the British Council stand, so if you want to talk to us about eTwinning or find out more about any of the other work British Council does stop by and see us at stand Q38.

Can't wait to see you all there!

 

 

British Council UK Activity Map

The British Council have created an interactive map showing details of engagement across the UK. It isn't specific to eTwinning, however it's a great snapshot of our work across different areas and can give you a flavour of what is happening locally in conjunction with the British Council. Search by region and you can view by constituency or local authority:

http://activitymap.britishcouncil.org/Home.aspx

New eTwinning Webinars

Interested in finding out more about eTwinning?  Then why not join our free webinars:

12 Dec     Making use of project kits

13 Dec     Finding a partner school

14 Dec     Registering a project

Sign up to attend here