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tips for collaboration
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- 1Tip #1Get to know your partners
Share with your partners all the necessary
information:
Number of students participating in the project.
Your students’ age and interests.
Your students’ level in the foreign language and their ICT skills - 2Tip #2Create a detailed time schedule
Set the starting dates for each task
Mark the dates each one of the partner schools is on holidays.
Share it with your students
Set deadlines and keep to them. - 3Tip #3Preparatory planning leads to a successful eTwinning project
Plan a meeting, introduce the project to the children and inform the parents, the colleagues and the headteacher about the specific project.
Add more teachers from your school to the project and form school teams.
Announce the beginning of the project on the school website.
Create Twinspace Accounts for all the participants and invite the students to the Twinspace.
Organise mini-courses for your students on ICT tools to be used and on how to use the Twinspace
Create Twinspace tutorials for students or partners who are beginners in eTwinning (if necessary). - 4Tip #4Design your Twinspace carefully
Create activity pages for each one of the planned tasks.
Add a short description for each one of the activities planned on the top of each activity page.
Agree with your partners about the most suitable tools for each one of the activities and add them to your activity pages - 5Tip #5Break the Ice and Get to know each other
Have students interact as much as possible.
Ask them to update their Twinspace profiles by adding a short description of themselves and a representative avatar.
Ask them to leave comments on their partners’ walls.
Vote for the best Twinspace profiles.
Plan chat sessions and skype meetings regularly.
Find creative ways to have your students introduce themselves and their school or country - 6Tip #6Team your students up in Transnational Groups
Create a table with the newly formed transnational groups and add it to the Twinspace.
Ask your students to work together and write a short description of their group members
Ask your students to agree upon a name for their group and draw together a symbol or an emblem for each group - 7Tip #7Plan as many collaborative activities as possible
Try to plan activities that need your partners’ contribution to be completed.
Use as many collaborative tools as possible
Try to avoid creating folders for each country in Twinspace. Successful collaborative activities are the ones in which you cannot tell which of the partners did what! - 8Tip #8Assign Responsibilities to your students
Discover your students’ talents and skills and give them responsibilities.
Team the students up in groups, according to their talents (the painting group, the photography group, the ICT group etc)
Assign to some students the role of ‘student administrator” in Twinspace - 9Tip #9Set Evaluation Criteria
Try to evaluate along with your partners the quality of your project.
Recognize Key Strengths
Identify areas that need improvement
Plan ongoing evaluation activities ( Ts and Ss share opinions, make proposals, comment on each other’s work)
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- in etwinning projects project/course Let's eTwin ER&MVO
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- Marta Xallis
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