The eTwinning Back to School Campaign ended at the end of November 2010 and the lottery was drawn during the first week of December to reveal the winners of the digital resources kindly sponsored by IMS Ltd. and Exigy. The eTwinning National Support service visited the winning schools and presented these awards to the Heads of Schools and the participating teachers.
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As part of our Christmas activities held at Maria Regina College, Naxxar Primary School, every year we organise a crib competition.
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The winter eLearning courses are to commence next January 2011. The first courses will start on Monday 10th January. All applicants have been informed of the date and venue. Kindly check your email inbox and if you have any queries you may email to Jeffrey or Raymond.
We would also like to take the opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year.
May the New Born renew in all of us the wish to make ourselves better for the new year. Wishing you all a happy Christmas.
Without doubt Web 2.0 tools are a bliss. Most of them are free and very useful. Despite all these benefits, there are also some disadvantages. One of the things I say during my lectures on Web 2.0 tools is that teachers should never rely totally on such tools. A case in point is Del.icio.us, owned by Yahoo. It seems that the popular social bookmarking, used by many including teachers, is going to shut down. It is not the end of the world. Diigo is a replacement to Del.icio.us. The good news is that all Del.icio.us supporters can export the bookmarks to Diigo or even to your favourite browser.
Paul Holdsworth - from the European Commission’s Directorate General for Education and Culture - tells eTwinning how mobility projects and in-service training are essential for complementing teachers’ professional development.
Continue reading and view video of the interview at: http://www.etwinning.net/en/pub/news/news/paul_holdsworth.htm
At first there was Google Earth, then Google plunged into the ocean and even to distant places in space. It’s been a vaguely educational journey! Their next frontier: the human body, with Google Body Browser.
“In Project Based Learning (PBL), students go through an extended process of inquiry in response to a complex question, problem, or challenge. While allowing for some degree of student “voice and choice,” rigorous projects are carefully planned, managed, and assessed to help students learn key academic content, practice 21st Century Skills (such as collaboration, communication & critical thinking), and create high-quality, authentic products & presentations.”
AnswerGarden can be used as an online answer collection tool. Questions can be created easily. Enter the question and click create. Logging in is not required. Pupils post their answers which are displayed as a word cloud.
Circular CMeLD 243/2010 has been sent to all Kinder, Primary and Secondary schools to invite Senior Management Staff to attend an eTwinning Awareness Programme.
eTwinning is the Virtual Community for Schools in Europe. Teachers from all participating countries can register and use the eTwinning online tools (Portal, Desktop and TwinSpace) to meet virtually, exchange ideas and practice examples, team up in Groups, learn together in Learning Events and engage in online-based projects.
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View the presentations, documents and video from the iLearn Platform Phase 1 Launch Briefing held on 14th December 2011
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Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education Curriculum Management and eLearning Department |
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