The eTwinning National Support Service team visited Xewkija Primary School for the graduation of the Year 6 class. During the ceremony, the NSS were invited on stage to hand out eTwinning tokens to all the children who participated in the eTwinning Birthday Celebrations last May.
The kindergarten children of Ms. Miriam Schembri at Fgura Primary A celebrated “Colours of Life”, the winning eTwinning project carried out during this past scholastic year. The project placed first in the eTwinning Prizes 2010 during the Annual eTwinning Conference in Spain.
The eTwinning National Support Service visited more schools on Friday 18th of June 2010 to distribute the Birthday Card Competition tokens. The two schools visited were St. Ignatius College, Siggiewi Primary and St. Clare College, Gzira Primary.
The 16th of June, 2010 was a very special day for all the students at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun Primary GP. The children of Year 4, Ms. Magro, held their annual eTwinning Celebration to share their eTwinning projects and activities with the rest of the school. Present for the occasion was the college principal, Mr. Joe Buttigieg, and the eTwininning National Support Service team, Ms. Jeannette Cardona and Ms. Amanda Debattista. The students’ parents were also invited for this special occasion.
Year 3 pupils from Ms Catherine Bezzina’s class, St Ignatius College, Siggiewi Primary were the Maltese ambassadors for the eTwinning project “A Snapshot of Europe”. This is a project that involved the use of photography by primary school children across Europe.
In May 2010, a Professional Development Workshop was held in Villasimius, Sardegna, for new eTwinning Ambassadors. Two Maltese eLearning teachers attended this workshop: Ms. Joanne Spiteri and Ms. Lara Denise Grech. During this PDW, new Ambassadors discussed the launch of the new eTwinning Desktop in September 2010, and also how to build and maintain a successful TwinSpace. Below is a detailed report of these two workshops.
The eTwinning National Awards Ceremony took place on Monday 24th May, 2010, at the Excelsior Hotel in Floriana. During the ceremony, the eTwinning National Support Service awarded Quality Labels for eligible projects and eTwinning Awards for both the Primary and Secondary schools.
The ceremony kicked off with the airing of a short two-minute video which illustrated the activities that took place on the eTwinning stand at EMBED Best Use of ICT Awards. Amongst other activities, pupils who visited the stand could take part in video conferences with other European schools, take photos and videos with Tuff Cams, explore nature with Easi-Scope microscopes and record interviews with Easi-Speak mikes.
The eTwinning stand at EMBED Best Use of ICT featured some interesting new technologies, such as the Easi-Scope mircoscope lens. This special microscope can be attached to the computer via USB and images taken from it are projected on the PC screen. One can also take a still photo or even a video of the projection with a simple click. In this video, Ms. Marianne Schembri demonstrates the use of the Easi-scope around nature, by magnifying flowers, butterfly cocoons, ants, snails and tree barks.
During EMBED, Best Use of ICT week held at the Excelsior Hotel in Floriana, a number of interactive workshops took place where the visiting students were engaged in innovative activities.
Two of the workshops showed how robots can be used in the classroom, both with Primary schools (Bee-Bots) and Secondary schools (Lego-Mindstorms).
Children of all ages love comics - cartoon character strips, which usually tell a story, often humouros, and sometimes with a hidden message or two. Comic strips are often found in newspapers and magazines, and more recently, online. They can be a a way for teachers to convey a message to their students a bit differently, and in turn students can be encouraged to express their thoughts and emotions more freely. Web 2.0 technology offers teachers and students the possiblity to create online, embeddable comic strips and books easily and effectively. One such comic-creation platform is ToonDoo, which can be found on http://www.toondoo.com…