There is a space for teachers who want to find eTwinners to develop a project in Spanish language. If you want to be part of this space, follow these steps:
2. Contact your eTwinning National Support Service on etwinning@schoolnet.gov.mt or on 25982150 to get an invitation to this area called TwinSpace. (Please give exact email account that you used when you registered to eTwinning.) 3. You will also get information about how to make full use of this collaborative tool.
The Polish National Support Service has recently advertised their list of winning projects for this scholastic year. One of these projects is Happy Minds Strong Bodies, by Christine Zukier from the Pre-Integration “Gromadka Uszatek Bear” in Schwerin Lubuskie, Poland, which has Maltese partners in it. The Maltese partners in this project are Ms. Patricia Bondin and Ms. Janet Mifsud from St. Thomas More College, Marsaskala Primary. In Malta this project was awarded the National Quality label too for its interesting and extensive activities.
The Maltese NSS together with the Maltese partners would like to congratulate ourselves with the polish partner for winning this award.
The Kindergarten Section of St. Thomas More College, Marsaskala Primary organized an event called ‘Our Neverland’.
The main idea behind this event was to raise the awareness of the children about the planet where collectively we can change our world into a DREAM PLACE full of LOVE and FAITH just as the lyrics of the song ‘My Neverland’ go.
Ms. Maria Magro, Year 4 teacher at San Gorg Preca College, Hamrun GP Primary, invited the eTwinning National Support Service to participate in a small class celebration to close this year’s eTwinning projects. Ms. Magro has participated in various projects during this scholastic year, namely Faces, Schoolovision 2011, Snapshot of Europe 2011, What is the weather like today?, From the nursery of Salzburg to the Royal Theatre of Vienna, and made a certificate for each child in her class as a keepsake.
Ms. Maria Antoinette Magro with eTwinning NSS
One of the pupils receiving the certificate and a token from the eTwinning NSS
On Wednesday 1st June 2011, Ms. Jeannette Cardona and Ms. Amanda Debattista from the eTwinning National Support Service visited St. Theresa College, Mriehel Girls’ Junior Lyceum to present tokens to students who participated in the eTwinning project called ‘Let’s make the best out of nature!!’ This project placed second in the eTwinning National Awards.
Biology and art students from Ms. Nathalie Scerri’s and Ms. Romina Briffa’s classes gathered in front of the mural they have created for this short cermony symbolic cermony. The teachers also presented the students and eTwinning National Support Service members a copy of the desk calendar they created with the photos shot during this project.
This project brought together the subjects of biology and art though a common theme: endemic flowers. The biology students studied the flowers and took photos of them, whilst the art students painted them and ended up with a large mural in the schools foyer.
by Ms. Josephine Ebejer Grech, St. Ignatius College, Blata il-Bajda Girls’ Junior Lyceum
The name “Caustic” refers to an eTwinning project where students from 3 different countries shared their experiments. The students who took part in this project were Biology and Science students from St Ignatius College GJL Blata l-Bajda Malta; Science students from Sibiu in Romania; and Chemistry and Science students from Antonio Paccinotti, Taranto Italy.
At around September the three teachers discussed the topics that they teach. At first they were going to share only those topics that are common amongst the three, but then they decided that they would share any interesting experiments that they were going to do along the scholastic year.
The second step was to invite students into the TwinSpace. They started introducing themselves, their countries and their schools by video clips, picturetrails, word documents and power points.
After the ice breaking exercises, the teachers started working on the first topic “Acids and Alkalis” which was a common topic amongst the three countries. It was very interesting to see the different approaches that different teachers take to teach the same topic. It was also very interesting and innovative for the students to take a video camera in their hands and film each other doing the experiments. Now it was their responsibility to understand well the procedure of the experiment as it was their turn to explain well to the students in the other countries. This was the first advantage achieved by this eTwinning project – motivation. The students used to look forward to see themselves explaining on the TwinSpace, and they looked even more forward to see the comments written about their explanations.
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The project proceeded by sharing more and more experiments – not only by sharing video clips, but also sharing the write ups, comments about how to improve the practical, critical notes, prezi presentations, power point presentations, picturetrails, slideshows, etc.
Sample of videos:
Towards the end of the project the students had to vote for their favourite video clip.
This project was awarded the national quality label as well as the first prize during the national eTwinning awards on the 13th May 2011.
by Ms. Nathalie Scerri and Ms. Romina Briffa, St. Theresa College, Mriehel Girls’ Junior Lyceum
The aim of this project was to make the students aware of the beauty of nature around them, by focusing mainly on locally growing flowers. The students were expected to observe flowers, photograph them as a whole or to focus on various parts of the flowers. Such photos were used to create paintings, a wall mural, framed posters, photobooks and calendars. Besides, all the students acquired knowledge about the different flowers, mainly their names and characteristics. Such characteristics were then uploaded in a website which was developed during this project. Anyone willing to view the website, its URL is: www.magicofnature.weebly.com. The students worked as a team, sharing ideas and information.
The winning projects from the Secondary Schools Category were:
First Prize
Caustic by Josephine Ebejer Grech of St. Ignatius College, Blata l-Bajda Girls’ JL
Second Prize
Let’s make the best out of Nature by Nathalie Scerri and Romina Briffa of St. Theresa College, Mriehel Girls’ JL
Third Prize
EUROBOTS by Mario Xerri, Gozo College, Victoria Girls’ Secondary
The winning projects from the Primary Schools Category were:
First Prize
Bonding with Nature by Marika Vella Montebello of St. Margaret College, Zabbar Primary A
Second Prize
Welcome to our World by Joseph Saccasan of San Gorg Preca College, Paola Primary B
Third Prize
Intercultural Dialogue though Fairytales, Drama and Art by Marouska Azzopardi Duca of St. Clare College, San Gwann Primary B (Ms. Spiteri, head of school, received the prize in her name.)
During the week of our National eTwinning Conference held in conjunction with Embed 2011, eTwinning organized daily workshops for students from different schools and of different age groups.
Three groups of up to 15 students visited the eTwinning stand daily. The eTwinning National Support Service staff, Jeannette Cardona and Amanda Debattista, showed the students at their workshop how they can use a free web 2.0 tool, which could be part of thier school project work and can be also embedded in the eTwinning TwinSpace or other online spaces.
Biex tikteb bil-Malti fuq il-kompjuter mingħajr ma jkollok problema bl-ittri Maltin, niżżel dan il-manwal u attiva l-lingwa Maltija li diġà qiegħda fil-kompjuter tiegħek.
There is a space for teachers who want to find eTwinners to develop a project in Spanish language. If you want to be part of this space, follow these steps:
