Share ideas with fellow eTwinners in an eTwinning Group

eTwinning Groups are private platforms for eTwinners to discuss and work together on a specific topic or theme. Moderated by an experienced eTwinner, each Group sets out activities and tasks for teachers to do and discuss. Topics vary from languages teaching and collaborative writing to experimental sciences. The aim is for eTwinners to share practice examples, discuss teaching and learning methodologies and find support for professional development.

eTwinning Groups are specifically for teachers and can remain open as long-term discussion platforms. If you are interested in joining an existing Group, log in your eTwinning Desktop and go to the section “Groups”. Click on the group of your choice. Whereby you will be presented with a registration form to fill in. You can join as many Groups as you like, but please remember, that the philosophy of eTwinning Groups is that of sharing and contributing.

Any teacher interested in coordinating a Group can apply to lead a group on a particular topic; he/she will be asked to draft a document outlining the envisaged activity of the Group. To do this all would-be-Group leaders are sent a set of questions (a planning tool) that helps them focus on a number of aspects. If interested, you may write an email to groups@etwinning.net. The proposal is then examined by the eTwinning Team.

A word of caution: eTwinning Groups are not the tools for finding partners: the “find eTwinners” tool is specifically designed for that purpose. Registration to a Group is not an automatic process: some time may elapse between your registration and you receiving the invitation to join the Group. Group leaders as well might want to limit participation for different reasons. Please, be patient and do not resend your registration.

Below is the current list of eTwinning Groups.

NEW! eTwinning project trailers
Moderator: Daniela Arghir
Originally a successful Teachers’ Room, this Group examines the use of video for giving publicity to eTwinning projects.

NEW! eTwinning and Internet safety
Moderator: Lisbeth Knutsdatter Gregersen
Set up by the Norwegian National Support Service for eTwinning, this Group was  the important topic of using the Internet in a positive but safe way. Have a look at an interview with Lisbeth on the topic.

Integration of EU projects in the curriculum
Moderator: Fiorenza Congedo
The integration of eTwinning and other European collaborative projects in the curriculum is the key success factor for pupil participation. To choose a theme that coincides with an activity which is foreseen in the curriculum, and which can complete the in-depth treatment of a given topic, help us to transform our normal teaching activity into something special.

Collaborative writing (in Italian)
Moderator: Antonia Casiero
This group sets out to reflect on collaborative writing in eTwinning projects. How and with what instruments can eTwinners (teachers and pupils) construct together open knowledge, through collaboration in eTwinning projects.

Creative Classroom
Moderator: Irene Pateraki
eTwinning projects are ideal means to promote student’s creativity. Many teachers have already done a lot in this field. The “Creative Classroom” group is created to support teachers towards this direction: implementing creativity in everyday teaching and eTwinning projects in an effective and professional way. Teachers in this community will learn more about creative thinking, techniques, activities, games etc.   

CLIL and eTwinning projects
Moderator: Fiorenza Congedo
The Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Group sets out to be a collaborative environment in which teachers of curricular subjects other than foreign languages and foreign language teachers can meet and share methodologies, information, material and experiences in the realisation of CLIL projects as well as information on CLIL research and studies.

Experimental sciences
Moderator: Eric Vayssie
Experimental Sciences is a subject-based web 2.0 community of teachers sharing their professional experiences on physics, chemistry, biology or technology.

Groupe Francophone
Moderator: Maria Georgiadou
The purpose of this French community is to be in contact and collaboration with French teachers or people speaking and loving French.

Humanities
Moderator: Adam Stepinski
How to be critical and talk about things of great importance". The aims of this group range from collecting ideas on how different issues in the Humanities field can be exploited while working on an eTwinning projects to brainstorming on designing a successful project including elements from languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, arts, technology, anthropology and cultural studies.

Maths & Science
Moderator: Palmira Ronchi
This Group is aimed to explore different areas within maths and science teaching: how these subjects may be used in eTwinning, how we can learn techniques from each other, how we approach the pedagogy of maths and science in our daily work.

School Head Teachers    
Moderator: Cees Bradervelt
“Many heads make work light!” The role of a head teacher in the eTwinning process has many aspects, to understand, promote, support, and guide. In this community we discuss the implications and effects of promoting eTwinning in schools and offer guidance and professional development that will be relevant to these various roles in relation to eTwinning.

School Librarians
Moderators: Elisabete Fiel and Patricia Sambou
This group is for all school librarians who assist and support their colleagues in running eTwinning projects. The aim is to pool our knowledge and resources to strengthen the service we offer to our schools.

The Community of European Language Teachers
Moderator: Marilina Lo Nigro
The Language Teachers Group aims to gathering teachers of any language learnt as a second language as opposed to the mother tongue. The overall focus of the group is on the best practices in foreign language teaching identified through the sharing of the members’ successful experiences, aimed to assisting member teacher in their professional development and to improving their professional skills.” Subgroups are available in French, Spanish and German as well as two thematic subgroups on ICT and language teaching and methodologies in language learning and teaching.

Using Media “The community for not being used by Media”
Moderator: Laurence Altibelli
The purpose of this group is to facilitate the use of media in eTwinning projects, aiming to create a learning community that offers guidelines and examples of good practice for using media in education.

Visibility of eTwinning projects
Moderator: Daniela Arghir
This group focuses on the importance and ways of making eTwinning project work visible on a larger scale, in a safe, responsible and effective manner.

 

Web Editor: Christina Crawley Published: 21.05.2010 Last changed: 12.10.2011