How eTwinning Impacts on Learners

Past Perfect & Past Simple Interactive Exercise

Past Simple & Past Perfect

Ten Steps for a Successful eTwinning Project

Infographic by eTwinning Europe

12 Principles of Modern Learning

Credits: Richard Olsen licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Sports & Healthy Eating Habits across Europe

Visit our eTwinning Project 
@ https://twinspace.etwinning.net/52703

To know more about this Project, click here.

eTwinning Zarco Project 2017/2018

Visit our new project on Sports & Healthy Eating Habits across Europe here. 

At Zarco we are working with France, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Romania, Poland and Turkey!

If you're interested, you can check all the data on the project here.

Teaching Model for the 21st Century

Credits: Education Rickshaw

Integrating Collaborative Learning in Policy and Practice

21st Century Skills - Above & Beyond

Credits: P21

10 Reasons to Go Google in ELT

eTwinning Quality Label for our Project @ Zarco

The project "Let's get to know each other" developed by the 11th grade professional courses @ Zarco Secondary School in Matosinhos has been awarded the eTwinning Quality Label.

An immense THANK YOU to all the participants.

You can access all the work here.

Happy eTwinning Day!

Let's Get to Know Each Other powered by eTwinning

The eTwinning project "Let's Get to Know Each Other" was developed in the English classes at Zarco Secondary School, through an online partnership with schools of Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Poland and Hungary, with a total number of 246 students and 14 teachers from 7 different countries across Europe.

The students created an e-magazine on different aspects of each country's identity. Together with the crucial intercultural contact, a special motivation for written tasks in English has been created by using the Twinspace as a web 2.0 tool for active learning.

You can see all the project clicking here:  https://twinspace.etwinning.net/30405.

21st Century Skills for Students

Infographic credits: Digital Schools

21st Century Education

iTEC - Designing the Future Classroom

iTEC is about designing the future classroom. The project, which involves 15 Ministries of Education from across Europe, brings together teachers, policymakers, pedagogical experts - representatives from each stage of the educational process - to introduce innovative teaching practices.

The Marshmallow Challenge

Tom Wujec from Autodesk presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average? 

Do your students have collaboration or communication problems? Why don't you try this?

Learn English by singing

Subingles is a Spanish collaborative site that encourages you to learn English through videos and especially by singing. It has a wide range of songs in English and all sorts of videos with subtitles. Users are invited to contribute with their own videos for their cyberlibrary. You can have access to language exercises and to a live chat. Subingles also suggests different ways of interacting with the English language by giving us links for:

- News from Reuters and SkyNews;
- Radios, such as, Rpadio Vaughan and CNN;
- Class videos;
- Chatting about specific topics;
- English symbols;
- Children songs;
- Blogs to learn English.

What is WIKI?

found pic @ ucview

Wiki is in "Ward" Cunningham's original description: "The simplest online database that could possibly work."  Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. The first ever wiki site was created for the Portland Pattern Repository in 1995. That site now hosts tens of thousands of pages. Originally it was wikiwiki, the Hawaiian expression for "fast" or "quick" but language users tend to simplify words, therefore only wiki remained.

Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

In ELT the uses for a wiki are incredible. You can get students to practise reading, writing, looking for information, organising it, looking for the adequate images, checking their pairs' written production and self-correcting their work. Most importantly it is an incredible tool to motivate students, less engaged in FL tasks, because they feel they are not so exposed to the class and to the teacher, having also some models/ examples online to follow or get some inspiration. To create a wiki you can use Google sites, wikispaces or any other available on the Web. In a future post, I will explain how you can adapt the collaborative spirit of a wiki so that you can evaluate written tasks individually. 

Here is an example I used with my 12th grade students:

Written Tasks 4 Professional Courses