The Twinspace is a multilingual tool designed specifically for eTwinning projects. Through a variety of tools, how you decide to use your Twinspace is completely up to you! You can use it as a base for all communication and project activities, a showcase of project outcomes or simply a location to store all documentation.
The TwinSpace is the work area for your project; it is an instrument that really encourages and facilitates collaboration, communication, sharing and interaction amongst pupils. It also places the pupils at the centre of the collaboration activity.
You might like to think of it as your private club. You, your partners and your pupils will be the main users of the TwinSpace but, you can still invite other people so that they may have access to this work area, such as other teachers from countries not participating in eTwinning, experts from museums or from professional or cultural organizations, etc. It simply depends on the aim and focus of your project.
You might also like to invite parents, or your school leader to come and have a look or decide to make the Homepage and Activities section of your TwinSpace public so that the wider school community can benefit from your experience, as well as you having a great way to proudly show what your pupils have achieved thanks to your help.
The Pupils Corner is where pupils can interact with each other and exchange material not necessarily connected with their school project. Clicking on the Chat allows you to have a conversation with all the members of the same TwinSpace. In order to „chat‟, members must click on Chat and be in the chatroom at the same time. The TwinSpace allows a high level of interaction both for the teachers, who can meet in private in the Staffroom.
Teachers can collaborate as well on a different level in the Staffroom. They can have exchanges relating to the planning of their project, they can reflect together on different pedagogical approaches, they can evaluate the development of the project, they can exchange interesting articles or other type of information... and why not, they too can socialise with their colleagues having the kind of conversation you might have sitting at a table over a cup of coffee.
If the TwinSpace has been used as a work area in your normal classroom activities, this will constitute good evidence of having satisfied this criteria.
My students and I are participating in a Twinspace with schools in Norway and Turkey. If you want to have a look, click on the link:
My students and I are participating in a Twinspace with schools in Norway and Turkey. If you want to have a look, click on the link:
