TwinSpace Presentation

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TwinSpace

Eva-Maria Schlierf & Miriam Alves

20.01.2020

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The interface

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/86941/home

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Pages



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What are pages for?

‣Similar to sections in a website

‣They tell the story of our project

How do our pages look like?

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What is the structure of our pages?

1. Who are we?

• All six schools present their city and school

2. International meetings

• One page per international meeting (more can be added, if

necessary)

3. Project activities – Phases 1 to 5

• Here all kinds of activities inbetween project meetings can be

included


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What is the structure of our pages (cont)?

4. Lessons learnt

• Here is a space to evaluate our project activities, communication,

etc.

DO YOU HAVE ANY

SUGGESTIONS?


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Parts of a page:

‣ CONTENT - Text, in which you can embed links, fotos/pictures, videos and

documents.

‣ TWINBOARD – visual complementary section of a page; interactive board where all

users can post items in the form of videos, pictures, text, files.

‣ POLL – meant to be used as evaluation of the activity, feedback or to agree on

timing/ time questions.

‣ DISCUSSION – users discuss directly about the topic, but discussions are linked to

the forums.

NOTE: No part is obligatory


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How can we use these pages more effectively?

Example Germany: each teacher/ student logs in at least once a

week and posts, comments or is in any way active.

TEACHERS:

Update pages as necessary (if necessary ask for admin rights)

Pages cannot be deleted, only archived – so plan carefully

TEACHERS AND STUDENTS:

Use the TwinBoard to add pictures, videos, links, etc.

Comment on content or participate in polls


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Homework for teachers:

‣ Add the introduction of your city and school to the „Who are we?“

pages

‣Introduce „blog texts“ from the first mobility in the section

“Lessons leant“

‣Update the discussion on the page “Social media strategy –

creating buzz for our project“ by giving URLs of your local Social

media profiles

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Materials



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The ‘‘Materials‘‘ section is divided in:

‣ Images (pictures, fotos)

formats: .bmp, .png, .jpg, .gif

‣ Videos

URL from video (YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion)

‣ Files: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF,…

Within these sections you can create folders to organize material, but you cannot

create sub-folders!


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Problems:

• Max. size is small

• Can seem a bit chaotic

Possibilities:

• Once uploaded, easy

access to materials that

can be used several times

in different posts, by

teachers and students!

• IMPORTANT: PLEASE

UPLOAD!


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Forum



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Forum:

‣A forum can only be created with admin rights

‣Threads are recommended, in order to organize the discussion

‣Discussions started/planned in PAGES appear also in the FORUM

section


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Online meetings



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Online meetings are divided into two sections, both used to

communicate in real time:

Chat

‣ You can access using the online meeting section or just click on

the person that is online on the main page of the project

‣SUGGESTION from us: use this to ask your project partners how

they‘re doing every once in a while

‣NEW STEP: Students use this medium to establish contact

before the project meetings abroad

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Online meetings are divided into two sections, both used to

communicate in real time:

Online meetings:

‣use this more often, instead of Skype, for example

‣ Every teacher with admin rights can start one, by registering for

one time slot (between 30 and 90 minutes)

‣ Cannot by accessed by pupils accounts

‣ Can be used in class context (input to think about???)


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E-mail



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Problems:

• Not possible to organize e-mails by subject/ person

contacted

• Until last checked, no notifications


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Possibilities:

• Project e-mails all in the same source

• checked on a daily/weekly

• Advantages in the evaluation of the TwinSpace?

(Belmira)


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Posts



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Posts are like a project diary!

‣ They are defined as a project diary – each school

should post once a week

BUT WHAT?

Short updates on

‣what is being prepared,

‣what is going to happen and

‣ results of activities.


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Posts are a project diary!

‣Say where, when, what, who

‣Insert a picture or a video (has to be uploaded

first)

‣Make sure you “like“ other schools‘ posts

‣Comment by expressing your (positive) opinion on

the efforts or the outcomes


Who can do it?

• Both teachers and students, different

perpectives enrich the diary

• you might want to coordinate to avoid double

posting

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