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The great eTwinning art collection

Feb

2012

ratones_artistica The language of the arts constitutes one of the many ways in which human beings communicate and represent ideas. Within this sphere, the educational sense of the language of the plastic arts encourages the students' artistic sense and foments their initiative and creative expression. This language of the plastic arts - together with the language of music, which is not dealt with in this article - is integrated into Art Education in Infants and Primary Schools. It is an area which contributes to the acquisition, to a greater or lesser degree, of different basic competencies, but above all, contributes to cultural and artistic competence.

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12th edition of the eTwinning 2.0 course : project ideas

Jan

2012

curso_s2011 The 12th edition of the eTwinning 2.0 course, developed by the ITE On-line Training Department, ended on 12th December. On this occasion a total of 558 teache rs took part including 28 Germans and 31 French (with a knowledge of Spanish), who teach in their home country. Students and tutors are agreed that this new breaching of frontiers has been a total success. The course has managed to cover the theoretical practise of contents and achieve its objective of really initiating the teachers in the eTwinning action

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More than just Maths

Jan

2012

nosolomate Although the present curricular design maintains the traditional division in areas for the Infants and Primary levels and subjects for Secondary schools, pedagogical research recommends, as far as is possible, an interdisciplinary approach to contents. It is common to find eTwinning projects which develop activities from different areas/subjects with the participation of the respective teachers, which illustrates the increasing interest of teaching staff in this interdisciplinary methodology. Given the characteristics of this approach, on many occasions it is decided to work in a foreign language and, therefore, tasks and objectives from this subject are also developed alongside the others. However, it is more difficult to find cross curricular activities which include mathematics, so we are highlighting below some of those which we have seen among the projects entered for the 2012 National eTwinning Prizes:

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The making-of of an eTwinning project

Jun

2011

In the cinema, a making-of is a documentary video which shows how a film or television programme was produced. The shortest making-of’s are often used to explain the production process and to acknowledge the work of the people who have participated in the filming. But what has this got to do with eTwinning projects? We are finding more and more projects which are characterized by the variety of activities carried out by the pupils – slide presentations, wikis, blogs, chats, video conferences -. However, it is not always possible to see how they have been carried out or how they have been organized. For anyone who is not participating in a project it is interesting to be able to be present during the process, just like any other team member, and see the participating agents, the means used, etc. We are referring to the making of an eTwinning project.

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Project ideas from the eTwinning 2.0 course

Jun

2011

ideas_curso From the National Support Service we want to congratulate all the teachers who have participated in the eTwinning 2.0 course during the second edition of the on-line ITE courses from 2010-2011. Although the permanent training of teachers has been recognized as necessary, this task is often made difficult because of lack of time. On this occasion many individuals have completed the course satisfactorily, and we hope that for the next edition, which will be in October, many more will participate. We will keep you informed from our web site.