Empowering students in

eTwinning

Budapest the 1 st. of April 2011

Signe Sloth teacher atSøndervangskolen in Hammel

Denmark

Hammel

Søndervangskolen in Hammel

712 students from 6 – 16 years old62 teachers

1. Small projects – where you exchange data• You are doing it for someone somewhere in

Europe – not just the teacher

• You can see your own life in a bigger perspective

• You get good discussions in the class – maybe it will lead to more collaboration in the future?

• You can get started right now!

International collaboration on different levels

2. Big projects – a shared product/project

• Needs a good planning and structure

• Deadlines and agreements

• It demands a lot of the students ability to collaborate

• It is motivating and they take owner ship of the project

• Patience!!

International collaboration on different levels

http://etwinningbudapest2011.pbworks.com

Empowering students in collaboration

I have asked 41 students from Estonia, Iceland and Denmark

what they think is most important in different scenarios..

Students from Iceland, Estonia and Denmark

1. Denmark44% (18)

2. Iceland37% (15)

3. Estonia19% (8)

Age distribution

13 14 150

5

10

15

20

25

2

15

74

8

5

Girls Boys

23 total= 56 %

6 total =14 %

12 total= 30%

How active would you consider yourself to be during..

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 100

2

4

6

8

10

12

Normal classroom teachingInternational collaboration

Activity rate when collaborating international..

Lower Same Higher0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

6 6

2

31

4

35

10

Iceland Estonia Denmark

12 students = 30 % 12 students = 30 %

16 students = 40 %

How does the following things make the teaching / learning at school interesting and thereby

makes you interested and active?

•When you are using media like blogs, wikis, Facebook..•When you are collaborating with other countries•When you learn about a really exciting subject•When your work is project based

Activity in the different situations..

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

When using media like Facebook, blog, wiki.. 1 1 4 1 2 6 7 8 7 3

Collaborating with other countries 0 1 0 0 2 3 6 11 8 9

Exciting subject 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 13 10 10

Project based 0 0 1 3 3 6 4 10 10 3

13579

1113

Num

ber o

f stu

dent

s

28=70 %33=82,5%23=57,5%

18=45 %

Have you worked voluntarily with the project from home?

Yes No5=62,5% 3=37,5%

9=60%6=40%

17=94%

1=6%

Estland Iceland Denmark

24,4 % total

75,6% total

Through your work on an international collaboration project have you voluntarily talked (through chat)to your collaboration partners from home about other

things than the collaboration subject?

No15%

Yes, but only

about the project

5%

Yes, and about other things

too80%

What do you think made your project a success?

Learn

ing about o

ther c

ountries

Learn

ing about o

ther o

ther c

ultures

Getteíng a new persp

ective

Using a

foreign

langu

age ac

tive w

hen..

Using F

acebook,

wikis a

nd blogs0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

4.8% 4.8% 4.8% 0.0% 4.9%7.3% 17.2% 7.3% 7.3% 9.7%

31.7%34.2%

17.0% 19.6%23.4%

39.0%34.2%

63.4%

31.7%36.6%

17.2% 9.6% 7.5%

41.4%25.4%

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

Mean: 6,6 Mean: 6,2 Mean: 6,7 Mean: 7,7 Mean: 6,5

Would you participate in eTwinning again?

Yes15%

No65%

Maybe20%

Would you participate again?

How likely is it that you would be in an international collaboration project again

if you had the choice?

Is international collaboration a lot of fun?0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

0.0% 0.0%4.9% 4.9%2.4% 2.4%

29.3%21.9%

63.4%70.8%

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

Mean:8,6 Mean: 8,6

To see our climate song click the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NSzhrhp8-A

signe.sloth3@skolekom.dk