Quick reminder for those involved in eTwinning programmes, and if you’re not it’s not too late to sign up… If you don’t know about eTwinning it is explained in the MFLE Links Abroad section and in the current mflePodcast, with excerpts from the SETT Learning Festival seminar on eTwinning (full seminar available here).

The first annual European eTwinning Awards will take place in Austria on 13 January 2006, and as a school with a registered eTwinning partnership, you are warmly invited to put your project forward.

Deadline for applications is November 10, 2005 The awards are designed to celebrate and recognise schools who have been involved in innovative projects during this first year of the eTwinning scheme.

Applications are invited in the following categories: School collaboration – how has eTwinning enabled you to work effectively with a school or schools elsewhere in Europe? Pedagogical innovation – for projects which have transformed teaching and learning Digital resources – for eTwinning projects that have developed outcomes: teaching materials, training resources, presentations, etc.

For each category there will be a winning and a runner-up partnership, in each of the following pupil age ranges: 5-12 year-olds and 13-19 year-olds.

You apply through the eTwinning portal: http://www.etwinning.net/ww/en/pub/etwinning/prizes.htm. Here you will find full details including eligibility/judging criteria. Judging will take place at a national and Europe-wide level.

The first prize is a special “eTwinning campus”, bringing together teachers and pupils from the winning partnerships, as well as attendance at the prize-winning ceremony which will take place in Linz, Austria, between 13 – 15 January 2006. Runners-up will receive a place at the winners’ conference and also get to attend an eTwinning development workshop in Europe in 2006.

There’s nothing to stop you applying. It could be a great way of raising the profile of your school and the great work you’re doing in the scheme, and help develop further eTwinning activity.

Remember the deadline is 10 November!

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