1. Managing your TwinSpace
• Engage your colleagues
• Empower your pupils
• Clearly signpost activities
• Label your school’s work
• Communicate with your partners
• Be realistic

2. Engage your colleagues….

3. Creating a small school team of staff at your school will
make your projectwork more sustainable.
You could invite a couple of colleagues from your
department/year group into your TwinSpace and
encourage them to look at the work you’ve already done.
Inviting them to contribute one small thing will allow them
to see the impact it has in their classroom.

4. To invite your colleagues: Ask them to join eTwinning.
Add them as a contact. Then go to ‘Projects’ and ‘Add
new partner(s)

5. Empower your pupils!
(Please make sure you consider your school’s
eSafety policy before giving Pupils passwords)

6. Everything you’ve done in this TwinSpace, a Pupil could do!
You may find it helpful to have a committee of students who
take responsibility for uploading work and checking once a
week to see if your partners have uploaded anything.
To add pupils, go to ‘home’ and ‘Invite pupils’
To give your pupils the ability to add work
and new activities make sure you also
‘Manage members’ and change their role to
‘Pupil Administrators’

7. What a Pupil Administrator can’t do….
Change the roles or passwords of other members
Make anything public
See inside the ‘Teachers’ Area

8. Clearly signpost your activities!

9. Clearly label all your activities with
instructions and clear deadlines

10. Label your school’s work

11. There’s nothing more frustrating for teachers
than having lots of great work and not knowing
where it came from.
It’s also really important that your work is
labelled if you want to apply for a Quality Label

12. If you’re the only UK school than use UK everywhere, if not you
could use the name of your school or the name of your class
You may want to consider including UK or the school in name in
the titles of….
Activities ….‘Autumn Activity UK’ or ‘Autumn Activity XX school’
Folders ‘Christmas powerpoints from the UK’, ‘Christmas
powerpoints from XX school’
‘Christmas ppt UK’ or ‘Christmas ppt XX school’
Picture of XX School, Logo design UK entry
Joe UK or Joe XXschool

13. Communicate with your partners

14. There are a number of places you and your
colleagues can share information: In the
activities, In the Blog, In the ‘Teachers’
area or via email.
So you need to be clear with your partner
so that you don’t miss anything!

15. As a teacher you will receive emails to your personal email
account when someone emails you on the TwinSpace (Pupils
don’t).
On the home page you can also see the latest actions:
But it’s also a good idea to discuss with your partner what your
main form of communication will be and whether you will email
each other when work has been uploaded. That way you won’t
miss anything.

16. Be realistic (and don’t make extra
work for yourself)….

17. The aim of an eTwinning project is to motivate your
pupils. This doesn’t mean that every piece of work has to
be uploaded and shared.
Making activities competitive can work quite effectively
and will allow you to just upload the one or few ‘best’ of
everything. Your class could all take part in an activity
and then vote for the best piece of work to go onto the
TwinSpace….