Guide: Initial Contacts

The Apréli@ Network
Educative e-Twinnings

Send an email to your partner colleague briefly introducing yourself and your class (level, number of pupils, girls, boys, ages, and any other information you think is useful).
Decide who will do the first suggestion about:
- the Travel Diary themes to be tackled during the school year
- a timetable for the year (one or two chapters per term?)
Give yourself a deadline for making the decision (if the school year begins in October, end of October would be ideal).
Use email to agree on the timetable. It is desirable to keep to the schedule agreed for the first term. It is always possible to adjust decisions for next term when you evaluate what has happened during the first term.
The schedule below can help you plan the initial work. This section will help your partner colleague and you to define the structure of the Travel Diary so as to define the stages of the implementation. The choices you make will influence both the instructions for information retrieval and for the organisation of the Travel Diary.

	Action	Who	Deadline
1	Suggest themes for the year	Each separately	dd / mm / yyyy
2	Compare suggestions and make the preliminary choice for the year	Together
3	Decide on the outline of the schedule for the year	Together
4	Firm decisions for the first term	Together
5	Start the module “Who is who?”	Each separately
6	Exchange work digitally	Each
7	Questions/clarification phase	Each
8	Exchange documents for validation	Each
9	Complete the module	Each separately
10	Exchange completed outcome	Each