I left Athens to attend University in Johannesburg. I thought I would return to Greece after I finished my degree. Instead, I had a family and stayed in S.Africa for 15 years before we came to England. I am now the Director of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computing in Darlington. I am always looking for projects to link our pupils with the rest of the world.

We have completed a very successful calendar project with a school in Northern Spain in which we shared photos, music, sound bites and videos to give information about cultures and traditions. Our work was shared and stored on our Twinspace.

We are in the process or registering the project again with schools in other countries.

We are also registered with a school in France and my pupils are learning French with a class of similar age French pupils. We are about to exchange some artwork through the post and pictures of the work are shared on the twinspace. We are hoping to be involved in video conferencing which is our next target.

I’m a member of the eTwinning Teacher Team developing project kits to help schools with ideas.

Working in the City Learning Centre, where I support the pedagogical use of ICT in the curriculum, I can work across schools here and internationally.

I have run several online projects involving Maths, Science, Music and MFL which will be extended into eTwinning, the first of which is a pilot project linking schools to join an international challenge of virtual online grand prix racing using maths.

I have been involved with eTwinning for a number of years, starting with just one project and then designing out KS3 ICT curriculum around eTwinning projects.

I have had many successes and have developed friendships, however I have also experienced frustration and eventual failure of projects; however, one thing that I am sure about is that eTwinning is an exciting and powerful tool to aid learning and teaching.