Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 18

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Documenting an eTwinning project
by Françoise Altamura and Grazia Del Tito
Project documentation and dissemination are very
important in eTwinning projects and, in general, in
all projects.
When do we document?
At the design stage, at the end of a major activity
and at the completion of the project. Retrospective
documentation is very important because, unlike
the documentation in progress, it allows a more
detached and objective vision of the work.
Which is the difference between documenting and
disseminating? To summarize, we could say that
documenting is telling what you have done, how
and why. Disseminating is letting know what you
have done, how and why. In our personal and
professional experience as teachers, eTwinners and
ambassadors, we have often seen that innovative
and high quality pedagogical projects remain
unknown. They last forever in the memory and the
experience of the participants but as something
‘private’.
Any project, to switch from private to public,
requires visibility. How do you get visibility fo