Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 21

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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During the meetings organized by the USR Lazio
the digital animators were shown the eTwinning
community, they were asked to join it and were
shown the role of eTwinning in the project by some
presentations of mine.
The Digitutors come from different levels of school
from the elementary to the secondary one. Among
them, there is another eTwinning ambassador,
Maria Cristina Bevilacqua, but some of them did not
know what eTwinning was and knew nothing about
its potentialities. For most of them joining the
community has been training in the training since
they have learnt to set up a profile, create a group
of contacts and of course to join the devoted group.
They have had and have a “space” for their own as
a form of documentation in progress of the project.
Pages have been created to introduce themselves
by a Padlet and to express their expectations
before the mobility and their reflections after them
through links to Triciders.
Other pages have been set up to have them upload
their learning diaries and to their dissemination
and follow up.
Forums have been divided into the different kinds of
mobilities so to share their doubts and suggestions.
In the” materials”, they have been invited to
upload some images of the experiences they had
and at the same time, they could find all the
detailed support material realized by the USR staff.
The group has been a multi-function environment
where the digitutors could find information about
the project but at the same time they could and can
have an active role uploading their materials in
form of posts or reports.
It has been also a place to learn and improve from
the others as they were invited to use different
tools to create their presentations and reports.
The groups will not close when the Erasmus+ KA1
project is going to end, that is to say next
September 2017. Erasmus+ projects times are
fixed while eTwinning groups are not!
In the final seminar in September 2017 organized
by the USR Lazio, they will be shown and suggested
different ways to “use” and exploit their group
according to their own creativity in order to turn in
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