Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Concluding, I can say for sure that my assessment on European Ambassadors Course 2015 is very positive, because it made me and all the Ambassadors aware about the central issues that the teaching profession has to face in the coming years. We have to consider two important aspects: the role of Initial Teacher Training( ITT) and Continuous Professional Development( CPD). eTwinning Ambassadors, with their dissemination work, could help to improve the quality of teaching enhancing through networking, and to support teacher networks in opening up towards new stakeholders. At the same time, they could help solve problems about technology, like the control of data and issues of privacy, security and safety.
contact teacher for the Erasmus + project in her school, and she is a journalist and media-educator too. Her great passion is the cinema, she is the creator and art director of On Air Festival, international video-contest for schools, and for 10 years now she is a member of the jury at The Giffoni International Film Festival, the largest children ' s film festival in Europe, and possibly in the world.
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Reflections on the Training Course for European eTwinning Ambassadors 2015-2016 by Maria Teresa Asprella Libonati, Emma Giurlani, Francoise Altamura, Anna Rita Recchia, Enrica Maragliano, Brigida Clemente, Cinzia Masia, Sara Brunno, Maria Rosaria Gismondi, Roberta Maria Delle Monache and Alessandra Cannelli
In the last months we have taken part in a training course for eTwinning ambassadors, realized in a Moodle environment and structured in four modules, each one containing a certain number of issues dealt with by different trainers and with connected tasks to be performed either individually or in group.
Before ending the article, last but not least, I want to say thanks so much to all teachers and moderators of the eTwinning Ambassadors’ European Course 2015: Mathilde Bargoin, Maite Debry, Anne Gilleran, Benjamin Hertz, Irene Pateraki, Santi Scimeca, Adam Stepinski, Bart Verswijvel – they led our work patiently and carefully. A special thanks to Rute Baptista our great, tireless and smiling support teacher.
Maria Nica is a teacher of Italian Literature and History at Istituto Polispecialistico San Paolo of Sorrento, in the South of Italy. She has master ' s degrees in Pedagogy, Sociology, Sciences of Communications and Psychology. eTwinning has been her great interest from 2007, and in 2009 she became an eTwinning ambassador. She is the
During the weeks of the course there were many opportunities to collaborate in work groups and in the end we decided autonomously to create this all Italian group for the realization of this final product in which we were asked for an action plan in order to " give an excellent contribution of eTwinning to our country, keeping into account what has been learnt during the course ", to be sent to our Italian NSS.
Considering the remarkable relevance of the professional development path realized in collaboration with colleagues from all Europe for our training, it seemed a good idea to start a dissemination activity, sharing and communicating on a national level the experience had and the knowledge acquired.
The experience in the course has led us to a comparison with colleagues of all the European countries taking part in eTwinning and it has surely enriched and deepened the potentiality of our role in the various national realities. For this reason we think it is important to share and let everybody know what we gained in this training experience.
The " human factor " of our European colleagues has supported and encouraged our efforts even in the moments in which school and family activities
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