Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 22

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------based on an online platform, webinar, forum and
distance group work, that allowed us to easily
cooperate, even on a national level, exchanging
ideas and practices, reaching a significant synthesis
respecting different points of view.
We have reflected on the fact that eTwinning is
more and more a flexible tool, fit to accompany the
changes that are taking place in the Italian School;
for example some of us are using groups to support
training events not online, in the perspective of
improving plan in the school networks.
eTwinning program has started to be part of the
training of trainee students in University courses for
primary School teachers and for TFA students to
become teachers of languages in some Italian
universities.
Therefore eTwinning appears to be an essential
pedagogical approach to be used in every day
teaching, giving the possibility to create a
transnational open classroom where personality,
professional competence and know-how contribute
to define an augmented humanity, priceless added
value both for teachers and students.

the platform accompanying them in an itinerary
aimed at the realization of projects (from partner
search to the managing and development with the
right tools, to the application for quality certificate
at the end of the project) with events, in webinars,
workshops or learning labs and the possibility to
activate blended training courses, as complex
training needs can be satisfied only with
differentiated training interventions, as face to face
learning seems to be the richest interaction among
teachers and learners.
The training itinerary should be, in fact, blended
and plan the integrated use of more communication
channels on the basis of a precise strategy of
integration of didactic formats, which allows to
reach a quality increase in the activated training
process:
- plenary lessons with teacher/ tutor
- processes of collaborative learning inside a
community, based both on synchronous interaction
, in face to face lab activities, and on asynchronous
communication tools, in the eTwinning portal group,
and on a distance by chat and videoconference. We
have underlined the central role of eTwinning in
Erasmus + project of which it is integrated part.
As for the second intervention area "Pedagogy and
professional Development" we have focused our
attention on specific issues of methodological
character. Here we have thought about the
organization and support of experimentation
initiatives, by means of eTwinning, of pedagogical
aspects (PBL, CLIL, Competences didactics,
managing of group work).

During the course four macro areas of training have
been identified, which we have developed in several
individual and group activities and which we have
agreed to repeat in our events in our territories:
A. eTwinning Live
B. Pedagogy and Professional Development
C. Communication Skills
D. Making the Best out of the Net
On the basis of this setting, we have developed the
specific issues of each area showing clearly what
training events we could offer to our NSS.
For example, in the first area, devoted to the
potentialities offered by eTwinning Live, we have
thought of offering our contribution to support old
and new eTwinners in the introduction to the use of

We have thought about a proposal of training
/information on a university level and local
education authorities for the widespread diffusion of
eTwinning and the continuous updating and training
by means of the creation of projects on the
platform.
Considering the numerous networks of schools that
have been created for the participation to tender
notices of the ministry of Education (Digital National
Plan, etc) we believed necessary to integrate
eTwinning way of working in the proposals to the
central schools.
Dealing with the third area of our action plan
"Communication Skills", here the proposed issues
involve dissemination strategies and communication
art. On this topic, very much diffused in Europe, not
yet on a national level, we have remarked the need
of an empowerment of learning events in Italian
language.

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