Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 35

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The course of the eTwinning Provincial Training Plan is structured in 4 modules with various contents: eTwinning Community and Live, Planning, TwinSpace, Tools. Each module began with a meeting in the presence, according to the timetabled program, and it was structured in a monthly term, during which the teachers were busy with tasks and webinars within the eTwinning Portal Group. the same active school teaching staff in the same project, with European partners, they have created interdisciplinary and collaborative activities shared in a very important action-research process in a constructivist mold. After an initial phase of entry into the eTwinning Community with navigation of the Portal, its functionality and enrollment in the second module to the students the procedure was first illustrated and then requested the design and implementation in the classroom in an eTwinning project with European partners. The last two modules were oriented to the development of skills of the use and implementation of the TwinSpace through a learning-by-doing of teachers, both in the laboratory in the presence and in the performance of tasks at home. At this stage the teachers have also discovered the important resource of the TwinSpace as a documentation tool of the project and thus the process of developing the students' skills. The big enthusiasm and interest motivated by the desire to develop innovative teaching methods and quality through new technologies and digital content, today indispensable to provide students with opportunities to develop skills and creativity necessary for a knowledge society of the XXI century, have been the key words for the great success of the course. In fact, about 180 teachers have completed the training course with amazing results. The tasks have been an inherent prerequisite of action research in education, since their completion meant that the learners were actors of the educational process and, in turn, were ready to proceed with training and access to the next meeting training, mobilizing and orchestrating the knowledge acquired. It goes without saying that a natural selection was inevitable! Course primary objective was to create a large group in which to communicate, share, distribute, asking, collaborate, meet, finding materials and all that was important for a new community of teachers who overlooks the "eTwinning world”. Within the Group were created sub-working groups, The main objectives of the course were all pursued about the process documentation, in the Group and in the TwinSpace of projects undertaken, and about the course evaluation questionnaire administered to teachers. 35