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.

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