Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 90

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Being aware of that, we created a forum section
called “Let’s work together” where they could create
groups of partners both to work on the final task
and think about future cooperation. This section
collected 350 posts, which demonstrates that
teachers need to share ideas, experiences and
projects with colleagues (as we did - in fact - in our
team: together is always better!).
This was the most positive aspect of our LE:
teachers working cooperatively and discovering
during their work in the platform aspects of PNSD &
eTwinning that they did not think of before.
This way of training teachers was proposed as a
model of training: working in groups to realize a
project and sharing results and best practices.
Some groups prepared their final assignments as a
planning for new eTwinning projects consistent with
PNSD – some examples: coding in primary
classrooms, Bring Your Device projects or STEMfor-girls approaches.
Moreover, working in a team as experts was for us
a great asset - and participants felt the
collaboration and cooperation behind the scenes,
and appreciated it.
Hopefully, this will encourage them to try the
“eTwinning way” for themselves: which means,
start working collaboratively into eTwinning.
We also think that our LE represents a “teaching
model” we offered to participants: a group who
offers training, working in team, can be considered
a possibility for training organizations in all
European schools.

Paola Arduini, Laura Maffei, Marilina Lonigro and
Elena Pezzi are teachers from Italy and eTwinning
Ambassadors.
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