Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 97

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Let’s eTwin ER&MVO: eTwinning Departments
of Education and Schools of Two Areas of Italy
and Spain
by Marta Pey
How can we, eTwinning Ambassadors, best spread
the word about eTwinning? How can ensure that
newbies benefit from our experience, making them
interested in carrying out projects in their schools?
How can we help improve the quality of eTwinning
projects? All in all, how we, eTwinning
Ambassadors, can collaborate in order to make all
this possible?
In this article, I am going to explain my experience
in the eTwinning course/project “Let's eTwin
ER&MVO”.

network of schools, based on peer learning and to
identify good practices in the role of eTwinning
ambassadors in advising teachers and schools.
The participants are 36 teachers (17 Spanish and
19 Italians), and 2 eTwinning Ambassadors: Elena
Pezzi (Italy), and Marta Pey (Spain) with
contributions from 2 Spanish Ambassadors (Florenci
Sales and Alicia López).
This course/project consists of:
- An in-site training course (30 h) in each country,
with these contents: introduction to eTwinning
(portals, Live), registration, the TwinSpace, how to
set up a project, how to find partners, examples of
collaborative activities, dissemination, evaluation...
- Online collaborative activities in the TwinSpace:
geolocation, collaborative presentations of schools,
forums. Thus, 3 webinars were scheduled: “Let's
get to know each other”, “eTwinning and Science”,
“eTwinning and Erasmus+”.

The project aims to bring together schools from the
two participating countries to collaborate, share
teaching practices and design projects together. All
this with the advice of two eTwinning Ambassadors
and teacher advisors from the Departments of
Education of the eTwinned areas of the two
countries: (ER=Emilia Romagna in Italy and
MVO=Maresme-Vallès Oriental in Catalonia-Spain).

The project has its own TwinSpace. The
ambassadors-advisers of the areas where these
schools are located are responsible for supervising,
guiding and training in the implementation of the
joint project. The ultimate goal has been to create a

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