Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Through numerous threads about different topics, the teachers could interact and communicate dynamically, they posted their comments, suggestions and reviews on the work of their colleagues. After that everyone had feedbacks from the tutors and the other colleagues too. The number of posted comments and peer reviews were higher than our expectation.
Both the Chat and the Live Event were mainly exploited by the administrators to arrange the setting of the Group space, to talk about materials or share ideas useful to better organize and ménage the online training experience but also the face-to-face meetings. Although it is a powerful tool to communicate and collaborate synchronously, we could not involve the trainees in any Live Event because of some problems.
Communication was also supported by the Groupmail. This tool was functional to the other ones because some members of the group chose to send emails when they mainly needed to communicate with the tutor administrators of the course.
Step by step, we noticed that many teachers had become more confident using the different tools in the webspace sections. We had the chance to realise the participants’ eTwinning platform appreciation through their interaction in the Forum, the frequent messages in the Group Journal, the uploaded presentations, their shared final CLIL projects and also the questionnaires filled at the end of last meeting.
Once again, among the various training opportunities eTwinning platform has provided eTwinners the change to improve their professional development also exploiting the Group space. Trainees have realized its effectiveness using some of the available tools while interacting in a safe working environment.
Finally, as eTwinning ambassadors and teacher trainers, we highly recommend teachers to become part of the eTwinning community for its vast range of opportunities useful for a successful teaching career.
Alessandra Basso has been teaching in primary and pre-primary school for 27 years. She has attended CLIL training courses and carried out action researches on CLIL Approach since 2005. She is an eTwinning Ambassador and has run several Comenius and Erasmus + projects.
Cinzia Masia teaches English in a secondary school in Sassari, Italy. She is an eTwinning Ambassador and a teacher trainer. She is interested in putting into practice new strategies and tools, involving her students as much as possible.
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