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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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SIF TEACHER PANEL and SAFER INTERNET
FORUM
by Aspazia Olar
The invitation to participate in these events was
launched in the BRINGING ESAFETY INTO
ETWINNING PROJECTS and was made by European
Schoolnet.
I participated with 10 other teachers from Ukraine,
Italy, Spain, Poland, Serbia and Armenia. This
group also has eTwinning ambassadors, who
promote online safety in their activities.
For half a day, the activities were organized at
Google Office Brussels, a place just as wonderful as
European Schoolnet.
European Schoolnet (EUN) is the network of 31
European Ministries of Education, based in Brussels.
As a not-for-profit organisation, their purpose is to
bring innovation in teaching and learning to our key
stakeholders: Ministries of Education, schools,
teach ers, researchers, and industry partners.
European Schoolnet provides both Ministries and
schools with: information and services relating to
the innovative use of educational technology;
outreach campaigns on specific educational topics
such as maths, science and technology; and
research activities.
Under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), EUN is
developing and maintaining – on behalf of the
European Commission – a Better Internet for Kids
(BIK) core service platform to share resources,
services and practices between national providers
of the services – the European Safer Internet
Centres (SICs) – and to provide services to their
users. The immediate result of this seminar was
collaboration between the participants and the
development of an eTwinning project. It also
included events dedicated to the Internet Security
Day 2018.
SIF EUN organised a ‘SIF teacher panel’, which
brought a group of teachers together at the Future
Classroom Lab in Brussels, on 22 November 2017. Also, the resources provided by the organizers are
always of great value to each of us, especially to
our students!
Bibliography:
https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/web/portal/ab
out
https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/web/portal/po
licy/insafe-inhope
https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu/web/portal/po
licy/safer-internet-forum
During this one-day training programme, teachers
were able to participate in hands-on workshops and
interactive group activities, while developing
different scenarios (i.e. lesson plans, best practices
guidelines) on how to work with young people on
safer/better internet issues. In addition, teachers
had the opportunity to present the outcomes
developed during SIF 2017 – this took place the
following day, on 23 November 2017.
Aspazia Olar is a teacher at the Technical College
"Lațcu Vodă" (awarded eTwinning School) in Siret,
Romania. She is the European projects coordinator
in her school and has implemented two Erasmus+
projects for far. She has been an active eTwinner
since August 2010. She was one of the first
eTwinning mentors in 2012, and she is an
eTwinning Ambassador.
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