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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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eTwinning projects go social! - How to share
projects’ success and outcomes
by Maria Cristina Bevilacqua
More and more eTwinning projects are reaching
excellence, all over Europe and abroad, but the risk
that their potential richness and benefits could
remain limited to the partners sharing it is very
high: sometimes the project is not known even in
the same school where it has been exploited!
How can other teachers, other schools, other pupils
get advantages from good projects carried on by
other eTwinners? My answer is: by potentiating
eTwinners and Ambassadors’ use of social networks
in a professional way, as professional channels.
Relating my personal experience as a beginner
Ambassador, the easiest and quickest way, and the
most effective one, too, is to spread the projects on
as many social channels as possible, for instance,
by creating a dedicated Group on Facebook, inviting
all our contacts and our friends’ contacts to join in
it. I created a Group called after the province I
teach in (eTwinning Frosinone e dintorni
https://m.facebook.com/profile.php?id=846149108
854391&ref=content_filter), but I invited even
teachers from other provinces to follow it, above all
during my seminars or lectures.
could have any type of interest in the Project, as to
say colleagues, headteachers, parents, students,
local authorities, other schools of the same kind
etc.
The same thing can be done by creating a Telegram
channel, even if this social channel is not so
commonly used, but it is very useful because it is a
sort of one-way messenger, where people can only
get information, without replying. So it can help in
spreading projects’ links, or outcomes, or events.
Even the best project is useless if it is confined to
the TwinSpace where it was born and known only
by the partners who created it. It has to grow,
instead, as a seed, in order for as many people as
possible to be reached by the net, so to bloom
endlessly on diverse soils in different shapes and
colours, in lots and lots of schools.
Maria Cristina Bevilacqua has been an eTwinning
Ambassador in Italy since 2016. A primary school
teacher for 21 years, since 2007 she has been
teaching in a Vocational School for Catering and
Tourism in Ceccano, 90 km from Rome. Teacher
trainer since 1988, Microsoft Innovative Educator
Expert, ICT Coordinator, Teacher Mentor, Pestalozzi
winner, she has been involved in numerous
Socrates, Comenius, Leonardo da Vinci, Grundtvig,
and Erasmus+ projects.
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I use it to spread news from the Central Unit, NSS,
local groups, but even from eTwinners that can post
their projects or their activities linked with
eTwinning world, such as teacher training sessions,
meetings, webinars, Seminars and so on. Facebook
can became a sort of professi onal channel for the
diffusion of best practices in projects planning and
in their enhancing, because it’s much more
immediate and direct than a website, and people
can easily interact to ask for or share info . I find
it’s a fantastic and powerful showcase, that could
be used in a more effective way, to help other
eTwinners in getting the best from others’
examples, but even to show all the people that
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