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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter
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- participant in the International Conference on
Professional Development of Education - March
2016, Tirana;
- educator and trainer of the eTwinning Albania
Conference for Beginner Teachers in the European
Network in July 2017 in Tirana.
When I started working with eTwinning projects, I
aimed at improving students’ abilities and
recognizing ways of collaborating with other
colleagues, but I did not realize that eTwinning was
now like a second school for me. Increasing digital
skills, the introduction of teaching technology
brought significant improvement to my work.
I have been involved in STEM and eTwinning
activities for years, always with great love for me
and my students. At first I was very worried by the
many difficulties in using the platform and I came
to a moment where I decided to give up because I
could not follow the steps of the projects, but
European colleagues taught me a lot about using
online tools. The unsurprising support I have found
here in eTwinning has made me yearn for
improvement and I felt that my skills improved day
by day. In our projects we have dealt with
important topics such as: children with disabilities,
online children’s safety, knowledge of different
cultures.
My school is the winner of the "eTwinning School"
Label. The time has come to recognize the
eTwinning platform is very important for school
le aders as they play a key role in improving school
life. The promotion of the best teaching models, the
professional development of School Teams and
professional networks between schools are the
future of the professional development of teachers.
On the eTwinning platform I have created 29
events with different themes, always in relation to
the development of projects launched together with
the partners of different countries and the training
of the Albanian teachers.
Our school has developed a number of activities
within the "Safer Internet Day". A wide range of
exhibits included posters realized by students, that
under the guidance of painting teachers were
presented on SID morning breakfast in the school
halls. Other ways of communicating valuable
eSafety messages, including PowerPoint
presentations, Internet security holes and play
scripts, were also included. After the presentation,
students were accompanied by their teachers to
watch educational films through video-projectors,
based on cyber hazards, Cyber Bullying, personal
data and the implementation of eSafety policy
objectives.
CODEWEEK-HAPPENINGS: Link:
https://live.etwinning.net/events/event/16317
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Questionnaire for students and their vote:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LbUOtuGi47PDll
GrXRIWhrDGMHvkbreZQOCO68_SeCA/edit
We believe in the language of the soul.
Link:
https://live.etwinning.net/events/event/14255
"Safer Internet Day"
Questionnaire for students:
https://goo.gl/forms/u2Ac5AtSAf0PlGmx1
Link:
https://live.etwinning.net/events/event/22397
Trainings on the use of the Internet as "Create,
connect and share respect:" A better internet starts
with you "
Event "STEM WEEK 2017":
https://animoto.com/play/oD4DS1hwru6C7c443oHc
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https://animoto.com/play/kSXJgxRgK9qN8P56J4eQ
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We have developed various activities within the
European Day of Languages and have been honored
for these projects with National and European
Quality Labels for developing the digital
competence of staff and students, and the various
21st century teaching and learning approaches
necessary nowadays.
eTwinning brought an expansion of international
activities and activities such as:
- training on the eTwinning network selected by the
Ministry of Education and Sports in Bratislava,
Slovakia in May 2015;
- participant in the eTwinning Network Conference
selected by the Ministry of Education and Sports in
Florence, Italy in September 2017;
- Albania's representative at the Global Education
Forum in Budapest, Hungary in March 2016;
- selected by Microsoft in Education as Global
Innovative Tutor;
- participant in the Future Classroom training from
the Scientix Europe network in Brussels, Belgium in
October 2017;
- Albania's representative as the Ambassador of the
Scientix Albania Network at the 3rd Conference of
Scientix Europe on 4-6 May 2018.
The role of the teacher is indispensable to the
development of a society, but the rapid changes
that technology brings are greatly influencing the
work of the teacher. Perhaps in the future there will
be other mass online courses (MOOCs) that will
bring a novelty in teaching.
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