Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 8 Visibility of eTwinning Projects Newsletter 8 | Page 58

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2018 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ eSafety in eTwinning projects: Look before you leap! by Angela Capezzuto eSafety is not an easy topic to breach to young people, especially since the Internet is their major source of contact with the rest of the world and any type of preaching about dangers present even among their so-called “friends” in social media websites, induces a closing up of communication with them, making the approach useless. In my school, there have been various attempts to breach this topic with them e.g. web conference with postal police, visits from eSafety experts from the Italian centre “Generazioni Connesse” and postal police experts, but when asked for their feedback, their comments were mostly about getting bored or similar. Fortunately, through the CPD (continuous professional development) offered on the eTwinning Live portal (see the Professional Development section in eTwinning Live) and also in the eTwinning featured group “Bringing eSafety into eTwinning Projects” moderated by Aneta Wilk, I was chosen to be part of the Teacher Panel at the Safer Internet Forum (SIF) in November 2017. This was the breakthrough I needed to set up a project with my dear friend from Serbia, Jasna Boskovic, who I had worked with last year in a successful eTwinning project about managing in today’s job market, and who is an expert in Cybersecurity. A little digression, I have added the mention of my colleague to let the reader know about the wonderful opportunities to meet expert teachers around Europe without leaving the classroom! Putting our ideas together, and using the input from my experience in the SIF, we began to experiment engaging ways of presenting serious topics to our students such as Netiquette, Password Security, Copyright, Fake News, eSafety terminology and lastly, but not leastly, reaching out to their youth community by sharing the knowledge they acquired, through posts, video tutorials, posters and podcasts. The project through facts: # Present yourself through the Padlet Likes/Dislikes of the Internet. 58