Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 13

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------representatives and one of the school involved also
its Belgian partners, making it a very nice way to
celebrate eTwinning in Europe.

teaching skills: each of them made me a bit better!
I would have never imagined running a webinar
myself for European Ambassadors about
"TwinSpace and its technical characteristics"!
So while I learnt new things I also shared my
knowledge with other teachers contributing to
diffusion of eTwinning principles from local school
communities to regional, national and European
ones.
Considering that I joined eTwinning in 2007, I must
admit that I have come a long way from then,
changing my teaching methods and my idea of
"good school" thanks to all my mentor friends who
"infected" me with their enthusiasm.

At the end of the celebrations, after the Chinese
lanterns and balloons, I invited all the audience to
join the AperiTwinning, to taste all the handmade
specialities cooked by the students themselves.

Now I want to greet my travel companions saying:
"Have a nice summer, relax and collect new ideas
for the next school year; we have a new exciting
eTwinning school year ahead of us!"
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eTwinning’s tenth birthday at “Familiari”
secondary school
by Domenico Marino, Francesca Zampaglione and
Caterina Praticò
Celebrating 10 years with eTwinning in our school
concurred to celebrate 10 years of successes and
awards. It was with pride and satisfaction that on
May 7th 2015, we were very pleased to celebrate
thiseventin the conference hall of the "Lieutenant
Colonel John Familiari" secondary school of Melito di
Porto Salvo.

This celebration was a great success, skilled
teachers shared their knowledge with the less
experienced ones, and it was so inspiring that I was
asked to run two more eTwinning training seminars
by the participating schools before the school year
ending! You can see the whole celebration here:
https://youtu.be/smEm_ThGGGI,
https://youtu.be/ZDeMVj52qQ0 and
https://youtu.be/zheXBw0S7Tk.
Finally, how could I forget the winter afternoons
spent with my eTwinner friends joining the
webinars organized by my NSS or by the CSS?
I improved my professional development thanks to
these online meetings, stretching my personal and

During these ten years, our school has been
involved in 26 projects, eleven of which have been
very successful, and some of them got several
national and European Quality Labels as the best
projects in French and English languages. In the )