Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 45

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------How to persuade…
by Tatjana Gulic

eTwinning initial teacher training pilot project
by Alessandra Cannelli

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...your colleague to work with you on a
project?
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...your head teacher to add your school to a
project?
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...your community to support you with your
projects?

In the last years I have been involved in the
training of trainee foreign language teachers and
teachers of other subjects training for Content and
Language Integrated Learning at Romatre
University. I started proposing the use of
technology applied to learning and step by step
eTwinning has become more and more important in
the syllabus of trainees.

A lot of times you are in a situation that you have
very little time to talk and persuade your coworkers to join you in eTwinning projects or to give
you some extra money you need. How to do it?
For such occasions you have to be prepared and
you have to train. This type of speech we usually
call ˝Elevator Pitch˝.

This year I was asked by eTwinning NSS to take
part in “eTwinning Teacher Training Pilot”. It is an
experimental project among European Universities
for the use of eTwinning in the training of trainee
teachers.
On the 26th and 27th May 2015 in Brussels was
held the second meeting of the European and
Italian Universities involved in the Pilot, which
proposes the integration of eTwinning in the initial
training.

Start your speech with a ˝hook˝, a statement or
question so you will interest your listeners to hear
some more. You can start also with what you do,
not necessarily what you are if they do not know.
Tell something about the content of your project,
reason of your speech, what you want from that
person or institution, and give them just a few
details to make them curious. Also tell them why
this project is important or useful to them.
Use plain language and at the end repeat the most
important facts.
Of course you have to use different speeches to
different people.
For a good speech you need to be prepared. You
can test yourself to make recording of your speech.
For more tips you can br