Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 96

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When the coordinator of the Erasmus+ project is an ICT teacher by Alma Suto The project team of Primary School Zmijavci has used ICT in all stages, from idea to implementation of the project, which is a new experience in the preparation and implementation of international cooperation within the Erasmus+ KA1 Project Learn2Teach. Various modern technologies have been implemented through collaborative activities and the use of web tools from initial ideas, writing to project implementation. The Erasmus+ KA1 project Learn2Teach is a two- year project that we are pursuing to develop a new MediaLab extracurricular activity and are implementing it in the school curriculum. The aim of MediaLab is to enhance different types of literacy as the basis of acquiring key lifelong learning competencies. Within project Learn2Teach our teachers are trained through structural courses, job shadowing and teaching assignments so that they could use modern and innovative teaching with ICT tools and integrate various teaching contents through project teaching thus motivating learners for better achievements and stimulate them for lifelong learning. In the following paragraphs you have the opportunity to learn more about digital tools that can be used throughout all phases of planning, implementation, evaluation and project presentation. ICT can be used in all phases of work. Using ICT in planning and implementation of international projects improves teachers, enables their professional advancement and their readiness to implement modern teaching. Examples of use of Office365 tools (Team, Forms, Sway, Word, Excel) which unite content: from planning, ideas sharing, writing and editing documents, tracking, evaluation, and presentation of project activities will be introduced. The use of ICT in all project activities saves time and facilitates the management of all its parts. This way, participants will be presented with actual situations in which information and communication technology can be used in all phases of work from idea to implementation of the project. Office365 is available in the Republic of Croatia, without fees, for all educational staff to collaborate, make decisions, develop self-confidence and use additional opportunities in the lifelong learning process, and to encourage them to collaborate, logically judge and interact. Office365 is an integrated application and service interface designed for business development. Its online version updates each month with the latest features and security updates. All members of Croatian educational staff can login to Office365 with [email protected] account. Office365 offers a number of applications that can be used online no matter where users are located. It can also be used offline - all changes are saved when re-connecting to Internet. Furthermore, it provides many opportunities for collaboration and creating common documents, although associates are not physically in the same place, and do not have to work at the same time. Everything mentioned above is a good reason for the use of this tool for quick and efficient collaboration. After the initial idea and the decision to write a project proposal, the first step was creation of Microsoft Team by project coordinator, who is ICT teacher. All members of school project team were included. Microsoft Teams is cloud-based team collaboration software and it is part of the Office 365 suite of applications. The core capabilities of Microsoft Teams include business messaging, calling, video meetings and file sharing. Also, all team members are able to upload files (receipts, agreements, certificates, and etc), which simplifies administrative tasks. The second step was to write a project proposal in MS Word file, online version. The MS Word file was opened in the Microsoft Teams, so it was available to all team members. All members answered some questions from the official project application form. 96