Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 136

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter
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eTwinning Team at my school and in 2018 we got
the eTwinning School Label.
university - in the same eTwinning path? My answer
to these questions was a blended training course
that I planned and organized on the Italian
educational platform S.O.F.I.A. for the teachers of
all grades of schools of my region.
In doing this, I could rely on the support of Mrs
Mariagrazia De Meo, professor of English at the
University in Salerno, who I was working with in the
TTI project. We decided to involve in this course the
teachers of the elementary schools which were
hosting student teachers at their schools so that
they could start to know the eTwinning platform
and take part in a real eTwinning project. So from
January to March I run the 25-hour course
“eTwinning : the European engine of innovation”
divided in 13 hour on site and 12 hours on line with
the final task of opening or taking part in an
eTwinning project.
It was a real satisfaction for all of us and the right
reward for our hard work towards the students,
their families and all the members of the school
community. As an enthusiastic group we decided to
apply for the first eTwinning School Online Course
organized by the European Agency. Two of us were
chosen to enrol the course and, as for me, I got a
unique training which helped me to spread the
eTwinning program better and better.
At the end of this course I asked myself some
questions: “What could I do to spread eTwinning in
other schools of your district? How could I involve
them in eTwinning projects or give them new ideas
in applying new methodologies which are the
eTwinning backbone? How could I collect all the
education grades – from pre-primary school to
I must say that it was a real success which let me
achieve three main goals:1) more than 30 teachers
took part in each on site meeting: 2) a lot of
university teacher trainers involved in the TTI
project joined the course and learnt how to run or
take part in a project where the student teachers
could be involved; 3) an Erasmus+ KA1 was
planned by two teachers of the nearby High School,
after they had followed the dedicated training
meeting and had the opportunity to be guests in my
Erasmus+ KA2 project; their project was approved
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