"eTwinners go social" Learning Event - December 2012 - Teachers' Room eTwinning e la realtà: our story

1. Teachers’ Room
eTwinning e la realtà:
our story
e la realtà…
Maria Rosaria Fasanelli, Antonella Ciriello

2. E&R = WHEN SOCIAL GETS 'REAL'
Teachers' room founded by Laura Maffei,
Italian Ambassador (Tuscany) on Dec. 1st 2011

3. WHAT DOES THE REAL SCHOOL NEED?
A TEACHERS' ROOM SHOULD BE BASED
ON:
• TEACHERS’ NEEDS
• TEACHERS’ COMPETENCES

4. IN ORDER TO:
• GIVE AN ANSWER TO DETECTED NEEDS
• SHOW THE BEST PRACTICES OF REAL
SCHOOL

6. OBJECTIVES OF E&R:
• Form a group of Italian teachers who may
communicate, cooperate and share
• Explore Italian teachers’ needs
• Discuss major issues and suggest solutions

7. E
SOME OF E&R’S FORUM THREADS:

8. • Where do Italian teachers meet to exchange
ideas?
• How do you get your pupils work with their
partners?
• What are the main problems you’ve had as an
Etwinner?
• Etwinning and Comenius, is it better together?
• What does Etwinning add to the
teaching/learning process?

9. • How many partners in the ideal project?
• Do you manage to do all your Etw. work in
your curricolar classes?
• How did you find out about Etwinning?
• For ambassadors: why do we attend so
many seminars and workshops and just few
take an active part in Etwinning?
etc.....

10. Reasons for this E&R’s success I
CAPACITA' E IMPEGNO DEL TEAM
CAPACITA'E IMPEGNO DEL TEAM
The team’s skills and dedication shown in
- devising the platform
- calibrating contributions
- suggest “everyday” topics

11. Reasons for E&R’s success II
Teachers’ variety
They
- work in different parts of Italy
- teach different subjects
- work in differet kinds of school

12. Reasons for E&R’s success III
Shift from discussion to implementation of
- articles about best practices => E-BOOKS
- shared docs to improve eTwinners’ and
ambassadors’ status

13. Reasons for E&R’s success IV
Open-minded and user-friendly environment:
- use of national language
- message-exchange between veterans and
newcomers
- no-stress ( blend of passion, self-irony,
irony...)
- sharing of useful material ( mobility forms,
allowances, procedures, etc.)

14. OUTCOMES I:
• Document addressed to National Agency
and Ministry ‘to get our work better'
• Tips for the improvement of the Twinspace

15. E - BOOK 1
April 2012:
Teachers tell their experience
in Etwinning

16. E- BOOK 2
May 2012:
• teamwork
• mobility: experiences and tips

17. E- BOOK 3
June 2012:
• dissemination
• Science and Maths projects

18. E-BOOK 4 (plurilingual)
August 2012:
Translation into
English/French/Hungarian
of the articles about
teamwork and mobilities

19. POSITIVE FIGURES:
• 145 contributors
• Most active room after helpdesk (more than
1900 posts in less than one year and all “to
the point”)
• More than 6000 accesses for e-books
• Hundreds of downloads of shared docs

20. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES I:
• Reaching out to all Europe by translating our
docs into other languages
• Devising other E-books with the contribution
of our European partners and eTwinners
• Keeping on meeting up to share everyday
school issues

21. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES II
• Going on debating topical issues
regarding Italian and European
school

22. TIPS .......
- A teachers' room should meet clear-cut
needs
- Ask some colleagues for help
- Take care of your TR, a little every day,
answering posts and adding new inputs
- Don’t stress and don’t get stressed (no
'tasks')