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This map shows the location of participants in the "Open eTwinning" course on Teacher Academy. Please enter your location on this map and see if there are people close to your location who are also taking this course.

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"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn." This famous quote from Xu Kuang captures the power of project-based learning. Project-based learning is known to be a hugely engaging and impactful pedagogical method, but many teachers are unsure how to put it into practice.

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The contents of my learning diary are taken from the course and shared for educational purpose only

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The contents of my learning diary are taken from the course and shared for educational purpose only

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I'm an English as a Foreign language teacher. I have already attended courses on Project-based Learning. I have tried with my students some activities, especially in working for eTwinning Projects. It needs a lot of time and Italian schools timetable and curriculum do not give many possibilities to implement it.

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3 things you want us to know about you, one of them related to your experience with PBL and eTwinning;

2 activities that you could not stop doing for anything in the world;

1 dream job you would do if you were not a teacher.

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I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Secondary School in Rome. I've been teaching English for 15 years. I'm specialized in developing ICT in the classroom. I like learning new things, I think life-long learning is the aim of a good teacher. I like trying new methods to make my lessons interactive and I believe this digital period forces us to march in step with progress and I want to be at the very forefront. My web site: https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

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My presentation

My web sitehttps://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

Emiliana Rufo

I am a Tech Teacher and an active eTwinner!

Hello! I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Secondary School in Rome.I've been teaching English for 16 years. I'm specialized in developing ICT in the classroom.I like learning new things, I think life-long learning is the aim of a good teacher. I like trying new methods to make my lessons interactive and I believe this digital period forces us to keep up with technological progress and I want to be at the forefront.

Who I am...

This is my secondary school in the north of Rome, it has more than 300 students and 50 teachers. The school has got classes with Interactive White Boards and projectors and labs. We use BYOD and web tools. I have been training to use technology in the classroom and my students are enthusiastic.I often use collaborative learning - task based activities so students can learn by doing. I started to flip some of my lessons following the Flipped Classroom approach. In this way, I'm re-organizing the learning time and trying to develop my students' digital skills, too.

My school...

"I hope to become an eTwinning Ambassador next year,I am the second in the list after my application"

"If I had not become a teacher I would have become a pastry chef"

"I would never stop learning new things, using technology and trying to inspire hope, ignite imagination, instill a love for learning in my students as a good teacher could/would do"

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My introduction - Emiliana Rufo - Copy copy

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My presentation My web sitehttps://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/ Emiliana Rufo I am a Tech Teacher and an active eTwinner! Hello! I teach English as a Foreign Language in a Secondary School in Rome.I've been teaching English for 16 years. I'm specialized in developing ICT in the classroom.I like learning new things, I think life-long learning is the aim of a good teacher.

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#twinmooc I love eTwinning. it is my favourite social community. I have a lot of contacts and I'm taking part to different projects this year. I won labels, I update my page and account everyday. It's really important for my teaching activity.

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To detect strengths and weaknesses in your teaching practice.

To find cases of good practice that can be an example and inspiration for you.

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How can a collaborative work help in my teaching

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How can a collaborative work help in my teaching

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I use ICT during my activities in class and to create engaging lessons for my students I use cooperative learning activities. One of the last cooperative activities we did for an eTwinning project was to create acrostics with family members' names by working in collaboration, then we wrote acrostics on shared google slides. My students enjoyed working together, helping each other (because writing acrostics in English is really hard work for 11-12 year-old Italian students!) and the using a collaborative tool without making a disaster... it was a great activity.
Here is the link to our acrostics/poems:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/acrostics2c2018

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To get to know the eTwinning quality criteria.

To draft a collaborative project.

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6 Criteria for Evaluation of an eTwinning Project

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6 Criteria for Evaluation of an eTwinning Project

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1) Innovation and Creativity;
2) Curricular integration;
3) Communication and Interaction among partner schools;
4) Collaboration among partner schools;
5) Use of technology;
6) Results, impact and documentation.

I think the 6 criteria are important to create an excellent eTwinning Project, only following these criteria you could be sure you are doing a good job for your teaching, for the partners, for your students, for learning. I won two National quality labels and one European Label. They were given to our projects because we followed all the criteria and I was really proud of what we did.

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In eTwinning, teachers organise and run on-site and online activities with their students along with colleagues from countries participating in the Erasmus+ programme. They engage in collaborative projects with the support of the TwinSpace environment. National Support Organisations are responsible…

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To get to know tools and applications which enables online collaborative work.

To integrate these resources in the design of a collaborative activity.

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Collaboration and communication are the bases of an etwinning projects. When partners collaborate and communicate they can produce wonderful activities and achieve good learning aims. When they do not communicate and cooperate the project won't run any further.

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In this chapter we will have two chapters covering three modules each. The first section will focus on management of eTwinning projects and the second on management of the Twinspace:

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Useful tools to create collaborative activities

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Useful tools to create collaborative activities

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To get to know eTwinning Live and its possibilities as a community and professional development platform for teachers.

To get to know the TwinSpace and the tools it offers for the development and publication of collaboration projects..

To integrate the contents of the course in a quality collaborative eTwinning project.