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https://www.europeanschoolnetacademy.eu/web/the-networked-teacher/

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The Networked Teacher - Teaching in the 21st Century map

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This map shows the location of participants in the course "The Networked Teacher - Teaching in the 21st Century" on European Schoolnet 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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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.

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This is my secondary school in the north of Rome, it has 250 students and 25 teachers. The school has got some classes with Interactive White Boards and projectors and two labs: a computer lab and a video room. 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.

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https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

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Unit 1.1 Entering the Job - Great Expectations

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Unit 1.1 Entering the Job - Great Expectations

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Teaching is the most beautiful and rewarding job in the world… That’s what many people say. But it might also be the most difficult job.

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Learning won’t stop once you graduate as a teacher. To grow as a teacher and to adapt to continuous changes in society in general and in education in particular, we all have to be lifelong learners, learning formally, non-formally or informally.

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Most rewarding:
To have more time to talk more with my students to know them better, to understand their interests, their ways of learning. I use collaborative activities (such as the ones in eTwinning projects) to discover their talents and social behaviours. it's not so easy when you spent only three hour lessons a week in six different classes with 20-24 students to learn everyone's own learning.
Biggest challenge:
My biggest challenge is to involve everyone of my students in class activities with motivation. I had and have some foreign students who really had/have difficulties with Italian Language and all related subjects (History, Literature, Geography) and Maths/Science but they were/are really great in Languages. I encourage them to develop and improve their language skills and continue studying them.
Professional development:
I have attended a lot of courses in the past and I continue my professional development everyday by attending courses and webinars. 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.

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My learning diary link:
https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo/networkedteacher2019

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Formal - Informal Learning
I try to use several methods in my lessons to engage students' attention and interests. Even if teenagers have knowledge in a pocket (on their smartphone) most of the times they don't use devices and new media to improve their education. That's a pity! I try to improve my students' formal and non-formal learning at school by creating activities based on Collaborative Learning and Project-based approach, but I'm trying to encourage them to develop their informal learning outside school by using nowadays means of communication, too.

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Online communities where teachers meet, connect, share experiences and learn from each other are excellent sources for informal learning. For example, eTwinning is a platform where teachers can connect easily and learn from each other

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My video on Flipgrid:
https://flipgrid.com/18c206f8

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I have my PLN (Personal Learning Network)
I'm an active eTwinner and I've just been appointed eTwinning Ambassador.
I have my personal site where I share my lessons:
https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

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Unit 1.4 Twitter as a tool for lifelong learning

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Unit 1.4 Twitter as a tool for lifelong learning

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Activity #9:
I have a Twitter account, but I don't use it very much. I don't like it as a tool for learning or teaching. Maybe I would give it a try in the future.
My Twitter Account: @emyruf

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Unit 2: Unlock the Classroom – Active Technology

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Unit 2: Unlock the Classroom – Active Technology

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Schools are creating flexible learning spaces to give pupils more opportunities to build 21st-century skills and competences such as collaboration, critical thinking and creativity, and the role of the teacher is expanding from sole transmitter of knowledge to a facilitator and a coach.

Goals of the unit:

The concept of active learning

The potential benefits of technology

How technology supports knowledge creation, collaboration and playful learning

How technology can support inclusion

The benefits of Twitter chats and how they work

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Learning is effective when students are actively engaged, independent and collaborative learners, critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Learning activities should therefore involve and engage everyone and use technology appropriately.

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My ideas in the Mentimeter Survey:

Using technology in the classroom allows you to experiment more in pedagogy and get instant feedback. 60

Students don’t have equal access to technological resources. 10

We live in a digital world, and technology is a life skill. 30

Results:

https://www.mentimeter.com/s/7d0a41d19bf444bf5fd254ffe45def60/ba8de17beb91

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If I had 25000€, I would invest the budget in flexible environment and furniture.

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If you had a budget of 25000 € to spend on technology for the classroom or school, what would you use it for? Explain WHY the investment is a priority for you. - [U2-A2] - brainstorming and voting | tricider

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Click on ADD IDEA and post your ideas. You can post pictures if you want, or add external links. Also add WHY you would do the investment.Please also comment on the contributions of other participants and vote for good ideas.[When posting it is not strictly necessary to give your email address.

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I think it is important to have good rules for using Students' devices at school. if the school hasn't got a good technological equipment, it could be a possible chance to let students use their own devices, it could be possible to explain how lucky they are to have "knowledge in a pocket". They would have to use their data connection, too, this means family have to recharge their credits... Teachers who wants to use BYOD have to think about how to organize the activities in the best way. I usually ask my students to use their devices to play Kahoot activities or to complete Google Modules. They are useful to make researches online when working collaboratively.

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Technology and the Internet have brought a huge potential to support pedagogical change

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To involve students at home:
I usually propose my students this activity after we studied food and drinks and how to order at the restaurant. I usually create a collaborative activity in class by asking students to practice dialogues in groups of three (waiter and two customers). Then I ask them what is her/his favourite dish or what can they cook. So I ask them to find and write the recipe of their favourite food. They will complete the activity at home by completing a Padlet. Here are some examples of my students' activities of the last years:
https://padlet.com/emilyrufo/2drecipes
https://padlet.com/emilyrufo/2crecipes
https://padlet.com/class_2c/favouriterecipes

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My example of Rubric created with the app Rubistar:
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/rubrics_sec

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I like using tools to assess my students. I like Kahoot, it creates engagement and it's fun. I like Google Forms, too. One of the last tools I've tried is FlipGrid. It helps students to go out of their "comfort zone" by recording videos. I used it to improve their speaking activities, we are working on it, because most of the students feel really ashamed.

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Collaborate&Create
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/science_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/language_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/create_mixed_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/gamificationclassroom_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/jeopardy
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/flash
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/quizzes

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I like to let my students create jigsaws by using JigsawPlanet, especially for eTwinning Projects. Here are two examples made by my students to present Italian traditions and our city Rome:
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=203663b893b6
https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=02fc5590e7a1

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STEM Village is a guided, web-based tool for K-12 students to develop critical science, technology, engineering and math skills for the rapidly evolving knowledge economy.

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I like creating quizzes with Kahoot. It's fun! Here is one example:
https://create.kahoot.it/share/d2c8501b-e5e4-48f3-aefb-085473fa2fba

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Technology can help to make the classroom more inclusive and help to differentiate activities for students with different needs – particularly important with active learning.
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/inclusion_sec

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How can you encourage and support inclusion and, more generally, active learning if there are only a few devices for a whole group of students? Or if all the computers are in a lab? What if students may use their phones? What if there is just one computer and a smartboard or data projector in the classroom?
This is what normally happens in my classrooms. I sometimes have a laptop and an Interactive Monitor/projector but I have my devices, too. I have my smartphone, my iPad. They are hotspot, so I can make my students connect their devices to mine (at least 10), I have an old smartphone I can connect to my school wi-fi. I have my bluetooth speakers, I have my own projector and laptop, too. A few years ago I decided I would have my lessons as I had prepared no matter where I was and what kind of technology equipment could school give me. As I always say: "I can have my lessons even in the street!". I have what I need!

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Unit 3: Unlock the Classroom – Active Space

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Unit 3: Unlock the Classroom – Active Space

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Once a school was seen as a place where a limited set of activities took place in a rigid learning format with the aim of transferring knowledge. Nowadays society has expectations that go far beyond this traditional view: school is still a place for learning, but also for living and growing, a space where students feel at home and where they can develop all aspects of their personality to be ready for a demanding society.

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School is not only a place to learn, but also a place to live.

Activity #1
My school is a traditional school. It has got classes with Interactive White Boards and projectors and two labs: a computer lab and a video room. There are 20 tablets for students, wifi and Lan connection.
There isn't flexible furniture or learning scenarios, but even if we have a frontal setting of the classroom, teachers have the opportunity to move desks and chairs to create a collaboration environment.

https://padlet.com/eunacademy/livingroomeffect_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/ownership_sec

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Classroom layouts are often the result of traditional teaching preferences, or whole-school policies on the arrangement of desks and chairs in rows. Teachers who want to implement non-traditional learning formats to support, for example, collaborative or project-based learning, often find that traditional seating layouts get in the way.

Activity #4
I went to Finland two years ago and there I visited wonderful schools, they are really comfortable for students and teachers. There were labs, flexible furniture, lots of technology, relaxing space for students and nice teachers' rooms with sofas and kitchen. I felt like home at school.
In the picture classroom can be easily divided in different areas where students could develop their skills, this means that teachers have to teach in diverse ways by using new methodologies and integrating digital tools in their lessons.

https://padlet.com/eunacademy/setup_sec

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I would like to organize the Learning space in zones. When I change the
setting of my classroom I concentrate on Interacting, Presenting and
Creating.

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You can set up online collaboration projects with other schools, by joining a community like eTwinning. Students can interact in a safe way with peers from other countries. eTwinning is a community of over 200,000 schools in Europe and beyond where teachers can easily and at no cost set up online collaboration projects.

Activity #7
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. I organize eTwinning projects every year for different classes. I think this kind of collaboration among European Partners, enhance teaching and learning. Students have the chance to know different traditions and cultures. They become more tolerant and develop solidarity and acceptance of new customs. Teachers have the chance to meet other teachers online and share practices and teaching ideas. It is a great community. I'm eTwinning Ambassador and I am proud to be part of this world.

https://padlet.com/eunacademy/outdoor_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/skype_sec

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Here is a link to my eTwinning Projects repository:

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Here is a link to my eTwinning Projects repository:

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Unnamed pearl. Progetto e-Twinning 2015/2016. E-Twinning Project a.s. 2016/17. Summer photo gallery. European Day of Languages. ETwinning Project: Surprising

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Your digital footprint matters; it paints a picture of who you are. Make sure it’s accurate!
Every day, whether we want to or not, most of us contribute to a growing profile of who we are online; a portrait that is probably more public than we think. This portrait helps companies target content and advertising at specific markets and consumers. It also helps employers look into your background, and that includes heads of schools.

Whatever you do online, you are leaving a digital footprint behind. Hence, it is important that you know what kind of trail you are leaving, and what the possible effects can be.

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Four Reasons to Care About Your Digital Footprint

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I'm a protective online user...

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https://padlet.com/eunacademy/digitalfootprint_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/bifk_sec

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I took part with my students to Safer Internet Day in the last three years. I teach my students how to be safe online and not to make big mistakes on the web. This is an online generation. I started to be online at the age of 30. So I have 10-year-old digital footprint. But what about my students... they are online from the age of ten... so they have to know what this means and what consequences it will have on their future.
I usually have this lesson to help them become more aware of what to be online is.

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Big mistakes on the web. Big mistakes on the web by Emiliana Rufo on Prezi. Unnamed pearl. L'Incredibile URL. La ragazza visibile. Dos and Don'ts when using

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It focuses on professional development and lifelong learning.
Curation:
The Internet gives us access to numerous resources that could be useful for our teaching practice and for our professional development in general.

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Share Resources.
I share my website with a collection of English activities.
https://emilianarufo.wordpress.com/

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https://padlet.com/eunacademy/virtualmuseum_sec
https://sites.google.com/view/fun-movies
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/testeach_sec

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I already have a Pearltrees account, I have all my links there and much more:
https://www.pearltrees.com/emilianarufo
https://www.pearltrees.com/emyrufo

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I have been using padlet for four years. My students used it lots of times.
Here is my account:
https://padlet.com/emiliana_rufo

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Using Padlet to create innovative English lessons

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I have been used TES - Blendspace for four years. I have a collection of activities I often use during my lessons:
https://www.tes.com/member/emiliana_rufo

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In education, such a sharing culture can inspire other teachers and suggest new ideas. Adapting learning materials, completely or partly based on what others have already produced, allows you to have up-to-date resources, gives you the opportunity to differentiate and produce different materials for different profiles of learners, and enables you to add your own touch to the learning content.
It is important to respect the author’s rights. It is not because nowadays it is so easy to copy, paste and adapt. Copyright is a complex matter and varies from country to country, but teachers and students should be aware of the basics and be an example to students inside and outside the classroom.

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https://www.oercommons.org

http://lreforschools.eun.org

https://education.microsoft.com/find-create-and-share-a-lesson/lesson-plans

Activity #6
A repository of lessons I often use is:
https://www.khanacademy.org/
But I also know:
https://library.weschool.com/
and this:
http://www.scuolavalore.indire.it/
and also this, a useful site with a lot of lessons with Interactive Monitors:
http://exchange.smarttech.com/#tab=0

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https://creativecommons.org/about/program-areas/education-oer/

http://europeana.eu

https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons

https://vimeo.com/creativecommons

http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/Creative_Commons

http://pixabay.com

http://comicbookplus.com

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https://padlet.com/eunacademy/creativecommons_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/learningactivity_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/pictureplay_sec

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Peer review leads to reflection about your teaching practice and can inspire you, too – you can learn a lot from colleagues.
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/peerreview_sec
Nowadays, many Initial Teacher Training Institutions use video capture as part of the process of teacher training. With technology like IRIS Connect, a lesson can be recorded. Afterwards, the mentor can comment on certain parts of the lesson, and the teacher can review them, as well.
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/videocapture_sec

Tools for Self Reflection and Peer Review

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https://padlet.com/eunacademy/peerreview_sec
Rules in a classroom are important and must be shared. Teachers can catch students' attention in different ways, there are a lot of strategies you can use to motivate and gain students' trust and respect.
When one of my students has a bad behaviour in the classroom, towards me or any of his/her mates, I often keep silence for a few seconds by looking at him/her and then ask questions on why and how he/she could behave better in the same situation, so I open a dialogue to understand the student and re-establish a positive atmosphere in the class.

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Learning in online communities and networks differs from the traditional classroom learning.
Activity #13
I have already attended a lot of MOOCs, in English and Italian, on diverse topics according to my teaching methodologies and subject. I like this kind of professional development because it gives you the possibility to learn new learning activities, new teaching strategies and methods. You may improve your way of teaching and learning, you can create your repository of learning diaries where to collect resources for the future. You can learn how things work in other countries and you can share your teaching ideas and materials and benefit from other participants' ideas and materials.
Of course you always have a experts, tutors and mentors in these courses to help you learn in the best ways.
Here is a link to some of my Learning Diaries I've created for the MOOCs I've attended:
https://www.pearltrees.com/emilianarufo/partecipazione-formazione/id16641823

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https://education.microsoft.com/courses-and-resources/courses
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/coursevideo_sec
https://padlet.com/eunacademy/badge_sec

Activity #15