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The first eTwinning lessons I attended is dated 14th April 2021.
During this lesson I could get some pieces of information about  what eTwinning Program is, why it’s important for teachers and why I should use it as a student.
I found the information I got very intresting because I think that the possibility to know this plastform can give me more skills as a future teacher.
I also liked a lot the ideas of
lifelong learning and didactic innovation on which eTwinning is based because I share this ideas.

Another intresting thing I learnt was how to use eTwinning as an university student to improve my skills and knoledges.

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As an University student teacher I know that on eTwinning I can   find partenrs, discuss and collaborate with them, participate in programs with  other students or tutors and do many others activities
I think I will use eTwinning in my future as a teacher to offer my students the possibility to use other languages in an active way, not only on books by doing grammar exercises.
During 14th April lessons I could also talk about the website mentimeter. I found this site very intresting because it can be used to make online learning more interactive and attive for students.
I also learnt that eTwinning offers to it'a members free webinars and I think I will attend some of them in my future.

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During 14th April 2021 lesson I could also learn the structure of eTwinning platform.
ETwinning platform has 3 levels:  o   eTwinning.net - which is pubblic

o   eTwinning live – which can be used only by registered person

o   twinspace – which is the space you can only use for porojects.

We talked al little bit more about etwinning live and how it works and I learnt how to edit my account, how to ask to be contacted by someone else or how to contact someone else, how to enter and to  use groups and how to interact with other funtctions of the program.

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At the end of lesson one I could learn how a project on eTwinning looks like and how it works.
I learnt to recognize the phases of te project, how to lead them as a teacher,  how to use them to develope different themes in the curriculum of the classes I should be teaching in in my future...

I think that this last part of the lesson was the best one because it was more concrete and it allows me to see some real project that the speaker did with her students.

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During lesson two I could review the structure of eTwinning with its three sections: the public arrea, etwinning life and Twin spaces.
After that I had the possibility to reflect on how when you use a website ad a teacher you have to pay attention to privacy aspects: you will have to decide which pages will be private and which one will be public.

Later I could discuss with my colleagues and teachers about Twinspaces and how they work but also about the functioning of eTwinning Gruops.

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The first laboraty part of the lesson allowed me to create my  page on one eTwinning's group and modify it by writing something on it, uploading a file, a picture and a video from youtube.

Consequently I had the possibility to see how to set up a project on eTwinning as both: a teacher or an university student.
What I learnt about eTwinning projects is that they always have to be ready to be changes and flexible due to school circumstances that can fastly change students' needs.

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In this lesson I could face a group work with some colleagues.
We decided to focus on the Twin project  called NATURE IS MY CULTURE beacause the day after  the 21th April it was Heart day. We decided this topic also because it's a is connected to several disciplines and it raises students’ awareness about natural and cultural treasures of the world they grow in.
As for the introduction we have choosen to create a quiz with Kahoot because it allows to increase children motivation by being challenging and interesting.
As for orientation we have chosen to do a discussion and, starting from that, to create a map using Cmap.
Laslty, as for communication, we decided to organize a live event because we think that it can be the best way to allow children to communicate and share ideas with others.

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As for the ending part of this lesson we talked about GAMIFICATION.

By the word Gamification we mean getting someone to perform by playing and so using games as motivation to achieve some goals: it improves the results of teaching and learning.
During the lesson we had the possibility to get soome pieces of informations about 4 applications we can use to promote gamification in schools.
The applications we studied are
1.   Genialy
2.    Kahhot
3.    Canva
4.    Book creator
With my group we decide to use Canva to see how students could create a logo for their activities and the example I created is the one at this link: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEcwbDP0g4/9KDGGzt19T7ND_ME9sqTFg/view?utm_content=DAEcwbDP0g4&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink
After the lesson I tried making another file on Canva in which I put my hobbies and her is the link I got: https://www.canva.com/design/DAEcwdnQka8/GgVV5EbBbbk37bl-TtyAZA/view?utm_content=DAEcwdnQka8&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink

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during the last lesson we started talking about communication. This aspect is very important in eTwinning projects and request to teacher to collaborate with partners. I think that communication is vital to have successful projects. I liked a lot the fact that the speaker gave us some tips for effective communication as encourage students, define tasks clearly and create tasks which need communication. Another thing I appreciate was the possibility to think about the outcomes of communication as increasing enthusiasm, motivation, inclusion, social and digital skills

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during the second part of the lesson we talked about evaluation and said that it has to include all the participants, be clear, have scheduled stages and monitor progress. We talked about when to evaluate and I liked a lot the idea to do some evaluations also at the beginning or in the middle of the project. At the end of the theorical lesson we talked about follow up which can be done by using many tools. I think that follow up can be an intresting part of the project even if it starts after the end of the project itself.

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Then we worked in groups. My group decided to present a project based on this aspects for the topics of the lesson

-          collaboration à pupils have to create a logo by using canvaand to put it in a book created by using book creator in which we will put also all the photos about the activities we will do

-          evaluation à by using the app kahoot children will be evaluated. They will have to answer  by some questions and we will evaluate the whole process. We decided to evaluate in this way because kahoot is interactive, it allows children to feel free because it looks like a playing activity and also because they can see in an immediate way their answers à kahoot has been chosen also because it's a way for children to auto-evaluate themselves

-          follow up à children can create a Power Point presentation to show to their parents during the open day of the school. We decided this follow up activity because it can motivate children to work in an active way and to do the best project they can so that other children and adults will see the output

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