My name is Kristina and I am a gymnasium English Teacher at Kaunas r. Garliava Juozas Luksa gymnasium, project coordinator, PhD student in Education Science and college lecturer. My town Garliava is near a nice city - Kaunas, the second largest one in Lithuania.

I am a group member Bringing eSafety into eTwinning projects,  Media Literacy and Disinformation, Inclusive Education and e Twinning schools.  

I lead 4 e Twinning projects.

I am a mother of two daughters - one 25 another 7:) and I am mad about e Twinning learning and challenge.

I am fond of drinking coffee, llong-life learning and travelling. My reccent interest is learning the Japanese language. 

My  expectations  - to be better prepared for the 21st century learning content as a teacher, a project coordinator and the teachers' trainer at the expertise level.

I’m Carla Freitas and I’m 51 years old. I live in Lousada, a nice village near Oporto, the second major city of Portugal and my hometown. As you can see I’m Portuguese and I teach English and German at Secondary school in Airães, Felgueiras. As I’m a member of the board my free time has shrunk considerably but when I had it I loved to stroll with family, hang out with friends, go to the cinema or theatre, read and dance. I love to dance and I also love to travel and know other countries, cultures and ways of living. I’ve participated in an Erasmus+ project and lead one Etwinning project.

I want to be a better prepared teacher for the 21st century learning challenges.

I want to know more about blended learning and how to improve my teaching practices. Much has been learnt during this emergency remote teaching due to covid-19, but it’s always important to develop teaching methods so that our students can effectively learn in a more motivated way.

During this pandemic, I often think that we are all doing our best to teach but are our students really learning?

Hoping to learn more throughout this MOOC. 

Sharing some images of the place where I live.

This is the third course I take at The Teacher Academy. As in previous courses, I hope to learn and be inspired by the work proposals and the moments of reflection that The Teacher Academy gives us.

See you soon!

My name is Emilia Lopes 

I'm a geography teacher in high school I'm now in the ministry of education as a school support team

The school context with distance learning has been a challenge overcome. It has created new challenges and teaching-learning contexts.

I hope to finish this course enriched with all the experiences and suggestions shared here.
See You soon 

I am a kindergarten teacher at FMV Private Ayazağa Işık Kindergarten in İstanbul, Turkey. My students are 5-6 years old. I am the digital leader of our school. I design lesson plans and tools for online classes and face-to-face classes. I am a Montessori and IB PYP teacher. I am in the Early Childhood Blended Learning Project in E-Twinning. I took Flipped Learnning trainings. I want to improve myself in blended learning.

The use of Blended learning, which has become a fundamental tool in recent months, will in the future be the basis of the teaching-learning process in all teaching cycles. The better prepared we are, the better service we will provide to our students.

My name is Sabine Bermel and I teach English and History at a secondary school in Rhineland-Palatinate in the west of Germany. 

I am looking forward to getting to know teachers from all around the world and exchanging experiences of remote teaching. Despite of all the chaos and fear that the pandemic has brought us, a positive side are all the new things I have learned about using digital tools in the online classroom. Keeping up some of the positive effects of blended learning after the pandemic might be beneficial for our students. 

I would like to learn more about the opportunities that blended learning can offer talented and gifted students who sometimes feel bored in traditional teaching environments.

I am currently teaching students of all levels.  I absolutely love it!  Teaching students to love and value reading and writing is my passion.

I use various forms of technology daily in my classroom and I am always looking for ways to make my teaching more effective.  I use blended learning and visual-based lessons in my classroom because I feel that is the way to not only keep my students engaged and on-task, but also helps them to take responsibility for their learning. 

My name is Tassos and I teach ICT/ CS at a Junior High School in Athens.
I've been using BL for the last 10 years+. I prefer the moodle platform. 
I am looking forward to exchanging experiences of remote teaching and learning with teachers from all around the world 

I’m an English teacher from Maia, Portugal. I look forward for this MOOC and hope to improve my teaching practices.

This pandemic situation has shown that there are benefits of using online learning platforms in our practices. Therefore, it is now a great opportunity to develop e-learning practices in our schools. And there is so much to discover!

I hope to know more about blended learning and to discover new tools  and / or methodologies than i can rely on my classes in order to improve my teaching practices.

  And, of course, last but not the least, I hope to learn a lot when you all share your excellent practices!!! 

         Stonebridge of Pyli

I believe in Europe and I am very grateful that I have enrolled in this course. I am enthusiastic about the learning opportunities for students and about their learning goals and achievements. I hope to acquire some  key teacher competences required for a successful implementation of blended learning.

I have enrolled in this course in order to learn tools, strategies and more about using blended learning. 😊

I teach language and literature in a secondary school in Chania (Greece).I joined this course because I would like to improve my teaching strategies and find out new ways to motivate my students. 

I have a previous experience on implementing blended learning on Higher Education for several years. I am doing this course intending to refresh my competencies, but also to really learn more about tools and methods to fully apply the fundamental value of blended learning, and to feel able to implement that with success as soon as I got an opportunity to do that.

My name is Vassiliki.  I’m a teacher of the Greek language. The recent experience in distance education was my motivation to participate in this MOOC. I hope to have answers to some of my questions about how I will be more effective in my work.

my knowledge about blended learning and like quite all of you I want to improve my teaching methods, I would like to do my training more attractive and interesting 

I’m Maria Antonietta and I teach English in a primary school (from 1st to 5th Grade). I live in Alatri, a nice town near Rome.  I’m a member of my school board and I lead three Erasmus projects. 

Both last year and this we had to work in remote learning with classes. Now  our school is provided with tools as google classroom and even devices for students to be lend.

Students are missing the opportunity of sharing experiences together.

This year we were at school from September to February, then we had to close again in March.  Now, after Easter holiday,  we are again at school, but with masks and distance. 

 I've been trying to integrate blended teaching in my practice before the pandemic, but my colleagues were not too excited about it. I think that the pandemic is changing this attitude and is giving teachers the chance to practice blended teaching in daily teaching practice. 

Now  I'm joining the course for many reasons. First of all to reflect on what I have learnt and what I have done during distance teaching, to learn more about blended learning  and to see how other teachers work and what I can learn from them.

I am very happy to be in this group because I want to be a better prepared teacher in order to face future learning and teaching challenges .

I am a teacher of English at a Primary School in Athens and I am interested in new ideas and techniques..