Italian Teachers’rooms

By Paola Arduini, Antonella Ciriello

There are teachers’ rooms in each school in

Europe

Sometimes

Teachers’rooms

are like this one..

OTHER TIMES

they are just like

this one

But there are very special teachers

rooms in Europe..

eTwinning

teachers rooms

IN ITALY

We have different kinds of eTwinning TR:

- general rooms

- regional rooms

For discussion, promotion, questions and

answers..

Numbers..

There are 194 active TR in eTwinning portal:

44 rooms have at least 50 messages

7 out of 44 were created by Italian teachers

Helpdesks

Room Messages

Helpdesk 3939

eTwinning e la realtà 3441

Ideas for teaching English 1232

Web 2.0 applications 790

Sala insegnanti Lombardia 537

Seminari Lazio 236

Reasons of this

success

We can say they are successful because of

the high number of access and the active

participation of members

WHY?

• relaxed style

• Italian language ( so easier to speak about

‘everyday life at school’

• a place where ambassadors and etwinners

can communicate and share their

competences

TS: LOMBARDIACreated by Ambassadors ( Tiziana Cipitelli

2011)

Discussion on regional and local seminars

Coordination among Ambassadors and

regional representatives

Avalability to help newbies

Promotion of National and European events

eTwinning Liguria

Created by a teacher ( Enrica Maragliano, now

Ambassador)

Coordination among Ambassador and new

regional representatives

Discussion of general issues at local level

Promotion of the events

SEMINARI LAZIO

Created by an Ambassador: Françoise Altamura

who organized very active online training since

2010

Training, help and guidelines

Follow up to local/regional seminars

GENERAL TR:ETWINNING E LA REALTA

opened by Laura Maffei to discuss about

everyday life at school and problems about

etwinning projects realization

it follows eTwinning philosophy….

Communication, Collaboration, Sharing

we communicate

( more than 3400 messages)

some threads:

- about Italian teachers' problems

- about ‘finding reliable partners’

- about ‘ how to do something..’

Collaborationwe worked together to realize:

● 6 ebooks about eTwinning projects (another one is going

to be published)

● one Learning event on teachers' rooms : eTwinning goes

social

● collaboration for online webinars

● our work on eTwinning and wikipedia

we share our competences:

we exchange advices, find out solutions to different

problems, give suggestions…

it’s a meeting point between ambassadors and

etwinners…

because everyone has something to learn and to teach

NOWADAYS:

we can talk about eTwinning e la realtà as a

team.. even we didn’t meet each other so

often

The cooperation born in a relaxed space

leaded a group of participant to achieve

significant results as the ebooks

Suggestions for teachers rooms

it’s quiet important that

everyone is at ease ( no

marks, no evaluation...)

it would be useful to have also

some meetings online or to

meet some participants f2f

Not always a bed of roses Some problems you can find in teachers' rooms:

● everyone posts and doesn’t read other reflections

• too many tasks

• nothing to share with others

Let’s try to solve them:

• invite directly people to participate in your room

• involve also other teachers to publish threads

• remember to enter every day and keep up the

conversation

• involve the participants to do something together

• promote the exchanging of good practices

we think that every European

Country could have one

National teachers’room in

etwinning….

but European ones…. would be the best

LET’S TRY TOGETHER!!

WHY NOT?