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eTwinning Teachers Rooms Massimiliano D’Innocenzo NSS eTwinning Italy 8th eTwinning UK National Conference Nottingham 21-23 June 2013

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The use of eTwinning Teachers Rooms in Italy

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Page 1: Teachers Rooms

eTwinning Teachers Rooms

Massimiliano D’InnocenzoNSS eTwinning Italy

8th eTwinning UK National Conference Nottingham 21-23 June 2013

Page 2: Teachers Rooms

Teachers Rooms• Introduction• What is/isn’t a TR• Join a TR • Create your TR• Some numbers• Italian experience• Tips and hints

Page 3: Teachers Rooms

What is a Teachers Room…

Teachers Rooms are one of the “social” aspects of eTwinning

They are online spaces created by eTwinners for eTwinners

They are inside the eTwinning Desktop

They (can) cover a wide variety of topics

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What is NOT a Teachers Room…

Teachers Rooms are not…

for partner finding!

Teachers Rooms are not…

designed to develop projects!

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A word cloud to start…

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Search your favourite rooms…

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Featured rooms… Popular rooms…

And rooms you joined…

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Have a look and decide if you want to join…

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You can easily search, found and join as many rooms as you wish…

BUT…

You can also CREATE YOUR OWN ROOMS!!!

“Social” perspective

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How to create your Teachers Rooms

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Give a description to the room

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Choose subject(s) and language(s)

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First activity

Working in little groups, let’s try to propose at list of new TR:

- Discuss about content and aims- Give a title or definition- Insert your proporal here:https://tricider.com/en/brainstorming/wmBO

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At the moment, there are 194 active rooms

44 rooms have at least 50 messages

Helpdesk has a total number of 3566 messages

Ideas for teaching English has 1731 members

7 out of 44 were created by Italian (16%)

Some numbers…

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eTwinning e la realtà is the second room for message

number with 3067 messages

Many Italian rooms are among the first 15 rooms

Message numbersNAME MESSAGES

Helpdesk 3566

eTwinning e la realtà 3067

ideas for teaching English 1181

web 2.0 applications and IT-tools for projects 754

Deutsch & Co. Neue Technologien im Daf Unterricht 677

Mathematical Variety 540

eTwinning Romania 496

Challenging students with Maths in eTwinning 492

Friendly help and advice - Here we are to help one another 427

sala insegnanti Lombardia 396

Ortak arayan Turk ohullarini bu odaya beklyoruz 379

web 2.0 applications and IT-tools for projects 2011 319

Les langues romanes 282

Seminari Lazio 235

How work and where use the tools of Desktop and TwinSpace (Bulgarian) 231

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Italian rooms (in Italian) have not so many members (language is a barrier)

English is largely the most used language and can attract more users.

Members numbers

ROOM MEMBERS

ideas for teaching English 1731

web 2.0 applications and IT-tools for projects 1634

Ortak arayan Turk ohullarini bu odaya beklyoruz 1536

Helpdesk 1377

A shortcut for Comenius preparatory visits 903

web 2.0 applications and IT-tools for projects 2011 902

Friendly help and advice - Here we are to help one another 897

Social Solidarity 790

eTwinning Weeks 2012 - Project! Project! Project! 753

Deutsch & Co. Neue Technologien im Daf Unterricht 722

Promoting eTwinning 682

Primary School Teachers (4-11 years old) 663

eTwinning Romania 524

Comparing different educational systems in Europe 508

Les langues romanes 454

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Sala insegnanti Lombardia is the forth

room 5,1

eTwinning Liguria is

the seventh room 2,27

Seminari Lazio is the

tenth room 1,85

Message numbers per participant

ROOMAVERAGE

MSG/MEMBER

eTwinning e la realtà 12,78

Mathematical Variety 7,50

Helpdesk Istanbul 5,24

sala insegnanti Lombardia 5,08

HUNgarikum 3,00

Helpdesk 2,59

eTwinning Liguria 2,27

Teaching Evolution in Europe 1,97

eTwinning training 1,92

Seminari Lazio 1,85

HELP/ПОМОЩ за българските eTwinn-eри 1,71

Physical Education, what do you teach and how? 1,56

Challenging students with Maths in eTwinning 1,53

How work and where use the tools of Desktop and TwinSpace (Bulgarian) 1,22

Deutsch & Co. Neue Technologien im Daf Unterricht 0,94

eTwinning e la realtà is the first room with 12,6

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Sala insegnanti Lombardia has 0,75

Deutsch & Co. (one the first rooms active since

2010) has 0,70

Message numbers per dayeTwinning e la realtà is the first room with 5,55 messages

per day of activities (launched in december 2011)

NAME msg/day

eTwinning e la realtà 5,55

Helpdesk 4,31

Organization and management of teacher training 2,50

ideas for teaching English 1,50

Mathematical Variety 1,37

Helpdesk Istanbul 1,25

Friendly help and advice - Here we are to help one another 1,11

eTwinning training 1,09

Ortak arayan Turk ohullarini bu odaya beklyoruz 0,86

How work and where use the tools of Desktop and TwinSpace (Bulgarian) 0,84

web 2.0 applications and IT-tools for projects 0,77

sala insegnanti Lombardia 0,75

Deutsch & Co. Neue Technologien im Daf Unterricht 0,70

Challenging students with Maths in eTwinning 0,64

eTwinning Romania 0,57

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Teachers Rooms in Italy

General

Regional– For discussion and promotion– For training

Specific

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Regional Rooms: Sala insegnanti LombardiaCreated by Ambassadors (end of 2011)

Discussion on regional/local seminars

Coordination among Ambassadors and regional representatives

Availability to help newbies

Promotion of national and European events

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Regional Rooms: eTwinning LiguriaCreated by a teacher, due to the lack of a network of ambassadors/representatives

Coordination among Ambassadors and new regional representatives

Discussion of general issues at local level

Promotion of the involvement of Ambassadors at local/regional level

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Regional Rooms: Seminari LazioCreated by an ambassador very active in online training, active since 2010

Training, help and guides

Follow-up to regional/local seminar

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General Room: eTwinning e la realtàCreated by Ambassadors

Discussion on general and relevant topics, inside and outside eTwinning

Open place where teachers are free to give their opinion and comments

Italian NSS decided to follow in depth this room (and then also others)

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eTwinning e la realtà:examples from the room

TFA – active and practical training– Launched by an ambassador involved in

teachers training– NSS discovered many Amb. involved– And decided to join the European taskforce

and start a pilot activities with trainees

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eTwinning e la realtà:examples from the room

E-books– A common goal – A clear and tangible result– Each one could contribute according to his/her

preferences– Six books already online!– The last ebook http://it.calameo.com/read

/0012527443d513317d09f

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Hints and tips…

Check if your room already exists

Define the objectives

Give precise and relevant information, aiming to attract teachers interested in

Invite your contacts

Advertise your room in your desktop journal

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Hints and tips…

Be present in your room

Don’t act as the “owner” of the room, you could be the moderator, but not alone

Post questions, ask others point of view, involve participants

Try to bring out some conclusions, outputs, products

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Strengths & WeaknessesLanguage: English can help if you wish to involve teachers from all over Europe in the same discussion

Topics: not all topics are interesting for each European teacher, so try to indentify on what it may be worth discussing

Culture: certain Europeans are more “shy”, some others are there willing to chat! Find your way!

eTwinning and…: Teachers Rooms are inside eTwinnig, but not only for eTwinning!

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Second activity

1. Using the online tool, please vote for your favorite room!

https://tricider.com/en/brainstorming/wmBO

2. Let’s try to open your new Teachers Room!

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Useful links

Zen and the art of Teachers Rooms MaintenanceVideotutorial:How to create a new roomManaging a Teachers roomThanks to our Ambassador Laura Maffei

eTwinning e la realtà:- ebook n. 4 (in English) - ebook n. 5 (multilingual)- ebook n. 6 (multilingual)Thanks to Laura Maffei and all the teachers involved in the TRs

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Massimiliano D’InnocenzoNSS eTwinning [email protected] eTwinning ItaliaTwitter eTwinning_Ita – max_dinnocenzo

Thank you for your attention!