Download - Teachers Rooms
eTwinning Teachers Rooms
Massimiliano D’InnocenzoNSS eTwinning Italy
8th eTwinning UK National Conference Nottingham 21-23 June 2013
Teachers Rooms• Introduction• What is/isn’t a TR• Join a TR • Create your TR• Some numbers• Italian experience• Tips and hints
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
What is NOT a Teachers Room…
Teachers Rooms are not…
for partner finding!
Teachers Rooms are not…
designed to develop projects!
A word cloud to start…
Search your favourite rooms…
Featured rooms… Popular rooms…
And rooms you joined…
Have a look and decide if you want to join…
You can easily search, found and join as many rooms as you wish…
BUT…
You can also CREATE YOUR OWN ROOMS!!!
“Social” perspective
How to create your Teachers Rooms
Give a description to the room
Choose subject(s) and language(s)
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
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…
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
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
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
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
Teachers Rooms in Italy
General
Regional– For discussion and promotion– For training
Specific
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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!
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!
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
Massimiliano D’InnocenzoNSS eTwinning [email protected] eTwinning ItaliaTwitter eTwinning_Ita – max_dinnocenzo
Thank you for your attention!