Results from the Varna
“Six Thinking Hats workshop”
Chania PDW 1-3 October 2009
Alexandra Tosi
Unità Nazionale eTwinning Italia
Agenzia Scuola
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What is the role of
eTwinning Ambassadors
in the eTwinning
Community?
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Green hat results (creativity)
• Teachers’ training and support (T&S)
• Promotion and information activities (P&I)
• New activities ideas for Ambassadors (A4A)
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Teachers’ training and support
(T&S)
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T&S
Help organize and act as speakers, trainers,
moderators during European level events,
such as:
• European conference
• PDW
• Seminars and other events
• eTwinning Summer School
This will help develop multilingual aspects of
the eTwinning Community!
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T&S
Moderate and animate the eTwinning online
Community:
• moderating eTwinning thematic groups
• organizing online Learning Laboratories
• tutoring new comers
• Taking part to other online events
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T&S
Help identify, document and showcase best
practices and case studies
• Interviewing teachers
• Writing articles
• Monitoring projects
• Detecting most frequent problems and ways to
overcome difficulties
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T&S
• Lead an European study of issues commonly
facing schools involved in eTwinning (this
could be a basis for developing future
Learning Events)
• Survey of needs at ground level in order to
inform policies at European level
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eTwinning promotion and
information
(P&I)
i.e. eTwinning Back to School Campaing
and eTwinning 5th Anniversary
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P&I
• Help organize competitions (video, e-cards,
games, calendars etc.)
• Organize coordinated promotional events with
other countries during eTwinning weeks (e.g.
eTwinning marathonon Czech’s model)
• Present case studies at Head teacher meetings
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P&I
• Help organize European Events that involve
pupils and the whole school community, run
locally but within a common European
framework. Two examples:
– eTwinning Bus starting from the European
Conference in Seville and travelling across
Europe)
– Competition for the best eTwinning birthday
cake
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Activities for Ambassadors
(A4A)
There should be some official recognition of
Ambassador on the national and maybe international
level (e.g. a label, certificate).
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A4A
• More face to face meetings for ambassadors,
for instance during the European eTwinning
Conference
• Summer Camp for ambassadors run by
ambassadors (peer to peer)
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A4A
• Create and share a database of European
ambassadors’ expertise and specific
professional interests to foster exchange and
collaboration
• Organize international exchanges of
ambassadors (e.g. bilateral) for training and
development (both as speakers and experts in
other nations’ events, and as job shadowing)
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A4A
Develop and better structure the online ambassadors’
community:
– Introducing a ‘Buddy’ system whereby
experienced ambassadors mentor inexperienced
ones, across countries;
– Creating online groups based on FAQs –
moderated by ambassador/group of ambassadors
per country per month (‘hot seat’ idea);
– Developing learning events and working groups
only for ambassadors
– Getting people together at given moments with a
scheduled calendar.
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Thank you!
You will continue the work your colleagues
started in Varna during the last workshop,
where you will work on some of these ideas!
[email protected]
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