1. eTwinning the community for
schools in Europe
BETT 2013, London UK
Anne Gilleran
Central Support Service, Brussels

2. What is project management?
Thinking, reflecting, planning,
predicting, evaluating...
Basically, it’s an investment of
time and effort
Invest: to spend or devote for future advantage or
benefit

3. Three tips
1. At the beginning, relax and look
forward
2. During the project, relax and look
around
3. At the end, relax and look back

4. Things to agree BEFORE
Detect your needs:
- What you are not happy with in
your teaching
- What you want to improve
- What you want to try
- What you can learn from each
other

5. Things to agree BEFORE
Involve your students:
-
What they’d like to do
How they’d like to learn
What they already know
What they can teach you
Ask them! Negotiate with them!

6. Things to agree BEFORE
Some organization issues:
- Number and age of students
- Time to work in the project per
week/month
- Holiday periods
- Timing
- School ICT facilities
- Number of schools involved
- Teachers/subjects per school

7. Things to agree BEFORE
Set the objectives:
-
Concrete
Realistic
Measurable
What final products are expected?
How these products relate to the
objectives?
- How will they be evaluated?

8. Things to agree BEFORE
Done?
Now, try to point out the strenghts
and weaknesses of your plan
Revise

9. Aim at quality!
A quality project doesn’t have to be
spectacular,
difficult,
complex,
long,
or sophisticated.
A quality project just has to be
EFFICIENT
Ask your NSS for quality criteria before
starting

10. Practice 1 (20 min.)
Work in groups. If some possible partners are
here with you, join them.
1. Define some objectives for your project
idea
2. What concrete results/final products are
expected for these objectives?
3. How will you assess them?

11. Things to do DURING
Think on the activities:
-
Are they motivating?
Are they relevant?
Do they require collaboration?
Do NOT choose the tools first.
Think upside down!

12. Things to do DURING
Monitoring:
- Use the Project Cards
- Evaluate
- How will you evaluate? Use
rubrics
- Reflect, rethink, revise

13. What is a rubric?
Source: http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/tidepoolunit/rubrics/collrubric.html

14. Practice 2 (20 minutes)
1. Design an activity for which
collaboration is necessary
2. Think on an activity for which you
don’t know which tool to use.
3. Describe #2 at
http://wallwisher.com/wall/strunjan

15. Things to make you think AFTER
Evaluate the project (remember
the rubrics?):
- Ask students and teachers
- Check objectives and results
- What would you change in further
projects?

16. Things to make you think AFTER
Reorganize material:
- Can a third person follow the
development of the project?
- Is the TwinSpace clear?
- Is there enough documentation?
- What should be public and what
should be kept private?

17. Things to make you think AFTER
Are you satisfied? Then, why don’t
you go for a Quality Label?
- Ask your NSS
- Create a “visitor” for evaluators
- QL application is only a guide for
evaluators: if you have more
documentation, add it in the TwinSpace
- Put yourself in the place of an evaluator:
is everything clear?

25. One most important tip
Have fun!

26. Practice 3 (10 minutes)
- Think in a dissemination
campaing.
- How can you make the project
sustainable in your school?
- Which of the 6 quality criteria will
be the most difficult to reach? And
the easiest?

27. Thanks for your attention
Diego Rojas, NSS Spain
diego.rojas@ite.educacion.es
Massimiliano D’Innocenzo, NSS Italy
m.dinnocenzo@indire.it
Download at:
http://issuu.com/ite_europa/docs/project_management_slovenia