Neofita-TIC, a new start

Hello everybody. When I started writing this blog I did it because , as many other eTwinners , I felt really alone in my school. I experienced the difficulty to involve colleagues in  the projects I made with European partners. It was sometime much easier to convince other colleagues from other countries  rather than the colleagues  of my class!

I decided to show what can be done with some simple tools what could implement students motivation and involvement in learning and creating knowledge.

But I’m not very used to manage a blog and I’m not very “social”  I mean, I do not usually go to social media. I'm not a twitter expert and I often get lost on facebook. I do not like to make my life public and in my profession I think that what I do is more important than spending time publicizing it. But   I know  that the dissemination of good practices  is very important and since I strongly believe that eTwinning can offer the right opportunity  to change our teaching and learning approach, I decided to get back to my old attempt to create a blog and give me this new goal: use those channels that for me are the most difficult to adapt even my perception of “social networks”.

After all, it's been 11 years that I love using one: the eTwinning platform that has given me  and my students so much, personally, culturally, ethically and professionally. That’s why I decided to  pick up again my old blog: to show how the eTwinning experience has changed my point of view and also my approach toward self development.

I've always been curious and I've always wanted to change and update my way of seeing things. I'm not afraid to question myself and take the risk of looking for new paths with all them with whom I share the school experience. I believe that one of the important tasks of us educators is to help our students  never lose enthusiasm and curiosity to keep an open mind. So we'll leave the chatter and start again, with a new difficulty: use English and not my mother tongue that is Italian or German that I've been teaching for a long time!