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This seminar was a contact seminar with the primary objective to start school mobility and eTwinning projects in the new Erasmus+-Programme (2021-2027). We had 21 participants from 8 countries in our online seminar. Special turn this time: we cooperated with the organisation “Lie Detectors” for our content about Media Literacy and Disinformation. They did a good job.

Preparation and methodological approach: Comparable to our TCA “Boosting digital…”.

In 2022 we were convinced that most of our teachers already had sufficient experiences in online seminars. Therefore, we skipped sending them tech-tips / manuals on how to work with the conference tool Webex. We made a few supporting materials available via the padlet. Furthermore, learning from past online seminars, we also skipped our preparing steps / tasks in eTwinning and on the padlet. We noticed most of our teachers have well packed everyday life with no extra time to spare. We only build one padlet with all informationen concerning the seminar collected in one place.

On seminar days we aimed at a mix of theory and praxis, please find our programme uploaded.

For the preparing and organising procedure see our outcome documentation from the TCA “Boosting digital…”.

Our “core-Team” this time were two persons: one doing the administrative work, the other one doing the conceptive work and the moderation during the seminar. Additional there are several presenters appearing, who were partly colleagues of us and luckily also watching the chat. We had one back-up colleague watching the wellbeing of the conference nearby.

The seminar went well, due to our diligent preparation. But there were many questions about the TwinSpace and eTwinning itself.

During the seminar we sent the sphinx link and tried to answer all appearing questions about eTwinning, the Erasmus+ programme and realising project ideas. After the seminar we sent a “customer satisfaction” link and shared the presentations via our padlet.

Seminar participants:

 will learn from a journalist who works with the Lie Detectors and get first-hand experience on the topic of “fake news”

 will receive pedagogical material for the classroom 

 will learn from Erasmus+ best practice projects in the field of media literacy and disinformation and develop ideas for projects on the topic 

 will acquire the know-how to apply for a school mobility project under Key action 1 in the new Erasmus+ programme

 will learn how to start a virtual project on the eTwinning platform

 will be connected to teachers in other programme countries with similar interests who could be partners in future projects

 will understand what makes a good quality project (concepts for learning mobility and blended mobility, thematic cooperation projects on the eTwinning-platform)