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by Tom Demortier, Maria Kiouzepi

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Digital Readiness for
European Distance Learning
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Project Summary
This e-book is one of the basic outcomes of  an Erasmus+ KA226 strategic partnership of five schools situated in countries all over Europe: Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Serbia and Belgium. Its title is "Digital Readiness for European Distance Learning" (DIGI.R.E.DI.L) and it lasted 30 months. Partner schools all belong to secondary education, most of them to the vocational one. 

Teachers involved have been quite experienced in the use of ICT and in distance learning long before COVID-19 imposed its restrictions on school life as well. They are also eTwinners and open to innovation.
The main objective of the project was to update the digital competences of teachers and students of partner schools by introducing new Web 2.0 tools, new software and methods that can be used to make distance learning qualitative and fruitful for the educational procedure. The institutions involved shared their knowledge and experience in the use of ICT in education and developed teaching material together. This teaching material has been tested in virtual, mixed but also some regular classes and was uploaded on project Twinspace and blog so as to be available to any teacher in and out of the schools involved. Basic project info like participants, objectives and activities, mobilities and procedures were disseminated in the form of newsletters and the results/content were published in the form of this e-book where all partners contributed.
Project blog
2020-1-EL01-KA226-SCH-094685
Coordinated by Esperino Epaggelmatiko Lykeio Giannitson,Greece

Project Summary
Well established communication even before the project began via Twinspace, WhatsApp group and online Webex meetings has been facilitating partners coordination and effective cooperation. Because of COVID limitations, the project set off through an eTwinning  project and our Twinspace was the space where teachers and students started knowing each other, introducing their school premises and their areas of living and then moving to the introduction of project objectives and started experimenting with some new web tools.

Five intensive training weeks for teachers were realized as total, each one was hosted in a different partner country. Their content was related to new digital tools,innovative software,platforms through presentations, workshops, discussions, evaluations, different ones in each host country.There were also presentations on e-safety and inclusiveness of each country's distance learning and project meetings for its smooth implementation. Just one Transnational Project meeting had been planned to the end of the project to prepare its final report and assess the whole process.
Lots of in and out of schools dissemination practices among them an e-book with web 2.0 tools and tutorials, six Newsletters, a project blog, use of eTwinning platform have been contributing to project results sustainability as well.

The collaborative teaching methods developed by the partners based on new technologies enabled more interdisciplinary and intercultural activities to be carried out in the future in all the institutions involved in the project and better distance learning. The effectiveness and attractiveness of the new teaching solutions were tested by involving students in local and foreign online activities implemented by using newly learned digital tools. Schools became more experienced in managing European projects, better connected to their local networks and more confident to invest in their internationalization.
Our parallel eTwinning Project
Right after the beginning of our KA2 project, partners initiated an eTwinning project (October 2020) with the purpose of using it for sharing new materials and teaching experience,for providing a safe place for students/teachers to communicate and for bringing the partner school communities together through distance learning.When the platform changed to a new one (ESEP),we set up the project from the beginning again and applied for our former materials to be transferred.
Iceland
September 2021
MENNTASKÓLINN Í REYKJAVÍK
Lækjargötu 7, 101 Reykjavík

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