Fernando Rui Campos, National Technical Coordinator, Ministry Education and Science - Portugal.

Teacher collaboration community

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iTEC Closing Conference – 27 may 11H30 Brussels

Global iTEC project community

Country

Global

Global

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iTEC Team (EUN website)

NPC

PedagogicalCoordination

NTC

Technical Coordination

National teacher communities Country

Piloting cycles

3Pre-pilots

3Participatory

Design Groups

April 2011

March 2014

iTEC Piloting cycles - Portugal11

5Case study+ WidgetStore

c.s.

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Training and support• For each piloting cycle, face-to-face and online training

• Moodle Community• Organised by piloting cycles: resources, forums – pedagogical and technological (support, experience sharing, resources, tools, classroom planning

• Interaction by e-mail, Skype, phone4

Access to new resources and

Learning Ativities

iTEC digital Tools

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Portuguese community – an example

Face-to-Face Moderation

Support

Resources

Learning with teachers

Online meeting

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Specific communities

NTCLocal Support &

Technical Leadership

Teachers’ Guidance

Widgets community Blog

A case study from the Widget Store pilot7

Specialized communities - Widget Blog

Context:

Classroom examples

http://itecwidgetsportugal.blogspot.pt/p/apresentacao.html8

Pedagogical Forum iTEC Community

2784 visits

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120 themes

1) – Categories developed by Lisbon University; 2) The letter size is proportional to the number of occurrences 9

Technical Forum iTEC Community (C4)

577 visits

1) – Categories developed by Lisbon University; 2) The letter size is proportional to the number of occurrences

1)

16 themes

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Portuguese iTEC Website

11http://itec.dge.mec.pt/

Cycle 5 teachers websites improvements

Teachers revisits their colleagues

websites

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70 Learning Activities inserted in the Composer tool.

50 websites made by the students as a final produt from the iTEC activities: http://itec.dge.mec.pt/materiais/

Teachers

NTCPTC

National teacher

communities

Teachers support to studentswebsite

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Student outputs

Maths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L04mJirnEEM#t=50

Widget

14Websites Lists - http://itec.dge.mec.pt/materiais/

Science – experimental work example

Student outputs

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Next Steps DGE has an extended Moodle-based community of practice (not

public for now), where resources, experiences, best practices will be shared

DGE intends to create a group of 5 iTEC ambassadors, in each Local Education Authority

Update iTEC national website: http://itec.dge.mec.pt/ Tools and Resources on Scenario Development Environment and

Composer DGE intends to work with 4-5 ICT Competence Centres

to provide training for the future iTEC teachers and with 5 national representatives of the Teacher Training Centres for the same purpose (CPD)

DGE intends to develop an iTEC MOOC DGE intends to deliver up to 3 webinars 16

For further information

The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP7 programme – project iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (Grant agreement Nº 257566). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein.

WEB:

http://itec.dge.mec.pt/EMAIL:

itec@dge.mec.pt

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