Last Day
Back home after traveling for hours and I can’t stop thinking about the conference and its impact.
Marc Durando’s closing speech was very interesting indeed. His suggestion that we are moving from e-confidence to e-maturity is a useful distinction. However, I think we should all keep in mind that different schools will be at a different part of the spectre even in the same country. At some point Mr Durando said: “What is ICT in schools? Is it anything more than web searches, Powerpoint presentations and word processing?� I hope that at some schools it is much more than this but in my school if I mange to do all these things I will have achieved my goals 200%.
He also talked about the basic characteristics of e-twinning, namely the fact that it is simple, reliable, multilingual, project and practice oriented, community building. All these characteristics add to its charm and these are the reasons it has been so successful and so loved by teachers and students all over Europe.
But I think that the main reason we do all these things and the answer to the question of my last post may be found in the closing quotation by Albert Einstein which I reproduce as well as I remember it: “…to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge�.
Thanks a lot to all the organizers for a very good conference. See you all next year!
Anna Varna – e-twinning ambassador, English teacher, Larissa, Greece
The Greek delegation in full plus Kiki Haynes (of Greek origins)