Tiziana Saponaro

Tiziana Saponaro, Italy, Secondary, Technical Institute, ESP, Educational Technology

International certified teacher of English, Italian and Spanish (with 20- plus years of experience in public schools and international boarding schools in Switzerland, Italy and the United States). Teacher trainer, and freelance translator. Mother tongue: Italian; proficiency in English, fluent in Spanish.

I have been working as a language teacher in language schools (and as a freelance translator for the University of Verona, Italy), teaching ESL in an international boarding school in Italy for nine years, teaching Italian and English in an international boarding school in Switzerland for seven years, and teaching Spanish as an exchange teacher for a year in the USA, 2000/2001 (Virginia).

I give presentations about implementing technology in education. My courses are centered around using the iPad to enhance learning and teaching. They focus on using the iPad as a teaching aid, lesson ideas, educational apps and iPad tips.

Teaching with the iPad in a Flipped Classroom - currently offline
Creative ways to use the iPad in teaching and ideas for engaging students through effective instructional methods and technology.

Theme: edtech, collaborative learning, iPad, apps, methodology, flipped classroom

Miriam Paternoster

Miriam Paternoster, Italy, Secondary, Art

I’m an Italian art teacher and I'm teaching in a Middle School of North Italy. I was born and raised in a small village of North Italy. My Secondary School education specialized in Art and Decoration and my graduation was in Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.

I then specialised in restoration at the National School of Restoration “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” in Florence, and I worked in many Italian cities.

I left Italy with my three children to accompany my husband, a general surgeon, for his volunteer work with “Doctors with Africa Cuamm” in Ethiopia and in Tanzania for four years. Later I worked as Art Teacher at Middle School in Italy and since 2011 I have lived with my family in London, Wales and Bristol, where my husband was working. Since 2008 I worked on my blog to share, swap and explore lessons, educational systems, techniques and creations in other classrooms around the world.

Arte a Scuola
The title means Art at School: this blog is a place to share, swap, and explore lessons, educational systems, art techniques and creations in other art classrooms around the world, in order to promote the creativity in the classroom and in life.

Theme: art lesson, painting, drawing, clay, art & technology, teaching art, art techniques

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Maria Filomia

Maria Filomia, Italy, Adult, ICT

Hello! I'm a Ph.D in Scienze Umane e dell'educazione. I'm an educator, an expert in family education, and I have taught in the Media Education laboratories at the Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione. My research area is media education, with particular interest in the relationship between families and media.

My research areas include school activities with particular interest in Whiteboard.

Mum4parents
Mum4parents is a desire to be when I grow by analyzing the data of my research for a PhD, I realized that most of the parents has a limited knowledge related to new technologies and feels inadequate in respect of their children.

Then I dreamed that a blog could become a point of reference, a space for dialogue, a place of shared reflections, a blog in which to provide the wealth of knowledge and skills that I was gradually building up.

Theme: education, school, learning, parenting

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Marina Prete

Marina Prete, Italy, Primary, Adult, English FL

Teacher in a primary school; teacher trainer: I teach both English to colleagues (they have to reach B1) and methodology for primary school teaching.

Reach your B1
It is a blog for a group of Italian primary school teachers, who are going to be tested for B1 level; following the posts, they should be able to continue their self learning.

English Materials
This is a blog for primary school children, who can revise, practice, play with English. There is something for teachers and parents as well. I often use this blog with the IWB, because there are a lot of ready to use materials.

Theme: english learning, english lessons, B1, adult education, self learning, Italian primary teachers, lifelong learning, teacher education, english for young learners, efl, iwb, clil, english teaching

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Emanuela Pulvirenti

Emanuela Pulvirenti, Sicilia, Italia, Istruzione Superiore, Secondaria, Liceo Scientifico, Storia dell'arte, Disegno, Creatività, Classe di Concorso A025

Mi chiamo Emanuela Pulvirenti e sono un architetto. Ho conseguito il Dottorato di Ricerca in Fisica Tecnica Ambientale e sono specializzata in progettazione illuminotecnica. Dal 2006 insegno anche Disegno e Storia dell'arte nelle Scuole secondarie superiori e mi interesso di didattica digitale, e-learning, CLIL e altre pratiche innovative nel campo dell'insegnamento scolastico. Dal 2010 ho aperto il sito www.didatticarte.it nel quale raccolgo tutti i miei materiali didattici.

Didatticarteblog
Suggerimenti didattici per studiare efficacemente la storia dell'arte e scoprire la propria creatività

Theme: didattica, arte, comunicazione visiva, creatività, storia dell'arte

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Jonny Liddell

Jonny Liddell, Italy, K12, Edtech

My name is Jonny and I am a teacher of Physics and a Deputy Headteacher in an international school in Italy. I started off my career in the state sector in London before moving to Tokyo where I worked as an Assistant Headteacher.

If you want to know a bit more about me, you can follow my other blog here (link will be added soon) where I write about teaching, learning and life in general. I am absolutely passionate about the use of technology in education, especially when it is free!

Free tech for schools - currently offline
A blog to help teachers, school leaders and administrators make the most of free technology.

Theme: edchat, edtech, edutech

Valentina Morgana

Valentina Morgana, Italia, Secondary, English

Valentina Morgana has been teaching English to young learners and teenagers in Italy for 8 years. She is an ELT material writer. She is also a Cambridge DELTA student.

She is passionate about English and young learners. She is strongly interested in web 2.0 and introducing technology in the language classroom.

ELT Traveller box
ELT Traveller box is a collection of articles, lesson ideas and insights on ELT webtools and YLs.

Theme: YL, YLeng, edtech, ELT, young learner,s esl, teaching, literature

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Gianfranco D'Aversa

Gianfranco D'Aversa, Italy, Adult, Technology Integration in Education

Gianfranco D'Aversa is an ICT Teacher, Apple Distinguished Educator and a Google Certified Teacher. He is also a working designer and editor with expertise in Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver and Photoshop. His passion for teaching also can be seen in the wide range of students that he tutors one-on-one on a regular basis.

He leads workshops on web design, digital graphic, interactive and cooperative learning to teachers and media professionals. He enjoys helping others learn and is always trying to expand his knowledge. As the founder & creative director at Digital Media Center, Gianfranco is responsible for creating the strategies, project plans, wireframes and design proofs for all our client websites.

He's obsessed with details and even more obsessed with making sure every website is pixel perfect. His design style can be described as clean, minimalistic and user-friendly. Mastering Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash along with XHTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Better teaching, more learning - currently offline
"Better teaching, more learning" is a site that does away with the hours of searching the net for the right instructional technology resources for you. "Better teaching, more learning" is the one stop location for everything related to educational technology.

It is the site to go to network with educators and professionals around the world in order to share best practices when it comes to teaching with technology.

Theme: technology, education, 2.0 classroom

Amelia G.S.

Amelia G.S., España, Secundaria

Profesora de E.S.O. y Bachillerato.

Navegando con Mercurio
Blog dedicado al mundo clásico y a la literatura española.

Theme: educación, enseñanza secundaria, enseñanza media, cultura, humanidades, literatura, blogs, mundo clásico, españa, grecia, italia, historia, arte

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Massimiliano Ferrari

Massimiliano Ferrari, Italy, Adult, Further Training, Corporate Training Compliance, ICT Training, Procedures, Sales Training, Health

E-learning consultant since 2005 (in the Elearnit network). Expert in e-learning project management and in content design and authoring.

Elearnit - Know How to Know!
Elearnit is specialized in corporate training projects. On our website and blog we mainly report case histories and share our experiences.

Theme: corporate e-learning, learning management systems, e-learning consulting

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Susanne Biscosi

Susanne Biscosi, Italy, Secondary Education

I'm a teacher for languages, though in the past 10 years I've been teaching mainly German as a foreign language. Recently I've developed quite an enthusiasm for blogging because I like communicating through words, arts and media.

sosdeutsch - currently offline
I started this blog-experiment to give my students the opportunity to get more information about what and about how to study and not feel alone when copying with difficulties.

Theme: foreign language teaching and learning, education

Alberto Pastorelli

Alberto Pastorelli, Italy, Tertiary, Adult, e-learning

Consultant in elearning and web management since 2002, I work with many medium and large companies in different areas.
In collaboration with "Elearnit" I followed several projects concerning:
- Implementation and customization of LMSs
- Elearning Project Management
- Course and training process design
- Training for corporate empowerment on elearning management and rapid-elearning authoring.

Elearnit - Know How To Know
Updates and Case histories from the e-learning world.

Theme: e-learning, rapid e-learning, online courses

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Anna Maria Irto

Anna Maria Irto, Italy, Primary, English, Social Sciences

English teacher with a history in international business, studied as interpreter translator.

SCREAMINGSCREENS
It is a blog on the human rights. Our aim is to let people know about the human rights and take responsibility.

Theme: human rights, esl

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Giuseppe Alfredo Ruggi

Giuseppe Alfredo Ruggi, Italy, Scuola Secondaria di II Grado, Lab. di Cucina e Ristorazione in un Istituto Professionale Statale

Sono un docente di Cucina e di Ristorazione in un istituto alberghiero. Ho realizzato questo spazio per scambiare con i miei alunni (e non solo) esperienze gastronomiche, ricette, tecniche corrette, e notizie varie nel e dall'infinito mondo della Ristorazione.

Tutto il piacere del saper cucinare e soprattutto assaporare.... da condividere con tutti! Inoltre utilizzo questo blog a scopo didattico inserendo periodicamente lezioni sia di cucina che di Ristorazione: in classe con l'ausilio di nuove tecnologie come la L.I.M. (lavagna interattiva multimediale) e a distanza come valido strumenti di e-learning.

Utilizzando nuove metodologie della didattica 2.0 e consolidando quelle già esistenti grazie a schemi, mappe concettuali, cruciverba e podcast, riesco ad approcciarmi in maniera totalmente nuova ed interessante stimolando e catturando l'attenzione de ragazzi...

Ristorazione con Ruggi
Cucina, argomenti inerenti alla programmazione della mia materia.

Theme: cooking, restaurant, hotel management, recipes, elearning 2.0, distance learning

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Silvia Purpuri

Silvia Purpuri, Italy, Adult

EFL, ESL and Italian teacher f2f and online, elearning course developer.

Sunflower EFL
A blog on elearning and the use of ICT in Education.

Theme: elearning, education, EFL, ESL, Italian, ICT, Web 2.0, LMS, online

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Rossella Grenci

Rossella Grenci, Italy, Primary

Speech therapist and author, my interest is about dyslexia.

Rossella Grenci
Alternative education and creativity is a modality to learn.

Theme: dyslexia, education, psychology

Francesca Mancini

Francesca Mancini, Italy, Secondary

Degree in MFL and master in Open Distant Leaning and School Management. Teacher trainer and E-tutor. English teacher fond of technology applied to linguistics and language teaching. I also love travelling and gardening.

Tobindia francesca's blog
Educational blog full of podcasts and reflections on teaching and storytelling.

Theme: podcast, storytelling

Virginia Alberti

Virginia Alberti, Italia, Secondaria di 2^Grado, Matematica

Insegno all'ITIS e LST B.Castelli di Brescia e nella scuola ospedale del nosocomio cittadino; mi occupo di elearnig e sono specializzata in questo settore anche come formatore per docenti (etutor per la scuola, tutor m@t.abel e formatore LIM); sono referente nel mio istituto di alcuni progetti relativi all'insegnamento della matematica con l'utilizzo di strumenti del web2.0.

MATitiS

Theme: matematica, statistica, elearning, matematica con web2.0

Laura Fedeli

Laura Fedeli, Italy, Adult, Online Tutoring

I hold a Master of Science degree in “Instructional technology and distance education” and I'm currently a PhD candidate in e-Learning, Knowledge Management and Psychology of Communication.

I have been working as researcher in European Projects and teaching both face to face and online courses at the Faculty of Education of University of Macerata where I'm also currently involved in online tutoring and e-learning courses’ design.

Tutor online: formazione, ricerca e condivisione
The blog was born as a reflection tool for students enrolled in a post-lauream course for online tutors. It is now developing as a multi-author blog to become a resource for tutors providing information about certifications, conferences, research in the same field.

Theme: tutoring, e-learning

Nadia Zaramella

Nadia Zaramella, Italy, Secondary, English as a Foreign Language

I live in the North-East of Italy and I teach English as a foreign language to kids aged 11-13. I believe technology can be used to support and enhance learning. I am interested in Web 2.0 and e-learning.

A little BRIT of us
The general aim of the blog is to offer practical tips and advice to enhance the learning of English as a foreign language. A little BRIT is also a classroom blog and keeps track of the various activities and projects the different classes undertake during school year.

Both English and Italian are used in this blog since I work with beginner to elementary level classes and I believe it could be off-putting and thus demotivating for my students if I confined myself to using English only.

Theme: efl, english language