Eugenia Casariego Artola - course coordinator
Eugenia is working at European Schoolnet, contributing to the educational aspects of EU Code Week: supporting the development of training materials for schools, assisting in the website of resources, and helping in the development of the Learning Bits. You can follow her and get in touch here: https://twitter.com/eugenia_eun
Tommaso Dalla Vecchia - course coordinator
At European Schoolnet since 2012, he has been working in lots of different projects and initiatives. He has been more and more engaged in awareness raising, education and training projects, especially in the area of digital skills and coding. Currently he proudly supports the scale-up of EU Code Week. You can follow him and get in touch here: https://twitter.com/tommaso_eun
Naír Carrera - course coordinator
Naír Carrera has been working as an educational expert and external consultant in European projects for the last several years, focusing on digital and innovative education, e-Learning, and teachers´ training. She joined European Schoolnet in 2015, where she works as Education and Engagement Manager of the European Commission´s initiative EU Code Week, where she also contributes to the project strategic planning, monitoring, content creation and community engagement.
Alexandra Almpanidou - course moderator
Alexandra is working at the European Schoolnet, is part of the Future Classroom Lab Team and supports the creation of material for EduRegio MOOC and the moderation of Code Week course. You can follow her and get in touch here: https://twitter.com/AAlmpanidou
Henrik KrantzHi, my name is Henrik Krantz and I work for the Gothenburg Region in Sweden. I am an art and media teacher, with a big focus on digitalization and have been working with different projects regarding this in school. Now I work as a project manager and am involved in different projects regarding education and digitalization. A big focus for me is the democratic viewpoint, and therefore is digital literacy something I love to work with. Another big interest and expertise of mine is game based learning and gamification in education, and I love to find creative ways of letting students experience this.
Vera LopesVera Lopes has a background in the field of education, and expertise in Special Education, working mainly with the educational community in Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra, Portugal. With experience as a trainer in the areas of training management, teaching skills, evaluation skills, she was also the educational coordinator on awarded projects targeted for audiences with special educational needs (ex: dementia, cerebral palsy) in museums. She is currently a member of the “EDURegio: Digital Regions for Education” Eramus + project. You can follow her and get in touch here: Facebook vera.lopes.399
Luís Gonçalves Teacher of Citizenship, Portuguese, French and Religion at Miranda do Corvo (centre of Portugal), with a master’s degree in School’s Administration and Training Management from the University of Coimbra. He holds a degree in Religious Sciences from the Portuguese Catholic University of Porto, where he teaches “Didactics of Religion in Primary Education”. He is an eTwinner since 2005 and eTwinning Ambassador since 2019. He is also a teachers’ trainer and Projects’ Evaluator. He was a member of the working group responsible for drafting the National Strategy for Citizenship Education, nominated by the Portuguese Government.
Miguela FernandesMiguela Fernandes is Computer Science teacher for more than two decades, in Agrupamento de Escolas da Batalha, from Portugal, with a master’s degree in Educational Sciences, specialization in Educational Technology. She is also a teacher trainer in pedagogical use ICT, Educational Consultant, online courses organizer and content creator, an eTwnning ambassador since 2007, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert, Microsoft Certified Educator and a CCNA 1/2 and IT Essential Cisco instructor.
Course moderators in Catalunya, Spain
Eulàlia Canet NebotI am Eulàlia Canet. I’m a Primary School Teacher and the last three years I’ve been also working as Assistant Principal at my school. I've been teaching coding, programming and computational thinking at primary schools for the last six years. Also, for the last two years I've been training other teachers in the pedagogy of coding at most of the primary public schools in my area. Three years ago, I designed my school coding, programming and computational thinking plan, which made our school to be awarded as "Most digital innovative school" at the Mobile World Congress Barcelona in 2018. I'm a very active member of the Catalan Scratch Community, participating in every ScratchEd Meetup planned and helping other Scratchers by translating all the Scratch coding cards into catalan.
Elena Vercher Ribis Hi! I am Elena Vercher, a teacher based in Catalonia since 2009. I am currently coordinating the STEAM project and teaching English and robotics at Sant Jordi Primary School in Spain. I am a Google Innovator and Trainer and have also been teaching in the Bachelor's Degree of Education at the Rovira and Virgili University for two years and have given teacher training talks and courses about STEAM and collaborative learning in Barcelona, Madrid, London and Valencia amongst others. I have been recently awarded with one of the "Teaching Professional Stays" from the Ministry of Education in a Primary School in England, the follow-up of the 2018 edition of the John McDowell APAC award and the 2019 TESOL-SPAIN’s first-time speaker grant. You can follow her and get in touch here: Twitter account @elenavercher
Course moderators in Trento, Italy
Sonia SartoriHi, I’m Sonia from Trento (Italy). I’m a German teacher in a very small lower secondary school in the North of Italy. Our school is in the Alps, 1200 mt above sea level on a beautiful highland, which is very peculiar in our region because there is here a protected linguistic minority, who speaks an old Germanic dialect. I’m also the teacher responsible in my school for the digital empowerment and innovation and European projects. We are experienced in Erasmus + Projects as we have always been really interested in offering our students the best chances to collaborate with international schools. We are interested in improving the digital skills of all our pupils, too, and we are open to any kind of cooperation and collaboration with other schools on new technologies to build an even larger international educational community.
Alessandra MenapaceMy name is Alessandra, I am Italian. Since 2010 I work as a Math and Science teacher in a Lower Secondary School in the north of Italy. I graduated in Mathematics at Trento University in 1998. I was employed in the field of software development for the following 10 years, then I decided to move to the Education field. I am a digital lead in my school, my task is to improve the skills of students and colleagues, by means of ICT training sessions and the technical support in creating educational units that use innovative approaches. I think that the best and fastest way to learn is to compare and share experiences with other people. New technologies simplify a collaborative and open approach for lifelong learning.
Massimo BosettiHi, I’m Massimo, I’m physics teacher and I’m tech enthusiastic. I teach since 2010 math and physics in small village near Trento above the Brenta’s dolomites. I use coding and robotics in my usual physics teaching.
Disclaimer & Copyright
This course has been created by Naír Carrera and Tommaso Dalla Vecchia with the help and support of the partners of the EDURegio Digital Regions for Education project: Generalitat de Cataluña, Castilla y León, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Comunidade Intermunicipal da Região de Coimbra (CIMRC) and Göteborgsregionens kommunalförbund. The EDURegio project is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
The creation and running of this course have been supported by the European Commission, but it is sole responsibility of the organizers. The European Commission (EC) is not responsible for any use that might be made of the information contained.
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