The document summarizes Giuseppina Fazzio's experience participating in an Erasmus Plus professional development course in Alcala de Henares, Spain from April 9-16, 2016. The course focused on innovative skills in ICT through collaborative and project-based teaching. Participants met outside the Alcala Museum and bonded over drinks at a local pub. The lessons were held daily from 4-8pm at a hotel, where the teacher Sonia introduced apps and software for collaborative work. As they were in Cervantes' hometown, the participants called themselves "Dulcineas" and worked on a crosscurricular friendship project. Evenings were spent in local restaurants, and participants shared experiences of teaching through projects.

1. ALCALA’ DE HENARES
EXPERIENCE
Course: Innovative skills in ICT through collaborative and project-
based teaching and learning
9-16 April 2016
ERASMUS PLUS PROJECT

2. • FIRST MEETING
OUTSIDE ALCALA’
First meeting outside Alcala’ Museum New friends
Mrs Sonia, the course teacher, welcomes
the group of participants in front of
Alcalà Museum.
From left to right: Tina from Latvia, Lina
and her daughter from Lithuania,
Giuseppina from Sicily, Peggy from Greece.

3. Breaking ice in a a typical Spanish pub, drinking beer
and eating tapas and pinchos.

4. Let’s start. The lessons are held inside the best hotel in Alcalà, El
Bedel, in the townheart. This is the course timetable. Lessons
from 16:00 p.m. to 20:00 p.m.

5. The course is led by teacher Sonia, tutor of my group. Mrs
Sonia teaches English in Alcalà.

6. Teacher Sonia explains how to use ICT in our teaching
She showed us lots of apps and softwares such as Edmodo, Socrative, Kahoot,
underlying the necessity for contemporary teachers to use technologies in teaching.
She also recommended the importance of collaborative work.

7. Collaborative Dulcineas at work
As we are in Alcala de Henares, Cervantes’ hometown, we have decided to be called
Dulcineas. We are working on a webquest on a crosscurricular project on
friendship: students after a wbquest prepare a book in which they tel about
friendship through various literary genres. (In the background Dr. Fernando
Garcia, the course manager)

8. Evenings in Alcalà
Waiting outside a restaurant: From left to
right: Giuseppina from Sicily, Elaine from
Ireland, Meni, Eleni and Vassiliki from
Greece.
Inside a restaurant for pinchos. From left
to right: Elaine, Giuseppina and Janina
from Poland.

9. Exchanging experiences of teaching through projects
The teacher Vassiliki Papaioannou tells of
her project experience with Erasmus Plus
The teacher Janina Boreta speaks about
her teaching experience with adolescents.

10. Storks in Alcalà
This is the last picture to show…For me Alcalà experience has been a new
start . Thanks Erasmus +.
Giuseppina Fazzio