GOLD: a ten-year database of school best practices Agenzia Nazionale per lo Sviluppo dell’Autonomia Scolastica (former INDIRE) Antonella Turchi Silvia Panzavolta

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, VIDEO repository

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, News on national/local training and dissemination initiatives

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 THE GOLD Database on educational best practices, Online material on educational documentation and on project participation/tools etc.

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Type of users Teachers of every educational level and school type (new teachers and in-service teachers) Head-teachers Teachers trainers/e-tutors Students School personnel Parents Other professionals working with the school Educational sciences researchers

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Type of information Project descriptions (from planning to outcomes) Students’ material Evaluation material Communities Social networks Educational material (LOs, exercises, images, ICT tools an tutorials)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Type of information: some examples Educational game Chemistry test Webquest Lesson plan Learning unit Teaching training material Tutorial material for english teaching on Moodle Best practice description on a web 2.0 platform

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Flow of information/knowledge construction and architecture Bottom-up: the information/knowledge is selected, collected and described by users (mainly teachers), then it is judged by experts (generally university teachers or regional research centers researchers) and afterwards it is offered to users Full-text database

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Information description The information is described through metadata The metadata schema is a subset of LOM The repository has a subject indexing through the LRE thesaurus

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 LRE descriptors The LRE thesaurus has been developed by INDIRE, initially in 5 languages. Now the thesaurus has 19 language versions. It is used in the largest EU repository (LRE portal) and by national repositories too (i.e. Ireland, Austria, Israel, Italy) THE GOLD Database on educational best practices,

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Types of search Google-type: free search on semantically relevant fields Advanced search Search through authority files (school type, keywords, student age, region)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Types of search Google search Search through keyword Advanced search on LOs Advanced search on best practices

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 DRM policy Indire is applying Creative Commons licenses to the GOLD database documentation and states that teachers who candidate their practices guarantee for what there are uploading

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Partnership Regional research agencies Universities and Academic consortia Local school authorities Public training centers

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Levels of the database National level 18 Regional levels Minority language level (at present, only 3 minority languages: Frulan, Slovenian and German) Minority language level Regional level National level

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Training Training/information on educational documentation is provided: – in each region (18 in Italy +2) on a blended or face2face mode – on an ANSAS dedicated elearning platform – during national/interregional conferences

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Content of training Multimedia language for education documentation Elements of documentation Policy of multimedia content management Use of other teachers practices Use of the database Use of project tools (i.e. hypertext generator, video repository)

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 National projects using the GOLD model Recently, the Ministry of education had adopted the GOLD model for many national projects such as the national project on Citizenship, on Music Education and within the School 2.0 and Interactive Whiteboard projects, thus widening the reach of the GOLD model

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Call for funds One every year, in June (when school year has finished) Contribution to schools: € (1.000 € for the documentation work already done; € for transforming the documentation into a multimedia product or – in case the documentation is already multimedia – for training other teachers

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Example of school documentation #1: social community with web TV

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Example of school documentation #2: docu-fiction

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Example of school documentation #3: hypermedia

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Shift in the narratives of teachers’ documentation Teachers are being trained to use multimedia in documentation. This shift has several advantages: To allow teachers to use multimedia with a specific objective To transfer the knowledge acquired in multimedia documentation to everyday classes To “force” team documentation, thus having a pool of documenting teachers and not a lonely documenting teachers To allow students’ participation in the process of documenting their school experience (shared metacognition –> formative process) To explore the new opportunities of the web

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Facts and figures About 6,000 practices described + 7,000 LOs 786 best practices selected Around 500 hits/day on the GOLD national site Single statistics on each practice Project started in 1999 Mentioned in a Florence University – Faculty of social sciences - study as one of the 4 best projects in the public administration sector

Antonella Turchi, Silvia Panzavolta - ANSAS - Italy 5th Strategic Seminar, EdReNe project, Copenhagen, October, 6-7 Thank you for your attention! Antonella Turchi Silvia Panzavolta