Project Background Despite rapid advance in today’s technology, many educational institutions in Europe are not experimenting with digital tools in a creative or innovative way. As reported in the OECD survey 2009, almost all EU countries report shortfalls in teaching skills and difficulties in updating them. Shortages relates to the lack of competence to deal with new developments in education especially in preparing learners to make the most of ICT. Therefore, teachers need to acquire skills to implement new educational methods combining existing didactic approaches and digital skills and European schools need to adapt to current students needs and identify new learning models that are engaging to younger generations. In response to this needs, the READ IT project aims at improving teachers’ digital competences to revive their lesson plans, enhance teaching strategies and incorporate new technology to stimulate their students with a new interactive approach towards learning, especially reading. Thus, the project deals with teachers’ needs by training secondary school teachers through an e-course on using ICT for digital storytelling, applying this to any educational sector and learning how to transfer this knowledge to their students. Teachers and students will have the chance to develop multimedia skills through the production of book trailers which will ultimately help students transmit the narrative process in a hands-on, creative manner.This methodology will help teachers to experiment with new teaching approaches in the classroom combing innovation, imagination and authenticity, enhancing their ICT skills which will help lessen the gap between their technology-savvy students and traditional lesson plans. READ IT  project aims and objectives READ IT “Training teachers to make READing fun through digITal storytelling” is a two-year Comenius project co-funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Program. The project started in December 2010 and will finish in November 2012. It is addressed to high schools in the five partner countries involved in the initiative: Italy, Denmark, Romania, Turkey and United Kingdom.  The project’s specific target groups are teachers and students. READ IT project aims at identifying, implementing and testing a didactic methodology that can help teachers acquire new skills through video production using digital storytelling techniques and help raise the interest level and motivate new generations of young readers through the book trailer production. This will enhance teachers’ teaching skills, teaching high school students a novel use of IT technologies and simultaneously encouraging them to read and appreciate literature.In order to get students accustomed to reading again, they need to discover how reading promotes personal growth, emotional development and stimulates imagination. Young readers’ discovery and learning process will be supported by the use of the Digital Storytelling. The main project result is the READ IT pilot course, that will be delivered in two parts: e-learning course addressed to teachers focused on digital storytelling techniques, video and book trailer production. face-to-face seminars where teachers and students will produce book trailers working together by using Digital Storytelling techniques. Teachers will learn and test a new educational approach based on digital technology that can help motivate students to read. Through the different steps and procedures required to produce book trailers, students will learn hands-on this novel and creative use of ICT technologies, while at the same time getting involved in reading. They will also be introduced to all aspects of a digital storytelling from writing, narrative techniques, character development and dialogue, acquiring transferable skills that can be employed to diverse jobs in the labour market. READ IT  main activities  All READ IT partner countries are involved in the primary project activities: research, course content development, experimentation, quality assurance, dissemination and exploitation of project results.The following main activities will be carried out throughout the project:Research with teachers and students aimed at understanding  and comparing currents experience and expectations around ICT, Digital Storytelling and engagement with reading and writing from an EU wide perspective. Course content development aimed at designing and producing the READ IT course curriculum and the e-learning course for high school teachers. The READ IT course curriculum will be based on the research results and will outline the e-learning course contents in terms of aims, topics and learning outcomes. The e-learning course Learning Objects will be produced by the project partners on the base of their specific expertise.Experimentation phase aimed at testing the READ IT didactic methodology in secondary schools of all the five partner countries (Italy, Denmark, Romania, Turkey and UK). In order to effectively test and assess the project’s didactic methodology, at least 8 teachers will be selected to partake in the e-learning training course in each country. Teachers will learn digital storytelling techniques and methods for video and book trailer production. Moreover, several face-to-face seminars will be organized involving teacher trainees and at least 15 students in each country, supported by a book trailer expert in order to produce at least one book trailer per country.Quality assurance aimed specifically at assessing the READ IT course and methodology evaluation in terms of effectiveness and efficacy and impact on target group as follows:1.Teachers involved in the e-course will complete an expectations questionnaire to detect their needs prior to the experimentation and complete a satisfaction questionnaire at the end of the course to assess their learning outcomes. The expectation and satisfaction questionnaires results will be compared to assess the different self-perceptions before and after the e-course.2.  One focus group with students involved in the face-to-face seminars will be arranged in each partner country to assess their experience using digital storytelling to produce book trailer during the experimentation phase. The students will also complete a “book trailer production experience questionnaire” providing comparable data.Dissemination strategy aimed obtaining significant results to increase the project visibility reaching a great number of target group and stakeholders. The READ IT project website will feature an interactive forum for EU teachers and students from different cultural, linguistic and academic backgrounds, allowing them to share and discuss course contents, knowledge, teaching strategies, lesson plans and experiences at EU level. Target group and stakeholders will also receive informative materials (brochure, poster, e-Newsletter). At the end of the READ IT course, the “Compendium on book trailer production for teachers” will be realized to promote the project results, the efficiency of this new methodology and best practices for improving teachers’ ICT skills to make learning more interesting and attractive that will not only develop transversal skills, but provide a new approach to reading for high school students. 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