Title of Initiative / Project
Dienneti. Didactic and new technologies
Name of Organiser
Marzia Fontana
Start and ending date of the Initiative
1998
Was the initiative carried out in the framework of a funded project?
No
Type of deliverables
Online course, Video, On-line Game, Didactical resource
Thematic area
Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Biology, Science , Other
Language of the deliverable
Bulgarian, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Other EU, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, English, Other non EU
Target Group
Teachers, Students
Description of the initiative
Dienneti is the “in extenso” acronym standing for “Didactic and New Technologies”. The initiative was born in 1998 from an idea by Marzia Fontana. Initially it was hosted into a free web space, later it had an own space and domain. The community and the press like the initiative that immediately became one of the most qualified and eminent benchmark among the online resources centres for the educational system and the didactic in general.
Dienneti.it is an independent website and is totally for free. It provides and refers a number of resources and materials rigorously and accurately selected among many according to strict quality of contents and presentation requirements.
The website is continuously updated and properly organized. It addresses school operators, students, scholars and everyone who would like to use reliable and already selected results. It could be helpful in spite of getting lost among the too much huge and generic results provided by the common online search engines.
The portal users demonstrated to appreciate very much the attention paid by Dienneti to the resources and materials in Italian language. These are considered well oriented to the practical and free use in the framework of several educational disciplines, scholastic management, study and research and educational process in general.
The contents, available in a wide selection of languages, are into the “Aree disciplinari” (“Disciplinary Areas”) section where they are organized by the main educational disciplines.
The section “Percorsi tematici” (“Thematic paths”) provides many paths on the same topics of the previous section and more.
Other learning path and reviews of didactic commercial software are available into the “Archivio” (“Archive”) section. The website wants to provide objective description on these software. It is explicitly specified that the portal has not intent or interest in advertising or encouraging specifically the use of none of these software.
Teachers’ Opinion
Overall rating: very extensive site for both the disciplinary scope and the school level. The users can find several kind of resources, including some excellent link. Among the latters I point out the followings:
- Elementary particle physics: good.
- Physics, waves and music: good.
- Cabinet of Physics: Excellent.
- Physics on Youtube: excellent.
The language courses are initially free of charge, but in order to continue, after the registration it is necessary to pay.
Students’ Opinion
The most remarkable think of this website is the existence of thematic paths that give the possibility to deepen scolastic topics or simply to distract reading some tips.
Very useful the opportunity to perfect the thematic choice.
The variety of the contents allow a large access of different users.
Comments on this Relevant initiatives
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Date: 2015.03.12
Posted by Darina Dolešová (Slovakia)
• Why is the project (selected initiative) important?
• Will an initiative/project provide outputs that can help to overcome lack of students´ motivation to study science?
• Do you plan to test given outputs (with your students)?
Teacher:
This is a very big educational portal, in which each student can find "its piece of cake" – what is he/she interested in. For example from chemistry Ptable - Dynamic periodic system, where everyone has the opportunity to learn about the elements a lot of information, all in one place. Some of the materials are immediately translated into Slovak, which is great. I will certainly look at this website with my students and I think they will be very interested.
• What do you think are the possibilities of the selected project to be successful in increasing students' interest in studying science subjects?
Student - Simona Guzmická
This is a great site and project. Everyone can find there something that interests him/her. While searching for particular issue, one can learn lots of new information. From their offer, I was impressed for example, by geography, great stuff!