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Ersilia
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Ersilia Salvatore, graduated in Mathematics at the "Federico II" University in Naples, for ten years has taught Managerial Computer science in a Commercial Technical Institute in Caserta and is qualified for the teaching of Mathematics. As soon as she graduated she attended a course of specialisation in Analysis of the Historical Series and obtained a quarterly scholarship from the University of Naples for the documentation and testing of statistical software. Immediately after she moved to Milan where she taught Mathematics for three years. Subsequently she worked for five years at IBM Italy (centres of Milan and Rome) as systems analyst and programmer and then as technical support systems engineer. From 1999 she has been collaborating with the chair of Methodology and Techniques of Social Research at the department of Sciences of the Education of the University of Salerno as professor and researcher, a role which included the participation in the I.R.R.S.A.E. Campania research project on teaching improvement in the three years 1993/1996 and, more recently, in a regional survey on the topic of the difficulty in the teaching profession, focusing in particular - besides on the methodological and technical aspects - on the analysis of the difficulties linked with technological innovation. The relationship of collaboration and consultancy carried out for the I.R.R.S.A.E. Campania has also included the management of documentation and school libraries and the innovation of teaching, through the development of numerous training activities open to the teachers of the region (plans D.E.U.R.E., I.N.N.O., I.R.I.D.E.). Representative of the teachers in the staff organization and liaison officer for teaching affairs, Ersilia has been part of the Advisory Committee for the Ministerial Program for the Development of Teaching Technologies 1997/2000 of the Organizing Body for Studies of Caserta and is currently taking part in the Provincial Group for the Ministerial Plan "SeT - Scientific and Technological Education". Furthermore, she participated in the in-service training of the European teacher on the technologies' teaching in the sphere of the Socrates Plan both as a student and tutor at the S.E.E.L.B.-C.A.S.S. of Belfast, for which she was the referential officer for the organization of partnerships between European schools for cooperative teaching based on I.C.T.. Relater at various conventions ("Internet and young people. How the new technologies are changing school and the juvenile employment", Rome, 2001, Consortium Digital Youth for Forum P.A.; "School, society, culture. Processes in course and future scenarios", Salerno, 2001, University of Salerno; "Seminary of Organization and Planning on independent school organization for Headteachers", Castelvolturno (CE), 1998, Organizing Body for Studies of Caserta); "National Convention of the MATHESIS", Caserta, 1997, Italian Society of Mathematical and Physical Sciences), she has published numerous articles on specialised reviews in the educational field and on some webzines, regarding school, the independent organization of schools and new technologies but also culture, science, society. Moreover, she has published papers on research carried out at university and the experience of tutor within the Ministerial Plan for the improvement of the Scientific and Technological Education. Since 1995 she has carried out an intense activity of formation in the field of I.C.T., both on behalf of other scholastic institutions based on her own projects and the requirements of the user (which included administration staff, students involved in special projects, graduates following I.F.T.S. courses, teaching staff from all school levels in the first learning phase, teaching staff aiming learn the didactic use of specific software or the new instruments for communication within the P.O.N. initiatives co-financed by the E.S.F. or organized by other educational institutions, learners wishing to achieve the E.C.D.L.). From 1996 onwards she has devised and produced, both in her own school and in a network of schools, plans for the distribution of knowledge and competence on Internet and the new technologies for the widening of the training offer, aimed both at students and teachers, creating multimedial presentations and hypertexts, some of which she has published on CD-ROM and web sites which she personally manages. She has moreover developed some school and cultural association web sites. Her multidisciplinary multimedial project on a net of schools "FRENZY OF THE END OF MILLENNIUM " (www.quipo.it/delirii) has obtained the Special Prize awarded by the President of the Republic in the 2000 edition of the Global Junior Challenge.
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