A short CV
Marital status: Married, father of two children
Current job: Computer Teacher at 5th Gymnasium of Iraklio Attikis (Athens/Greece), 1994-
Previous job: Programmer - Analyst at Singular Company in Athens, 1993-1994.
Taught Computing in Technical Education Institute of Athens (as external partner) and in many Professional Institutes.
Teacher trainer in Computing during the years: 2003-2008.

Studies
1990-1991, Msc in Information Technology, University of Glasgow.
1985-1990, Physics degree, University of Athens

Attended Seminars
  • 2nd level of CIT Education (2014) & Certification exams (2015).
  • "Becoming a Teacher Trainer / Skills of Academic Management", Hastings / England 15-30/8/1998. Part of the European Mobility Programs.
  • "Learning in Future of Technology", Setubal Portugal 12-18/5/1997. Part of the European COMENIUS program.

Educational Activities
  • Invited expert on AI in Education for an Erasmus project, ICS di Codroipo/Udine Italy, 05-09/05/2024.
  • Leader of a school visit to the EU Parliament in Strasbourg, 02/2024.
  • Organized bilateral collaborations through British Council with schools in Taiwan, Nepal, UK etc., (2023-2024).
  • Responsible for Erasmus+ project in the school, 2019-2022. Project title: "Social Media for Educational Purposes".
  • In particular:
    Organized a project meeting for students and teachers in Athens, 06/2022
    Participated with pupils in an official virtual (because of Covid-19) meeting in Bulgaria, 07-10/03/2022
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Międzyrzec Podlaski/Poland, 11/2021
    Participated with pupils in an official virtual (because of Covid-19) meeting in Poland, 26-28/04/2021
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Göksun/Turkey, 12/2019

  • Responsible for Erasmus+ project in the school, 2019-2022. Project title: "Know-how in Terms Of Developing Mobile Applications".
  • In particular:
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Sofia/Bulgaria, 05/2022
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Malkinia Gorna/Poland, 03/2022
    Organized a project meeting for students and teachers in Athens, 12/2021
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Vasto/Italy, 01/2020
    Organized a teachers’ meeting in Athens, 11/2019

  • Responsible for Erasmus+ project in the school, 2017-2019. Project title: "New Methodologies to avoid early school leaving"
  • In particular:
    Participated in a teachers’ meeting in Hvar/Croatia, 06/2019
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Liepaja/Latvia, 05/2019
    Organized a project meeting for students and teachers in Athens, 11/2018
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Budapest/Hungary, 04/2018
    Leader of a group of students and teachers to the study-visit in Tivoli/Italy, 02/2018
    Participated in a teachers’ meeting in La Union/Spain, 11/2017

  • Responsible for e-Twinning projects in school, 2013-2022.
  • School representative to Comenius-Regio program, 2013-2016. Project title “School Bullying”.
  • School representative to a multilateral school link for the European program Comenius, Action 1, 1998 - 2002. Participated in meetings in Finland, Italy, France and Sweden. Organized partners meeting in Greece.
  • Responsible for the "Health Education" project in the school, 1998-1999.
  • Responsible for the "Environmental Education" project in the school, 2002-2003.
  • Participation to the European school collaboration projects "MyEurope" & "Spring Day in Europe" for many years.
  • Teacher mentoring at school (2022-2023).

Prizes & Distinctions
  • Best educational approach in collaborative initiatives category, in BRAVO SCHOOLS competition, 2023. The aim was the creation of a collaborative story about an animal which suffers from a rare disease. It was developed by children 12-13 years old from 7 countries, for an eTwinning project with title LEARNT, during the school year 2022-2023.
  • Best Practice and Initiative Prize by the Secondary Education Administration of Athens for COMENIUS-REGIO “Against Bullying” Project, June 2015.
  • National and European eTwinning quality labels for the projects
  • 2023: LEARNT - Let’s drEAm ouR commoN fuTure
    2022: EXCEED - EXtroverted CollaborativE EDucation
    2021: LIFT - Learning In Future Technology
    2020: OPINION - OPening etwInNIng hOrizoNs
    2019: CHEER - Collaborating scHools pErform bEtteR
    2018: EmOTE - Exploring Our Talents TogEther
    2017: CLARIFy: Collaborative LeARning Is Fun
    2016: Young eTwinners zone
    2015: ELT-U - European language ties us
  • National and European quality labels for the Erasmus project “New methodologies to avoid early school leaving” (2019)

Participation in NSRF(ESPA) European Union programs
Project: Web 2.0 model scenarios in Education.
Project title: Using WEB 2.0 tools in an English language course to improve students' language skills.
Authors: Panagiotis Georgalas, Adamos Anastasiou, Despoina Androutsou.
Project coordinator: University of Patra/Greece "Diofandos" Computer Technology Institute. Project period: 2012-2013.

Papers in magazines with judgment
Conference Presentations (presented in Greek)
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, A. Petrakaki “The Contribution of Collaborative Culture among Teachers to Motivating Experiential Learning of the English Language in Kindergarten”, 15th Conference on Informatics in Education, University of Piraeus 03-05/11/2023.
  • P. Georgalas, V. Anastasiou, "LEARNT ((Let’s drEAm ouR commoN fuTure)", 9th National eTwinning Conference, Syros 20-22/10/2023.
  • P. Georgalas, V. Anastasiou, "EXCEED (EXtroverted CollaborativE EDucation)", 8th National eTwinning Conference 17-19/02/2023.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, G. Stachtiaris “Learning comparative & superlative adjectives in English through comics”, 14th Conference on Informatics in Education, University of Piraeus 04-05/11/2022.
  • P. Georgalas "LIFT - Learning In Future Technology", 7th National eTwinning Conference 19-21/11/2021.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Vasilakou, "OPINION - OPening etwInNIng hOrizoNs", 7th National eTwinning Conference 19-21/11/2021.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, “Augmented introduction to English language learning”, 13th Conference on Informatics in Education, University of Piraeus 09-10/10/2021.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, “Debating with Googls Docs and StoryboardThat”, 12th Conference on Informatics in Education, University of Piraeus 16-18/10/2020.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Vasilakou, "CHEER - Collaborating scHools pErform bEtteR", 6th National eTwinning Conference, Thessaloniki 03-05/07/2020.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, “Improving marketing skills during an English language lesson”, 11th Conference on Informatics in Education, University of Piraeus 11-13/10/2019.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "Collaborative entrepreneurship education in primary school", 10th Informatics in Education Conference, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki 2-4/11/2018.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "Using Augmented Reality to learn the opposite adjectives in English", 5th Educational Conference of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki 27-29/04/2018
  • P. Georgalas, D. Vasilakou, "CLARIFy (Collaborative LeARning Is Fun)", 4th National eTwinning Conference, Patra 24-26/11/2017.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "We collaborate – We compete – We learn English together", 9th Informatics in Education Conference, University of Piraeus, 13-15/10/2017.
  • P. Georgalas, "Dancing with the robot", 11th Conference of Greek IT teachers, Halkida 5-7/05/2017.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "Learning English by experience through cartoons", Conference of Experimental schools, Thessaloniki 2017.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Vasilakou, "Young eTwinners' zone. Teaching each other learning together", 3rd National eTwinning Conference, Patra 25-27/11/2016.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, P. Kaxira, "The first steps in English with Minions", The Education in ICT and Innovation Era, Athens 5-6/11/2016.
  • P. Georgalas, "Learning Greek Online", 21st International Conference "Education/Diversity and Greek as a second or foreign language", Patra 8-10/07/2016.
  • P. Georgalas, "Teaching IF, THEN, ELSE, AND, OR statements through App Inventor 2", 10th Conference of Greek IT teachers, Nafplio 15-17/04/2016.
  • A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "Time for collaborative learning through Web 2.0 and Movie Maker", 4th Educational Conference of Central Macedonia, Thessaloniki 8-10/04/2016.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Vasilakou, "European Language Ties Us - ELTU", 2nd National eTwinning Conference, Patra 13-15/11/2015.
  • A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "Learning the European countries in English, through Web 2.0 tools", 4th Panhellenic conference: "Using CTI in classroom", University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Oct. 30 - Nov. 1, 2015.
  • P. Georgalas, "eTwinning as a communication tool. Sharing good practices to prevent school bullying and Web bullying", Conference organized by the Secondary Education Administration of Athens for the 2013-2015 Comenius Regio project with subject «Preventing school bullying in Greece and Cyprus», Greek Ministry of Education - Athens 8-10 May 2015.
  • A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "Using Google Earth and Web 2.0 tools to learn the 2-digit numbers in English", 2nd Educational Conference of Greek School Counselors, Thessaloniki 2015.
  • A. Anastasiou, K. Kombos, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "Creating an e-Companion to the English language to be used by fifth grade Elementary School pupils", 2nd Conference of Experimental schools, Athens 2014.
  • P. Georgalas, A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou,C. Zachariadou, "e-practice of simple past tense and past participle of English irregular verbs", "Neos Paidagogos" Conference, Athens 2014.
  • A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "SpongeBob and Patrick's adventure in Web 2.0", 6th Pupil Conference for the application of Information Technology in Education, Thessaloniki 2014.
  • A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, "Using Web 2.0 tools to improve pronunciation in English", 3rd Educational Conference, University of Piraeus 2013.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "Combined use of PowerPoint and Web 2.0 tools to improve written skills in English", 1st Conference of Experimental schools, Thessaloniki 2013.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, A. Anastasiou, “e-Dictation. Using Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate the acquisition of Dictation in English”, 9th Conference of EEEP, Athens 2012.
  • D. Androutsou, A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, "What’s the Weather Like? Combining listening techologies for learning the weather in English", 6th Panhellenic Conference for the application of Information Technology in Education, Syros 2011.
  • P. Georgalas, D. Androutsou, A. Anastasiou, "Using Web and Web 2.0 tecnologies for the first steps in English", 2nd Educational Conference by the University of Patra, Patra 2011
  • D. Androutsou, A. Anastasiou, P. Georgalas, "e-Recipes. Using Web 2.0 technologies to teach the imperative in English", 7th Conference of EEEP, Piraeus 2010.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "Using Web 2.0 to teach English in Primary school", ICT in Education, 7th Educational Conference of ETPE, Korinthos 2010.
  • P. Georgalas, A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou ,"An audio visual approach to English grammar with WEB 2.0 tools», 2nd Educational Conference of Imathia by e-Diktyo, Naousa 2010.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "The collaboration of English and Computing teachers in order to create an effective model for teaching English grammar (e-grammar)", 6th Conference of EEEP, Piraeus 2009.
  • A. Anastasiou, D. Androutsou, P. Georgalas, "e-Learning Date & Time in English" 5th Panhellenic Conference for the application of Information Technology in Education, Syros 2009.
  • P. Georgalas, "e-Learning Turkish grammar", Languages for intercultural dialogue, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 2008.
  • P. Georgalas, "A new way for teaching Turkish grammar", Greek Union for Primary Education, 5th Conference of EEEP, Piraeus 2008.