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To kick the project off Martina had to come to school to show the class how to use the software.They already knew other free software tools such as Cmap, to build conceptual maps, iMovieand Movie Maker for editing videos, and GarageBand and Audacity for editing audio fi les.They worked together in teams of 6-7 students and used the interactive white board to showtheir work to their schoolmates and others teachers. The renewable energy project was acomponent of their end of year school exam.“The pupils were clearly very motivated by both the energy effi ciency theme and the softwareapplications,” recalls Martina. “We worked with them on this in 2010 and they did the exam in2011. For U4energy, we contacted them via Facebook and asked them to revisit the project in2012 developing it further and creating an e-book, YouTube movies and a podcast. They allcame back onto the project in 2012 even though they had switched schools. ”Renewable energy is covered in the Italian curriculum for physical science so this projectslotted into Cinzia’s class work fairly easily. By leveraging ICT within the project she wasable to trigger her pupils’ imagination about energy and expand their technology skills. TheSketchUp application also lent itself to the teaching of geometry.“The real challenge wasn’t the energy theme or the technology,” says Cinzia, “it was in makingthe pupils the central players and facilitating their enjoyment of the subject. They demonstratedtheir enthusiasm by coming back to work together in 2012”.29