Like a (school of) fish in water (or ICT-enhanced skills in action) Swimming: from the outside looking in, you can’t understand it; from the inside looking out, you can’t explain it. Evgenia Sendova 1 , Eliza Stefanova 2 , Nikolina Nikolova 3 , Eugenia Kovatcheva 2 , 1 Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bontchev 8, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria jenny@math.bas.bg 2 Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Sofia University, James Bourchier 5, 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria {eliza, epk}@fmi.uni-sofia.bg 3 National High School of Mathematics and Sciences „Acad. L. Chakalov“ 52, Bigla Str., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria nnikolova@npmg.org Abstract. The paper presents pilot experiences related to an educational methodology developed within the Innovative Teacher (I*Teach) European project for building ICT-enhanced skills [1]. The methodology is presented in the context of a workshop for teachers in mathematics and informatics with a special focus on enhancing presentation skills. The authors share their experience in treating the very workshop as a project with specific stages - analyzing the audience’s interests, developing a presentation scenario around a leading metaphor in harmony with the setting, distributing different roles among the presenters, involving the audience in an active reasoning and sharing. Thus the workshop has demonstrated at a meta-level how the collective intelligence of teachers could be harnessed in action. The main message is: such an approach makes teachers feel like co-creators of the I*Teach project ideas and teachers need only a bit of praise or encouragement to recognize themselves as innovative teachers. Keywords: Teacher education, ICT-enhanced skills, active learning methods 1 Introduction A broad range of new skills needed for teachers in the knowledge-based and life-long learning society have been identified in studies within the EC program Education & Training 2010 [2]. An important part of these skills refer to the competences and abilities of teachers and trainers to design, develop, conduct, facilitate and assess teaching and learning processes aimed at acquisition of productive soft skills enhanced by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These skills