Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------We presented all our projects on 9th March 2014,
when our school was open to the public. Especially
former students were interested, and I had some
interesting talks with those of them who become
teachers… maybe I was talking to some future
eTwinning members!
Subjects: Art, Citizenship, Cross Curricular, Foreign
Languages, Informatics / ICT;
Languages: English and national languages of
partner countries;
Pupils’ age: 6 – 11;
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eTwinning, ICT, English and Communication
Games
by Laura-Maria Gheorghita-Schipor
After taking part in a few Learning Events, such as
“Finding Partners in eTwinning”, and in the
Comenius in-service training “EU-MAGIC – Effective
Use of Modern technology And Games In
Classrooms”, I took the initiative and registered the
eTwinning project “EU-MAGIC”, with 14 partners
from Portugal, Turkey, Greece, France, Poland and
Romania; it was registered on 23rd November,
2013.
This project was about:
1. communication games both in mother tongue
and foreign languages (such as How many things
can you think of that...?, Blackboard Bingo, What’s
the explanation?, Noughts and Crosses, Unusual
view, Correcting mistakes, Jumbled numbers,
Brainstorm round a concept, Geometrical puzzles
etc.), and
2. educational software and tools (such as
ActivInspire, Power Point Presentations, Glogster,
Prezzi etc).
Tools that were used: Chat, e-mail, other software
(PowerPoint, video, pictures and drawings),
TwinSpace.
Aims: to develop digital skills; to develop
knowledge on software and tools used in
classrooms; to exchange communication games; to
practise English language skills; to develop
vocabulary; to promote tolerance and self-esteem;
to promote team work; to develop knowledge about
European countries and cultures.
Work process:
Searching for more partners: December;
Visibility: announcement in each school about the
project: December;
Each school will have a project team made from
teachers and students: December-January;
Description of each school and participants in the
project - January;
Designing project logo - February;
Each school will choose the communication games,
will practise them with students, will record or take
photos and share on eTwinning; the games
description will be also shared; then the other
schools will practice those games: February March;
The materials used during lessons made with Power
point presentation, ActiveInspire, Prezi etc will be
uploaded on eTwinning; teachers will share ideas
about using ICT tools: April - May;
Evaluation: June;
Dissemination activities: articles: June.
Project results: public TwinSpace; articles on
schools’ websites; articles in schools’ magazines;
articles in educational magazines.
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