Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------countries, they made friends and communicated far
above the lessons. They used the TwinSpace on
weekends and during their holidays and told me
about their new found friends. Students also came
up with new ideas how to go on with the project.
One time we managed to develop our eTwinning
project into a Comenius project and met face-toface with one school, which was fabulous. From this
Comenius project later a long-term school
partnership and exchange programme arose.
Expanding Horizons
by Maria Vassilopoulou
I also took part in eTwinning conferences and
teacher trainings in various forms, and always came
home with lots of new friends and many, many new
ideas for my classes and projects. As a teacher I
personally think eTwinning is the best programme I
found.
The advantages for me are more than numerous.
To start with, I have met very competent teachers
who share the same dream and try to offer to their
lesson a new dimension. I have learned valuable
things from them either by observing their projects
– food for thought for me – or by participating in
Learning Events organized by highly skilled
eTwinners. So little by little I have become addicted
– hours on end looking for good practices or
experimenting on new teaching approaches or web
2.0 tools in order to offer exciting experiences to
my students.
I joined the eTwinning family two years ago, and
now I feel not only blessed but wiser if I could dare
say so. eTwinning has opened an entirely new world
to me, a teacher with long teaching experience who
yet needed some motivation to try new things in
class. And I have found all that on this online
community.
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