Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------After planning, communication is also important.
Try to keep in touch with your partners during the
process so you can ask about unclear points and
give them the opportunity to lead you in the best
way. Photograph, video or document all your
studies. It will be very nice if you can display your
work and studies on a notice board. Furthermore,
you can present them during eTwinning workshops
to share your experiences with other eTwinners.
Remember to apply for a Quality Label as well, to
crown your success when you finish your project
successfully.
eTwinning is a journey by which you can discover
and learn new things even every day at each
station. So keep on discovering and learning via
eTwinning, and share your experiences with the
others in order to extend this passion. Good luck
with your eTwinning journey! I hope to meet you at
some station. Bye for now!
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eTwinning – The Challenge to Move Forward
by Valeria Iordache
I can hardly believe that it has already been five
years since I registered on the eTwinning site.
Everything started with great curiosity, when I read
in the form necessary to complete in order to apply
for “Merit Recognition” about eTwinning projects. I
did not know what these projects were, and I had
not heard anybody speaking about them. I turned
on the computer and I looked for information about
the eTwinning platform. I created my account in
2009, and then I waited to be contacted by
someone, I waited for something to happen, but it
did not. For a year I studied different pages on this
platform, different projects, and I would have
wanted to be a partner in one of them. It was my
teenager’s dream to communicate to people my age
from different European countries. I was in high
school, right after the Revolution in 1989, when our
form teacher asked us to write some information
about us on some pieces of paper and told us that
we were about to get some letters from other
countries. For me, this was an extraordinary
opportunity to know other “worlds”. I was really
enthusiastic to get news from teenagers from
France, England and to talk to them about our
hobbies. But everything ended as quickly as it
started. I graduated high school and I got a job as
a teacher at a sch ool near Brasov. But my hobby to
communicate with people from other countries has
not faded.
The eTwinning platform appeared in my life as a
fulfillment of a teenager’s dream. I have learnt by
discovery how to contact European teachers, how
to make projects and to take part in different
activities organized on the platform. My first
success was in 2010, when I won a prize: to take
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