Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Romania and to get an eTwinning prize so that I
could meet my dear partners from the projects.
eTwinning, an Online Platform to Find Your
Twins
by Zabel Boyaciyan, Talar Elagoz Bedikoglu and Eva
Buyuksimkesyan
project with partner schools from Greece and Italy.
The aim of this project was to collect and analyse
song lyrics of renowned bands of various genres
and movements (rock, reggae, punk, metal, hip
hop) and study their historical background and the
social and political messages they convey as well as
the impact these messages have on teenagers
today. Further, students were invited to translate
lyrics from their native languages into English and
exchange comments on messages and cultural
traits. The creative part of our project included:
writing lyrics as a collaborative task, making
posters and even compose a song. Some of the
Greek students even performed one of these songs
in their school.
We believe that this was a beautiful journey for our
students through music, in which communication,
critical thinking, language skills, creating, sharing,
raising social awareness on important social issues
were all involved. One of the most important things
of this project was getting to know each other
better. Our students shared the same belief that it
was a great opportunity to broaden their horizons
not only on music genres or the messages hidden
behind the lyrics, but also on cultural differences,
and realizing the fact that they had so many
common things with their peers from other
countries.
Our school has registered with eTwinning since
2009. We the eTwinners in our school have had the
chance to attend conferences and seminars, join
professional development groups and carry
projects. We even found our first ever Comenius
project partners in eTwinning forum.
We believe eTwinning gives teachers a wonderful
opportunity to find partners from everywhere –
mainly Europe but then you can add others to your
project –, start a project and work together. When
you start a project, the site allows you to use the
Learning Lab, where you can find ideas and
resources.
eTwinning not only gives teachers a chance to
collaborate but it also gives them professional
development opportunities.
This year we started our eTwinning club at school
and encouraged teachers to start projects. We
collaborated with schools around Europe and for us
it was a very fruitful year. We would like to share
our projects with you.
“We Are the World” lyrics and ideology
A group of high school students carried out this
“Friendship Zone”
This year some of our 6th grade students took part
in an eTwinning project called “Friendship Zone”
with partner schools from Poland, Sweden, Greece
and Spain. The aim of this project was getting to
know each other through exchanging letters, and
preparing presentations about their
schools/towns/cities. Moreover, students shared
their Christmas traditions and made special
Christmas cards for their pen pals and even sent
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