Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------time, for a preparatory visit. It is almost impossible
to believe as the affinity that was created online,
among the 9 member countries, you could find in
reality already at the airport. Turkey, Germany,
Italy, England, Belgium, Spain, France, Norway and
Finland all together for the first time, with the initial
embarrassment of not knowing each other and the
fear of not understanding each other. More...
vanished as soon as we shared a single leitmotif:
the desire to grow up together and work together.
After three flights from Catania to Rome, the
second from Rome to Istanbul and the last one
from Istanbul to Izmir, we had to catch a bus to the
hotel, but before our arriving we had a delicious
meal, a big fish. That was the first “shy” approach
to a real friendship under one single flag: the
European one.
links and materials. We met online using Skype and
Facebook in order to inform each other about all the
changing of the plans. Personally I used the
eTwinning materials to show the parents the whole
wide world hidden inside of this “magic box”. The
parents realized that their children are protected on
the portal and the photos of their pupils are not on
the web. We uploaded on the TwinSpace all the
products and the materials related to our topic,
“Forgotten Values”. We collected millions of photos
and news about our exhibitions, about all the
meetings we organized with the parents and the
teachers and just the “special day” of the students.
Every country tried to do something different and
better. We created PowerPoint presentations about
tolerance and when we had the third meeting in
Finland I showed the presentation there and it was
really a success, because every partner worked on
the same topic but with different costumes, habits
and traditions. In a different way. Because of the
age of our students, 7 to 11, we needed their
parents’ help, all the time, to prepare the products
to bring on the mobilities; to prepare special typical
food; to create typical games of the local traditions
.The students were highly motivated, they enjoyed
all the activities and they worked together, in
groups, and they learned how to share experiences,
collaborate, create and above all appreciate their
differences with tolerance and respect.
Now I cannot teach in the same way as before. I
feel a different teacher, I need to check my mail
and I need to feed my motivation every day. Now I
work on several eTwinning projects and I know that
I can create some products for one project but at
the same time I can share the experiences for all
the other projects. I have been attending several
online courses with very specialized ambassadors
from all over Europe and so on… and I feel that
eTwinning helped me, first of all, to become more
innovative and also a better teacher.
After… This story – to be continued… next year.
During
eTwinning helped me to become more innovative
and a better teacher. I discovered a new way to
upload messages, images, and tools. I discovered
wiki, where to upload our information and news. We
used network to find partners and the TwinSpace to
contact, and keep in touch with, our