Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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10 Enjoy it as much as you can
If you like what you are doing, all the work you
have to do will be worth it. If you are motivated,
you will be able to deal with everything. If your
project is successful and you are happy with the
results, you will start another.
Communication with their foreign partners has got
better thanks to the help of the new technologies.
The students have been involved in innovative,
formative activities which have let them understand
how the school can and must implement what they
have learnt in their classrooms with the practices
resulting from the use of technological innovations.
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In the educational and training system the
development of digital skills is no longer science
fiction, but little by little it has become
indispensable for the new generation who is
increasingly looking for cultural innovations not only
for fun.
The skills which have been developed in two of
these projects have had the aim of making the
students use information technology, handle
computer systems, process the information, the
applications and the technologies linked to web 2.0.
What is more, the students have learnt how to
make good use of the net particularly in reference
to the respect of its rules and safety.
At School with eTwinning: Between Teaching
and Technological Innovation
by Domenico Marino and Francesca Zampaglione
The experience of eTwinning has become part of
the school curriculum of the Lt. Col. John Familiari
Secondary School of Melito di Porto Salvo in the
province of Reggio Calabria in southern Italy. The
school has been actively involved in this kind of
experience for several years, it has allowed it to
make profit both in the formative, educational field
and in the national and international achievements.
Working with eTwinning has allowed some teachers
of the school to experience a new way of teaching
their own school subjects; as for the students, it
has helped them to be more motivated and learn
how to use new ways to improve their
understanding.
The English teacher Mrs Zampaglione together with
her students of the Classic Lyceum have
accomplished the project “A Virtual Travel Agency”
about an innovative theme concerning the
Graecanic Area – it is a virtual travel agency to
advertise the historical area of the extreme south of
Italy. Her students have created a tourist tour in
the province of Reggio Calabria from Scilla to Locri
lasting for five days. They shared historical and
artistic places, traditional food, traditions and local
festivals with their Spanish and Czech partners. The
project was implemented with an e-book about the
Albertis’s tragedy, a true ancient story happened in
the suburbs of Melito. The originality of this ebook is that the students wrote down the story with
comics and drawings made by themselves.
Once again, after only two years, the students of
the Thecnical Commercial School of Melito di Porto
Salvo have been on the top step of Europe by
winning the special category reserved to the best
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