Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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stay relaxed and try to listen to your
partners.
Try to work with minimum of three partners
– especially when you have not worked with
them before. It can always happen, that
one partner gets lost or fades away during
the project – illness, other ideas of working,
lost interest… Otherwise your kids can get
very sad, and you have a hell of a time
finding a plan B, when your only partner is
lost somewhere in space.
In case you venture to work bilaterally, you
should know each other very well – many
thanks to Anna in Spain and Turhan in
Turkey.
It may happen that one project does not
work – do not give up, the next one will be
better.
Often potential partners are afraid to start a project
because of the ICT skills that might be demanded
from them. Do not push them out, as we eTwinners
can help each other to overcome this barrier. Often
those teachers have such good ideas and are very
creative! It is always a team fulfilling the project
tasks, a team of pupils, teachers and the whole
school community which different competences in
various items needed – probably somebody will fill
the gap and take over the role as a project ICT
trainer.
As I wrote before - for me, projects are only one
part of the eTwinning experience. It is equally
important to get in touch with other eTwinners,
exchange ideas, learn together – for me it is some
kind of social teacher network. You can discuss with
teachers in Teachers’ Rooms, you can develop your
ICT skills, you have the opportunity to take part in
Learning Events and much more. In the beginning I
was the one who was only reading and learning
from others. Meanwhile I changed the side, I try to
help others to solve their problems and get a good
way in eTwinning and European networking. I
learned so much the last 5 years, you cannot
imagine.
By this I got to know many other teachers from
various school types. And I am sure we can all help
each other and learn from each other. All of us are
winning in case we share our ideas and thoughts. It
is a very inspiring community.
Finally, I want to give thanks for the opportunity to
write an article for this newsletter, although I am in
a formal way not a teacher, which makes things a
little complicated in Germany… I always felt
welcome in the European eTwinning community and
enjoyed seeing my contributions become part of
this great European networking. I hope I can go on
with eTwinning for many years and excite many
others to have a try with European networking.
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An eTwinner Just Starting on the Road
by Ahmet Morsumbul
I have worked in three different schools so far. In
these schools, I have had difficulties and easiness.
At the beginning, I was the only one interested in
eTwinning. Nobody else knew of eTwinning and its
advantages for the school or for the students.
In the second year, I had a lot of experience. I told
my students, colleagues and headteacher about
eTwinning.
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