Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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Finding something suitable for 3rd or 4th graders
was not hard, but finding a project that could
include 5th and 6th graders as well was…. so, we
joined “Let’s Go Blogging”, where each grade could
work on something suitable, using different tools,
from Glogster, to Voki, Plotagon, Moviemaker and
so on.
eTwinning was now making its way among
Romanian teachers, primary school teachers and all
the while reintegrating our ‘No-Way’ among their
peers. Teaching to preschool for the first time, I
figured eTwinning could come in handy there as
well, and “My Alien Friend” (http://newtwinspace.etwinning.net/web/p99291) proved it.
Students created avatars of themselves as aliens,
imagined their planet, built robots and rockets,
introduced themselves, created alphabets,
navigating with Google Street view in partner cities.
And unexpectedly one of the noisiest preschool
classes calmed down and watched, listened, talked
and had fun.
One thing I have noticed over and over again. The
first students who embrace any eTwinning project
are almost always the trouble makers. Maybe that
should get their parents thinking, their other