Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fresh and Motivating – eTwinning
by Miljenko Hajdarovic
someone new and discover new interesting things.
What to say about eTwinning? I am really a
beginner/newbie on this platform but as far as I can
see it is a great platform for cooperation.
I am teaching a lot of high school subjects in high
school. Each year I am preparing my curriculum for
history, sociology, politics and civics. And each
summer I am “wasting” a lot of my free time
preparing something interesting for the next school
year. Each year I am thinking how to prepare
projects that involve international cooperation
without begging for money for travel. Last year I
was exploring some web sites and by accident I
discovered something called eTwinning. I followed
some people that were talking about it on
Facebook, and especially the publications by Lidija
Kralj.
During the last 12 months I registered on
eTwinning portal, explored the content, participated
in two webinars and one learning event. To gather
more experience I have started a small (or basic)
eTwinning project with just one partner from
Turkey. “Meeting point in history: Szigetvár” was a
history project connecting two schools, two
teachers and several students. The idea was to
explore one meeting point in history when in year
1566 two great historical figures met at the same
place. The place was Szigetvar in Hungary, where
Croatian nobleman Nikola Subic Zrinski defended
the city against Suleiman the Magnificent.
I think that with this concept “Meeting point in
history” each year I could do at least two miniprojects lasting two or three months. The ideas
could be Napoleon (Napoleonic wars and
involvement of Croatia and its soldiers in that
time), White Croatia (part of Poland where Croats
lived before migrating to present place), Under the
Star (comparison between states that once were
“under red star” and now one of the EU stars –
history, culture, etc.). Students could benefit with
learning project skills, language, history, culture,
music, etc. If we have enough imagination and will
to work, eTwinnning will be a fantastic place.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
by Ionela Camelia Lazea
Why am I using eTwinning? History is a great
subject to implement international cooperation.
Students love to do something that is not a part of
usual school process. They love to get to know
I am a kindergarten teacher in Bistrita, northern
Romania. My children are 5 and 6 years old, the big
group, as in Romanian teaching system for
kindergarten we have small, middle and big group.
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