Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My first encounter with eTwinning was with the help
of a good colleague of mine from kindergarten in
2011. She had already been very active on this
platform, and she encouraged me to join and find
out the many interesting things that happen here.
She was already back then the first kindergarten
Comenius project coordinator in our town.
Up to this date we are still the only two from our
kindergarten to use this platform quite successfully
I might add. I love the fact that there are always
learning events or webinars, and teacher rooms,
and groups were you can find a lot of new and
interesting things to help you diversify your
teaching.
I would like to encourage more of my colleagues to
try this great platform out, but many of them are
reluctant because they do not master English or
another foreign language that well, or they do not
have ICT skills. I would like them to see that, even
though it is from a long distance, we can still find
friends, colleagues and people that can be there for
us, teach us something new and bring a breath of
fresh air to our teaching.
I would also like to find more support from the
management, because it is not always easy to bring
something so new, which requires resources that
one would not need in traditional teaching, and
having someone willing to help and provide
resources makes a big difference.
I love eTwinning and I hope I can still personally
evolve into something more using it.
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This school year has been quite busy for me in
eTwinning. For the first time I joined some
eTwinning projects and even managed to be the
manager in two of them. It was a big step for me,
and I am very excited. The children at the
kindergarten and their parents are very proud to
take part in them.
An eTwinner as an Acrostic
by Fernanda Cristina Goncalves
Since I started working in eTwinning I have been
doing different kind of partnerships and I have
explored different subjects of projects like projects
about maths, fairy tales, sciences, sports, children’s
rights…. I was coordinator or administrator of some,
and only partner of most of them.
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