Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 50
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Betina: My students liked it a lot because they had
to add pages to the Google slides and they used
Google translator too. And since then, we started to
share our postcards on social media under the
hashtag #hietwinbro. We shared them on Twitter,
Facebook, school web pages and class blogs.
Andrea: In October I had the chance to do three
days of job shadowing with our Finnish partner
Tiina Torvinen. What a nice experience! We
prepared some activities together, and did with her
students what I hadn’t been able to do with mine,
as the equipment at my school was not sufficient
enough. So, her 3rd grade pupils created teddy
bear comics with empty speech bubbles, which had
to be filled by the other teams. Everyone was
inspired and more and more collaborative activities
were added to the postcard exchange. A week after
my returning home I sent Tiina a message, asking
if she could arrange an advent calendar. She replied
that she had just wanted to ask me the same -
that’s the spirit of a good project. And knowing you
can count on your partners makes it an excellent
one. As expected, Betina, you gave the advent
calendar a special touch…
Betina: Did I? Why do you say that? I remember I
felt quite… how can I say? Jumbled? Because I
thought “OMG! How am I going to fill six doors with
my class in a creative and collaborative way?” So I
began talking to my kids and we made a list of
possible things to do: poems, songs, Christmas
cards… ok ok these are good things but… we need
something bigger, something more exciting, with
interaction. So, we had the idea of challenges!
Paper fortune teller, Mannequin...
Andrea: I still remember when we opened the first
window and saw the Portuguese challenge; my
team wanted to go for a Mannequin challenge right
away, and used the bus ride back from an
excursion to a chocolate factory to make their
video. By the way, at the factory almost every
student made a chocolate teddy bear. They were so
much into the project. Also unforgettable - the
Finnish Mannequin challenge, so much fun, so much
snow. Talking about snow, do you remember the
snowman challenge? My students felt sorry for their
Portuguese friends who didn’t have any, and made
snow bears for them. Finally we found a nice
template for the creation of virtual snowmen, which
was immediately sent as a postcard.
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