Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 50

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. 50