Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 92
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------“Africa, Hello!” on 3 Continents
by Svetla Popova
We decided to invite students from different
countries. We were pleased to see that African
theme is interesting for young people of three
continents:
ASIA - students from LEPL Simon Skhirtladze Public
School, town of Oni - Georgia
and students from Primary school N19, town of
Vanadzor – Armenia;
EUROPE - students from 6ο Δημοτικό Σχολείο Αγίας
Παρασκευής, town of Agia Paraskeyi - Greece
and students from ICS "Vannini-Lazzaretti" - Plesso
Primaria "Luigi Santucci" town of Castel del Piano
(GR) - Italy;
and AFRICA - students from Ecole Primaire PRIMAT,
Reunion island, a french territory.
The common products - real and virtual that we
have created are 14 – real eTwinning calendar
2016; virtual “Wall of friendship”; film “Friends of 3
continents”; interactive picture “Our
intercontinental team”; virtual wall "Interesting
Facts about Africa” with the help of parents; real
competition for a logo of the project; real
competition for an anthem of the project; a
common Speaking English eBook with African
animals, plants and birds - after work in 3
international teams and online voting. Each partner
created handmade reader's native language with
African animals, plants and birds. In this funny way
the children learned the alphabet of the native
language, illustrated with their own drawings. We
wrote a common story "Kelvin" and created a
virtual book with the storyline. The students
collaborated simultaneously in the online platform
http://cosketch.com/ to draw illustrations for the
book. We were divided into 2 international teams.
We created and played wide variety of games - 16
in number. This fun creative activity helped
students to know better Africa, African traditions,
flora and fauna. We met one another "eye to eye" 4
times in online video conferencing and students
practiced their English. We found with the help of
parents and published a lot of educational materials
for Africa - for its nature, music, traditions ... We
handmade African instruments with the help of
parents and played various African songs with
them.
Thus began our adventure in the world of
eTwinning. We set ourselves various goals:
Laying the foundations of literacy
Studying African nature, music and culture
Building a belief that books and computers can live
together in the modern world.
Children from Bulgaria sent a letter with gifts
handmade by themselves. We cannot wait to get
surprises from Africa. And they were not late. Our
friends from Africa were sent gifts - the most
impressive were the drawings active volcano in
Reunion.
For registration of project activities we used 35 ICT
tools - all free, with the exception of one of them.
Bulgaria and Reunion publicly presented together
the project "Africa, hello!" in Bulgaria. It was very
Motto: “Young children who start speaking early
with children from other countries will be able to
live with them in a world of peace and tolerance.”
Bruno Colavin – project partner, a teacher from
Reunion Island, France, Africa
In the summer of 2015 I and the children that I
worked with in kindergarten visited Shumen
Regional Library and borrowed many books to read.
The most interesting were African tales. Thus was
born the idea of 6-7 year olds to offer partnership
for an eTwinning project to children from Africa.
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