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. 92