Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 12
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------organization of a teacher seminar in my school to
point out the key role played by eTwinning in Key
Action 1 and Key Action 2. It was a very successful
meeting, which motivated other teachers of my
school to be active eTwinners!
I hosted one of the meetings in my school, on the
topic of "eTwinning in students' and teachers'
development". In this meeting I presented my
personal experience, and my students expressed
what eTwinning had meant in their life as 21st
century students and as European citizens. They
were very excited for the chance they had to
demonstrate what competencies and skills they had
acquired thanks to the eTwinning projects they had
joined, three projects awarded with the EQL!
Here you can see the testimonial by one of the
students, Francesca:
https://youtu.be/r2RCRp17USQ.
In my school eTwinning is part of our everyday life.
For example, last December we prepared an
eTwinning Stand to support funding for Fondazione
Telethon, a major Italian charity supporting
research on genetic diseases, during the Open Day
School.
In January 2015 I started working on the new
Erasmus +programme, according to the
development plan of the Regional Board of
Education. I am particularly proud of the
And while planning my institute’s KA1 project and
running the eTwinning project with my second year
students, suddenly it was time to organize the
celebration for eTwinning’s 10th Birthday. The
students were very excited and put forward a lot of
interesting ideas: the creation of the human logo,
a wishing video, a flags parade, a Chinese lanterns
and balloons release and... and... and... We had
only to make them reality!
So I decided to organize the meeting "Let's
celebrate together" on 9th May, with
representatives of the USR and of some schools of
my district, invited to share their experiences and
to prepare a short activity to wish Happy Birthday
to eTwinning. My invitation was accepted by three
high schools and by an elementary one; all the
teachers were together with some student
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