Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 16
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------recipes, questionnaires for students and parents
regarding a healthy lifestyle and, of course, benefits
of eating fruits and vegetables.
The project develops students’ critical thinking,
communication and debate skills, as students are
required to speak about their habits on health,
compare them with their classmates’ and also their
partners’ from other European countries. Through
these comparisons students learn about their
partners’ perceptions, understand them and start
feeling close to them, breaking barriers and
stereotypes. Through discussions and friendship,
students develop a positive stance towards native
and foreign language learning, as well as ICT.
Project "Tweaster" - Carmen Nicolaita, National
College "Ionita Asan", Caracal
collaborative online project. By sharing our
activities on Facebook and also by inviting parents
to activities, I was able to get a very positive
feedback from them. For me it was an opportunity
to rediscover the eTwinning portal, a new improved
one, as it is eTwinning plus and part of Erasmus+
action now. My school benefit was the involvement
in European projects, pointing out the European
dimension.
The most successful result in my opinion was the
great involvement of my students, they became
more responsible trying to meet the project's tasks
and in the end they developed their self-esteem
and self-awareness.
Instead of conclusions: working in eTwinning
projects, our students developed their linguistic and
ICT skills but more importantly they learnt the
importance of friendship and positive thinking in
life. They broke stereotypes and discovered
commonalities by studying the work of their
partners and realized that, although we have
different languages, we share the same values,
dreams and emotions.
Long live eTwinning at its 10th anniversary!
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The eTwinning world for me
by Costantino Soudaz
Here is what I have received from the eTwinning
World in 10 years.
During this short project we twinned about Easter
in different countries in Europe. We made pictures,
video and drawings to show each other which habits
we have during the Easter period in our country.
We shared original ideas to show our results to the
others. The project was open for everyone: new
and experienced eTwinners. We kept it very simple
and easy, to make it possible for everyone to take
the first eTwinning steps. With the students we
wanted to share cultural knowledge in Europe. We
also wanted to work on the ICT and media skills of
the students.
As my students are young (8-9 years old) and they
are beginners at English language, I tried to engage
them using their talents: drawing, singing, taking
photos, filming, and their ICT and internet skills,
many of them being already little experts, using
cameras, tablets and smartphones on a daily basis.
The project has had a big impact upon my students
(and their parents), being their first international
I have chosen 10 pictures and I will comment on
them one by one.
I live in a mountain area and we experiment
experience in digital divide: often we do not have in
our school a good ADSL and communication is a
little bit more complicated. So often we cannot work
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