Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 32
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Photography beyond borders
by Diana Chirilă and Pénzesné Győr Enikő
The 13th edition of the Romanian IT Competition
“DUAL PC” took place in April 2015 in Sibiu. The
organizing team decided to take one step further in
the life of this competition: to upgrade it to
international level.
The participants from Croatia, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, Poland, Turkey and Romania competed in the
photography section. The topic of this academic
year 2014-2015 was “Wonders of Mother Nature”,
to which the contestants submitted 140
photographs. A part of them are uploaded onto the
competition site www.dualpc.ro.
This is the winning photograph:
Introductory remarks on Citizenship Competences
embedded in the curriculum
by Carmine Iannicelli
A significant feature of eTwinning is the possibility
of planning a multifaceted syllabus. As a matter of
fact, the objectives of some micro-paths you can
design in an eTwinning project aim at strengthening
skills and competences of different kinds which can
easily be embedded into the curriculum:
- linguistic: decoding of texts and use of the
vocabulary and content studied for communicative
purposes - in the mother tongue and/or in foreign
languages - according to the CEFR levels;
- meta-cognitive: use of various reading
strategies: previewing - questioning to understand
and remember - outlining and summarizingcomparing and contrasting interrelated texts;
problem solving skills applied to the identification
and selection of sources and content data
corresponding to the core concepts; ability to work
cooperatively teaming up with other groups;
strategies for the sharing of materials.
- digital: aware and effective use of search engines
(learning to learn); social network usage to share.
However, at your planning stage, even if the
learning objectives have been quite clearly set, you
may not have any observation grids for an accurate
evaluation.
Enhancing the level of citizenship competences
requires an analytical planning s stage of your
eTwinning project (you cannot just spell out the key
competences you are aiming at) and constant
feedback during the implementation and at the final
stage of your project.
To get a full awareness of the extent to which these
skills have been acquired, a grid for different
purposes may be helpful.
Taking into consideration the success of this event,
the organizing team has decided to introduce one
more section to the international level competition:
the project presentation. This section will be open
to students of classes 9th-12th, students of 15-19
years old for next academic year.
We are looking forward to meeting you the next
academic year!
Actually, it may be very difficult to give a proper
assessment while implementing projects whose
objective is not only getting some knowledge but
also activating several resources aiming at specific
goals: cognitive, practical, social, methodological,
personal.
The Key competences for lifelong learning, as set
by the Recommendation 2006/962/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of
18 December 2006 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legalcontent/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:32006H0962, are a
combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes
appropriate to the context. In particular, they are
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