Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 39
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------tasks into electronic form. In the following IT
classes students were taught about a very popular
Web 2.0 tool Zondle and used it to create e-quizzes
on renewable energy sources.
In this project the partner school was IES Clara
Campoamor Alaquas, a technical school (a high
school) from Spain. Due to the different structure of
education the students were of the similar age (14).
Students led by their teacher David Navarro
explored the topic within the syllabi of vocational
subjects. A thematic quiz via videoconference was
held, and the questions prepared by the teams
were published on the school website turned into a
Zondle quiz, so that everybody could check their
knowledge.
The following example of a successful integration of
English and IT is the project ˝Winter Olympics
2014, Sochi, Russia“ with partners from all over
Europe. Students of grade 7 were involved in this
project. Since the topic of sport is a part of the
Croatian national plan and programme of English
for grade 7, this important event served as a useful
link to the topic. Within classes of English students
expanded their vocabulary of winter sports. As a
part of communicational activities they got the
assignment to make dialogues to the theme of
favourite winter sports and following the Winter
Olympics.
Within classes of IT students were made familiar
with the Web 2.0 tool Go!Animate for creation of
short animated films. As 6th graders students were
presented the basic features of this tool. They were
taught how to create an animated film choosing the
characters and the background and entering their
own text. In this way they practised their spelling:
incorrectly typed words are interpreted by the
equally incorrect pronunciation by the programme,
which is recognized by most students, and they are
able to self-correct their spelling mistakes.
options: entering text in word clouds, adjusting the
character movement, choosing the face expression
and background music. They turned their previously
written dialogues into interesting short animated
films which our project partners liked very much.
Conclusion
The advantages of eTwinning project