Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter no. 5 - July 2015 | Page 40
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2015 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Going beyond classroom walls
by Andrea Ullrich
This year I had my Year 7 group in two really good
and challenging eTwinning projects: “care2feed”,
related to the topic of EXPO 2015, and “Don’t bully,
act kindly, live happily”. Both projects got
recognition outside our eTwinning community.
When Niculina Chiper, Romania introduced
“Together in EXPO”, a global project for schools
organized by the Italian ministry of education in
cooperation with EXPO Milano, to us and six of our
“care2feed” teams decided to join we had no clue
what was waiting for us – a school year full of
creative challenges with weekly missions on
whatever you can think of related to the topic “Feed
the planet, energy for life”. To get an impression of
what we were doing in addition to the activities we
had originally planned for the “care2feed” project,
check the German collection
http://padlet.com/MrsU/EXPO2015.
This is the place to thank eTwinning Europe and
European Schoolnet for all the opportunities of
professional development they offer – without all
the courses I have taken many of these products
wouldn’t have been possible; they would even have
been far beyond my imagination. I think my
presentation with Betina Astride, Portugal at the
Creative Classroom Group Unconference showed
well how eTwinning teachers can benefit from
learning together.
Let us come back to the project; we made sure to
spread the word about eTwinning:
- the Dutch, Maltese and German teams used our
project title in their names: portwijk_care2feed,
care2feedMalta, care2feedGymGeorg;
- in our profiles all of us referred to the eTwinning
project;
- in some of our products for missions we referred
to eTwinning, too.
All six teams were constantly among top 20 of 2750
participating teams, Paulien du Fossé with her
Dutch team unbeatable number 1, which showed
the strength and commitment of our eTwinning
group.
But that was not all. When the winners of an
additional competition, where you had to team up
with another participant and create a collaborative
product, were announced three of the nine winning
entries were with care2feed teams. We had four
teams among the winners as one of the products
was 100% care2feed (the German and Polish
teams).
We were so proud and happy that we used social
networks to let the world know about the power of
our eTwinning group. In September 2015 we will
visit EXPO to show our project
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/62291945443033
0881 together with our Polish team mates in the
Italian pavilion. The German pavilion has also
contacted us to arrange a meeting.
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