["Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter urban lighting which is related to the SDGs, malware, ethical hacking and strong the Goal 11 Sustainable cities and passwords. Students checked their passwords communities. We participated in the STEM using the HowSecureIsMyPassword tool and Discovery Campaign 2021 with a blog post they created new passwords using a password \u201eTechnology4Good \u2013 micro:bit and SDGs\u201c. generator. We created the LearningApps game \u201eMalware\u201c. Students worked with peers from Our partners also shared their work via partner schools on the Padlet \u201eBeat the TwinSpace and in that way we exchanged Hacker\u201c on four scenarios of possible ideas. This was a valuable experience for us dangerous situations on the Internet. This and we got new ideas for activities in the next collaborative activity was very interesting to school year. my students and they expected the answers from other schools with great interest. Micro:bit and Morse Code On 8th March an online meeting was held with In May we participated in the eTwinning Day students from two Greek schools. An celebration. My student created a challenge for eTwinning Live Event \u201eMicro circuits for Mega partners which consist of a message with a solutions - let's learn and play together!\u201c was Morse code created with the micro:bit. Peers created to make the activities visible to the from Greece solved the challenge and decoded eTwinning community. During this meeting the message \u201eHappy eTwinning Day\u201c. students played two Kahoot quizzes, \\\"Teens' Opinions About YouTube\\\" and \u201eWomen's Day Other activities 2021\u201c. Except of the micro:bit activities, schools A special part of this project were collaborative collaborated on many other activities which activities implemented from March until May, enriched our project. At the beginning of the regarding the Sustainable Development Goals project we collaborated on preparing the initial and Technology4Good. Those activities survey for students and teachers. During included micro:bit activities, but also students December, as a part of the Hour of Code participation in TwinSpace forum discussions students participated in the activity \u201eAI for and creating a Technology4Good pledges. Oceans\u201c. During January and February Students were introduced to the UN\u2019s Global students researched about the Internet of Goals by watching the selection of films on Things and Artificial Intelligence and we The Global Goals, available on collaborated on the Safer Internet Day events. http:\/\/www.globalgoals.org\/films. We eSafety is an important part of eTwinning proceeded with a discussion \u201eWhat are the projects. We talked about computer security, biggest problems faced by people in our community, country and worldwide?\u201c and students wrote their ideas on the AnswerGarden. On the extracurricullar activity called eTwinners, students participated in the TwinSpace forum, in the Students\u2019 Corner: Technology4Good Activities. Students chose the topic of their interest, exchanged ideas and reported all our activities to peers from other countries. Forum discussion was divided into four topics related to SDGs and my students choosed two of them, Technology4Good: Sustainable cities and communities and Technology4Good: Nature is the Key. There was also a fifth topic proposed","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter by our eTwinning partners from Greece, Evaluation results are publicly available on the creating our Technology4Good pledge. The TwinSpace and students and teachers students added their pledge and in doing so commented them on the forum. acted as responsible citizens aware of the technology. Finally, I would conclude that it was a great project, with hardworking, innovative and As one of the final projects results we reliable partners. Very nice experience, a lot of prepared a Canva document with exchanged ideas and results. Technology4Good pledges created using student's entries on forum \\\"Create our More about the project can be viewed on Technology4Good pledge\\\", a collection of public part of the TwinSpac: students pledges saved as an animated gif. https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/121507\/home One more final product is a presentation \u201eMicro:bit and SDGs\u201c with an overview of Iva Naran\u0111a has been an IT teacher at 2nd Primary activities implemented from March to May. In School \u010cakove,Croatia since 2003. She has graduated June, at the end of the project we prepared a Grammar School \u010cakovec, Faculty of Organization and final Canva document to present our project in Informatics and Faculty of Teacher Education, University a concise way. of Zagreb.She has been active in eTwinning since 2012. Conclusion By working on this project we tried to develop the students digital capabilities but also basic skills of programming, computational thinking, critical thinking, the problem solving and creativity. Also, we tried to develop our students social and emotional intelligence, what contributes to effective performance at work and greater satisfaction in life. We used the free coding tool micro:bit classroom to easily manage students\u2019 work when programming the BBC micro:bit. This was very helpful, especially during the remote teaching. eTwinning projects can help to make STEM education even more interesting for students and the posibility to collaborate with peers from other countries increase the students motivation. It is challenging for students to compare their ideas and results with the peers from other countries. One more value of this activities is that students make connections between the classroom and the world around them and solve real-life problems. All activities were well accepted by students, they had a lot of fun and discovered new possibilities how technology can help in solving the real life problems.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter M. A. T. H. S. Project connection of mathematics with other or What Makes branches to our students. With the help of Mathematics Special visually impaired students and their teachers, by \u00d6zlem Eren, Banu we have effectively explained the difficulties of G\u00fcven and Adriana mathematics for visually impaired children. We Mari\u0219 had a perfect example of this situation, Fulya Akkaya from Meram Anadolu Lisesi, who has M.A.T.H.S. is an acronym for Mathematics, first degree in university exam, how she Art, Technology, History and Science. understands Math and how can she solve the questions without seeing them is being guide M.A.T.H.S. eTwinning project was about the for other visually impaired students. Our liaison between all these sciences, with an collaborative work on this page can be emphasis on visually impaired students. 12 accessed here. schools from Croatia, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine joined the idea of Also, the connection of mathematics with unveiling the importance and the other branches was studied by our students interconnection between mathematics and within Technology&Math, Science&Math, other subjects. The project page can be History&Math and Art&Math sections of the accessed at this address: project. In Technology&Math section the https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/119849\/home students were asked to design a Math App for In this project, we aimed at understanding the mobile phone. What must it do? And their how visually impaired students cope with creativity was beyond expectations! In Science mathematics and raising awareness on this &Math students researched the life and work issue, also aimed explaining the relevance and of famous scientist who used Math in their work, prepared presentations and discussed about the importance of interdisciplinarity. History&Math section was about famous mathematicians in history, they researched and learnt a lot of new information about mathematicians and what they discovered. Art&Math section is one of the most unexpected sections of the Project. Besides studying the role of mathematics in painting, sculpture, architecture, music or dance, we thought about performing some hands-on activities. As the final product, our Etamin Cover product was created with the active participation of partner schools in order to emphasize the relationship between mathematics and art. Thanks to the web 2.0 tools used in this project and the team work, the students enhanced their 21st century skills: critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, collaboration and communication. We also developed some traditional skills, since most of them never did or see any cross-stitch work till this project, yet, our final product is a collection of schools logo and letters sewed on etamine.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter the relationship between Mathematics and other branches, and how mathematics is intertwined with our daily lives at the end of the year. In addition, they learned what famous mathematicians have achieved by researching their lives, and how effectively mathematics is used by scientists in their studies. This is the most important indicator that our project has achieved its purpose. We discovered the joys of working together in a harmonious way. Besides the topics designed at the beginning \u00d6zlem Eren has been teaching different levels of of the project, we also had collected examples mathematics in different cities of Turkey for 21 years. She of good practice in remote mathematics, we now works as a math teacher at Toki \u015eehit Ismail Tetik send new year wishes to our partners, and we Anadolu High School in Eski\u015fehir Odunpazar\u0131. She hasbeen celebrated Safer Internet Day and eTwinning actively working on the eTwinning platform for about 4 Day. years. She has been invited to the tenth national eTwinning conference. Banu G\u00fcven has been a Math teacher for 28 years and now works in one of the best High Schools of Turkey: Meram Anadolu Lisesi. She has been an eTwinner for 5 years and an active user of the eTwinning platform for 3 years. Adriana Mari\u0219 is a Mathematics teacher at Liceul Teoretic Coriolan Brediceanu in Lugoj, Romania. She has been an eTwinner since 2010 and an eTwinning ambassador since 2013. The impact of the project on our students was extraordinary. At the beginning of the year, our students, who thought that Mathematics was only about solving questions, discovered","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter eTwinning Project Each month we explored a right of the CRC and the sustainable development goals \u201cOur Rights: Our (Agenda 2030) linked to that right, we became aware of the barriers (poverty, war...) that Voice or a Better prevent children in other countries to enjoy their rights. We learnt about young activists World\u201d who fight for that right and we worked for a common task to celebrate the International by Anna Andriulo and Day that marks the issues related to the right we had just taken into examination. Zehra Kayaaslan Plenty of interesting involving activities \u201cOur Rights: our voice for a better world\u201d is an eTwinning project which engaged six schools We started with a pre-test to know our pupils\u2019 (Italy, Greece, Spain and two schools form awareness of children\u2019s rights, then we Turkey) and around 150 students aged 12-14 involved our students in activities that guided with the aim of guiding them to become aware them to understand the difference between of important topics such as the children's needs (water, food, clothing\u2026) and wants. rights, internet safety, environmental issues, They learnt about art. 27 (Right to a safe the evil consequences of prejudices and home, healthy food and clothing) and did discrimination. research to find out how this right is enjoyed by children all over the world. Each partner school chose two countries and dealt with the geographical aspect, the climate, the resources and problems in those countries, the traditional cuisine, the traditional clothes, traditional houses. All our research was shared in three common padlet maps. Next we dealt with the right to be protected from war (art 38, 39 and goal 16), we analysed the problem of child soldiers, made collaborative posters about the right to be protected from war and we celebrated the International Day of Neutrality by printing and showcasing the posters in the corridors and in the main hall of our school. Moreover, pupils did some researches about national young heroes who fought to free their nation and shared them in a common Canva presentation. Finally they decorated an interactive Christmas card created by Genially with their kind thoughts to thank these heroes. In January we investigated the right to education (art 28-29), we involved our pupils in a common lesson created by Google Slides and presented by Peardeck where all teachers had previously uploaded interesting","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter files, links, videos and activities like interactive questions, common boards to engage pupils in discussion. After learning about the reasons why so many children are obliged to leave school, each partner school did research about young activists who fight for this right and shared their work in a common presentation made by Bookcreator. In February we learnt about the right to be informed and to be protected from harmful information (art. 17). We involved our pupils in activities that helped them to become aware of the Internet risks, they learnt how to discriminate between facts and opinions, how to recognize the reliability of online content, how to avoid unsafe behaviours online. They celebrated the safer Internet Day by playing the online games about the Internet risks that all the partners had created. In March - April we learnt about the right to clean water and clean environment (art. 24). We analysed the problem of clean water in many countries, we all became aware of the environmental problems that each ecosystem is facing thanks to the Genially presentation where teachers uploaded links, videos and activities. Pupils from each partner school did research about young climate activists and shared their research on a common Google Earth presentation. Finally, all the partners collaborated to write the text of a common song for our Earth to celebrate the Earth\u2019s Day. In May we learnt about the right to be treated fairly (art. 2), the importance of overcoming prejudices and of considering diversity as a value that makes our society richer. We involved our pupils in a collaborative lesson created by Nearpod and they had fun interacting while writing in the common boards.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter We organized our pupils into five but we went on with our online lessons and transnational teams for our final work. Pupils pupils went on interacting with their met their teammates in a meeting organized classmates and with partners thanks to the by wonder.me and each team discussed the tools offered by the TwinSpace: pages, forum, final product about discrimination they and polls and thanks to the common activities wanted to create. This is the Genially that we had organized together. Cooperation presentation where all the transnational among teachers was fruitful and inspiring teams\u2019 works were collected. because each of us shared new ideas, resources, methodologies and engaging How was it possible to carry out all the practices. The lessons about the right to activities during the pandemic? education, for example, was the result of the fruitful collaboration of all teachers who had The five pillars of our partnership were our uploaded interesting materials, files, links and strong commitment to the project, effective had created interactive activities in a common communication, cooperation, monitoring and presentation created by Google slide and flexibility. presented to pupils by Pear deck. The lesson about environmental problems was again the Effective communication is the key to working result of the common effort of all teachers who together as a team, we had regular meetings uploaded files, videos, games about and we exchanged messages in order to know environmental problems in a common Genially the progress of the project, to plan future presentation. Finally, the lesson about activities, to give information about the roles prejudices and discrimination was planned by for a particular task. We collaborated in every all teachers who shared materials, videos and step of the project since the planning of the activities in a common Nearpod lesson. project schedule. We preferred planning Moreover, each of us created or looked for activities that could be done online, in case of easy tutorials about the digital tools that we a lockdown, we could continue working at had to use for the planned activities and ease. Schools were locked down in November, uploaded them in our common digital tool library. Monitoring had an important role because it allowed us to make adjustments in our teaching methods and strategies but also in the planning of future activities. We observed our pupils at work and play, how they interacted with teachers and with peers, their involvement in the project activities, their contribution to the work team, if they respected the deadlines. Flexibility was another key element, as a matter of fact throughout the project the original plan was modified in some parts because we took into consideration the feedback of our pupils, the results of our chats, the mid survey, but also the circumstances imposed by the pandemic. Impact of the project The project had a significant impact on each of us on many levels: it deepened our empathy to everybody, it helped us to become more responsible and more competent citizens.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Thanks to monitoring we could also Anna Andriulo is an English teacher at \u201cMaterdona-Moro\u201d understand which aspects of the project were Lower Secondary School in Mesagne (BR), Italy. She is an mostly appreciated by pupils. Pupils loved awarded eTwinner interested in New Technology, making new friends and cooperating with them Literature, Environment and Sustainable Development. for a common goal, they were excited to be involved in the same activities as their Zehra Kayaaslan is an English teacher at 23 Nisan partners, they were happy to collaborate with Secondary School in Nevsehir, Turkey. She is an awarded their classmates despite they were all having eTwinner interested in Foreign Languages, Environment, home lessons. They also appreciated learning Art, Cross Curricular, Design and Technology, Drama, about the children\u2019s rights and becoming Ethics, European Studies. aware of the many problems that their peers all over the world are obliged to face every day. They were very happy to learn English by being involved in more motivating activities and felt satisfied because their opinions and suggestions were taken into consideration when teachers planned the activities. The idea of creating the interactive games for the internet safer day, the idea of having more chats and of discussing about problems in forums, the decision about the common product that each transnational team had to produce was theirs. Their participation to common challenges like the composition of the collaborative song for our Earth or the production of the works by each transnational team increased their motivation and enhanced their team work skills. They also improved their interaction in English and their social skills thanks to many activities: they discussed, listened to others\u2019 opinions, made decisions and found solutions when they wrote the song text, when they created the logos, the collaborative posters, the collaborative presentations, the games on e-safety. They combined their knowledge about environmental problems and their language and digital skills when they wrote the common song about environmental issues, when they read a passage about Snake and Frog and transformed it into comics, but also when they read documents about the internet risks and created digital games. This allowed them to improve their digital competence, social and cultural consciousness and to master their competence in English.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Project eTwinning \/ The project initially lasted 24 months and then Erasmus+\u201dAct Green\u201d was extended by one year due to the Covid 19 by Vasilica Gazdac epidemic included short-term training events for teachers (Kangasala, Finland-2 teachers) Ecological issues, environmental protection and exchanges of student groups in short- behaviors are the needs identified at the level term (Vialonga, Portugal-4 teachers and 6 of our educational institution and for their students; Gambetolla, Italy-1 teacher and 3 solution the involvement in the eTwinning \/ students; Nokia, Finland-3 teachers and 6 Erasmus + project was a valuable opportunity students) and virtual mobility (Plathy for professional training of teachers and Imathias, Greece and Salva, Romania). students involved. The activities were planned according to the Over the course of 36 months (2018-2021), didactic principle from simple to complex, in the Vocational School \u201cTiberiu Morariu\u201d Salva, this sense we list: project calendars, county Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania was involved Wordclouds posters, virtual maps with in the Multilateral Project Erasmus + \u201cAct endangered animals(Zeemap and Thinklink) Green\u201d No: 2018-1-FI01-KA229-047262. The collaborative movies with outdoor games, project partners were the following European setting up the garden school vegetables, educational institutions: Huutijarven Koulu, digital puzzles(Jinsawplanet), scientific Kangasala, Finland-project coordinator, Vihola experiments, research studies on the impact Koulu, Nokia, Finland, Istituto Compresivo of pollution from various sources, teaching Gambettola, Italy, Agrupamento de Escolas de activities in partner schools conducted in direct Vialonga, Portugal, Dimotiko Scholeio Plateos mobility and virtual mobility, environmental Imathias, Greece and our institution. lesson projects at different age levels (preschool-gymnasium), the book with The strategic partnership project in the school European nature parks -Green footprints field (KA229) had as objectives the (https:\/\/issuu.com\/vasilicagazdac\/docs\/p22- development of ecological behaviors of lower green_footprints_book). secondary school students, the development of digital and ecological skills of teachers, the Other collaborative products made within the development of collaborative educational project can be consulted here: products, raising community awareness of environmental issues. \uf0b7 Green schools calendar 2019: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/500279 \uf0b7 Teachers lessons plans and realization of hours are recorded","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter and shared for general use: testimonials, in travel diaries, by sharing the https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net experiences of schoolmates. \/72509\/pages\/page\/583873 \uf0b7 \\\"Eco Games\\\" a movie with 2 The participating teachers improved their selected outdoor games from language skills, ecological behavior and IT each country: skills by adopting good educational practices https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net from the partner schools they used in the \/72509\/pages\/page\/1534858 classroom. \uf0b7 Eco-day of languages- wordclouds: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/726657 \uf0b7 Eco steps on Europe map- thinglink: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/856272 \uf0b7 Scientific research of climate changing: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/821728 \uf0b7 Eco-peace Day arts: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/1652057 \uf0b7 Green activities Romania: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net \/72509\/pages\/page\/1593538 The challenge we encountered in the life cycle of the project was the development of activities in virtual format during March 2019- 2021, both collaborative activities and especially virtual mobility that were an opportunity to validate examples of digital activities in the context of conferences with hundreds of participating students and teachers held daily during a week in the schools involved. In our future projects or actions in the context of eTwinning or Erasmus + we will use the digital skills formed at the level of students and teachers to carry out blended \/ hybrid learning (alternating face-to- face learning with digital learning) in order to include as many direct beneficiaries in activities. The contribution to the proper implementation of Erasmus + projects by students aged 11-13 has a considerable impact on the education process because they are exposed to different learning environments than those existing in formal learning and non-formal experiences have been recorded in photo albums, in","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The project was awarded with national eTwinning Quality Certificates in the partner countries, with the European eTwinning Quality Certificate and won the second place at the National eTwinning Project Competition (ISE Bucharest) in the Environmental Protection and Climate Change (2020) section. The visibility and dissemination actions of the The results of the project can be consulted or project focused during the three years of the downloaded as open resources of the project project on setting up a Facebook page that you can find here as valuable educational addressed to the general public, the blog page resources: and the most complex collaborative work can https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/72509\/home be found in the Twinspace page. https:\/\/erasmusactgreen.blogspot.com\/ https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/29026263 There were regular press briefings on the 5118491\/ actions carried out, numerous actions were held to mark the days of specific importance: Our the eTwinning \/Erasmus+ projects we are Erasmus+ Days, eTwinning Days, webinars conducting have enriched our educational with interested teachers at national level with experiences and helped us to get the status the support of the MERITO Project and the school as a centre of good European ErasmusRO, project writing workshops step by educational practices, becoming an Erasmus step in the context of the new Erasmus+ 2020 accredited school in school education action carried out with the support of ISBN, field that binds us to excellence in learning carrying out the steps proposed in the process. dissemination plan of the project. Vasilica Gazdac works at Tiberiu Morariu School in Salva, I thank the school project team, the students Romania. She is a pre-school teacher and also the and their parents, the school management, for coordinator of European projects at the institution level. the support provided in the implementation She is an eTwinning ambassador, Methodist teacher at the and dissemination of the activities. Bistri\u021ba-N\u0103s\u0103ud School Inspectorate, Erasmus+RO DEOR ambassador.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Saved Words \\\"Bread House Sofia\\\". Link: by Tsvetelena https:\/\/padlet.com\/TARALOVA\/b9r2f1yw4m1c Taralova Let me tell you about our SEDIFIEE project - The culmination of the Solidarity activity Strengthening Equality, Diversity and Inclusion followed - after a competition was announced, for an Intercultural European Education, under we selected four students who participated in the Erasmus+ program KA229, in which we the international project meeting in Croatia, also use the eTwinning platform. Our partners just before the start of the pandemic. The are schools from Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain excitement was great because none of the and Turkey. The main goal of the project is to young people had been involved in such apply new methods to increase motivation, mobility. acquisition of knowledge and skills to understand human relationships. Our focus is It was not an ordinary trip for any of us, a better understanding of the meaning of because the topic was very sensitive and we human values, which are sub-themes in our all felt the magic of helping others, as the common work, namely intercultural experience exceeded our expectations. I share communication, European cooperation, two of the activities in which we participated in solidarity, social integration, gender equality Croatia. and freedom. To express our solidarity with the different, we And now it's time to share with you our saved visited the Home for the Elderly in the partner words related to the Solidarity activity. Just city of Osijek and had prepared a folk dance to before the start of the pandemic, our students represent Bulgaria. We will not forget the were given a task to do a research on tears in the eyes of the elderly people, some organizations in Bulgaria that are in solidarity of whom had difficulty moving, but were very with people in need and are involved in happy. charities. We kept the information on Padlet wall, but the word \\\"solidarity\\\" was present in The next activity in which we kept the the students' emotional stories and had important word \\\"solidarity\\\" was writing stories. touched each of them. After the presentation In international teams, students wrote about of various volunteer activities, the young the topic in shared Google documents on the people participated in a live initiative, TwinSpace, presented their thoughts, and kneading bread for people in need in the finally voted for the best story: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/85808\/pages\/ page\/814997","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Tsvetelena Taralova is the head teacher at National High School of Finance and Business in Sofia, Bulgaria, an eTwinning ambassador and a Google educator \u2013 Level 1. And so we have stored our experiences and results of working on SEDIFIEE Solidarity not only in our souls, but also in the blog and in the workspace of the eTwinning project. And the students participating in the workshop in Croatia improved their \\\"soft\\\" skills and became even more involved in school life, setting an example for their classmates, supporting teachers and school management in building a more successful learning environment. TwinSpace: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/85808\/home Project blog: https:\/\/sedifieebg.blogspot.com\/","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Kids Are Seeds - made greeting cards, poems and drawings on the occasion of this days). My Soul eTwinning The students were supported and guided by Project their parents, grandparents and older brothers to perform the most spectacular works. The by Alina Mihailescu time spent together maintained physical and mental health in optimal parameters. Being part of the eTwinning community was Participating in this project motivated me to the most beautiful experience I have had in use computer technology and explore new the last year and I recommend it to all digital technology tools and resources, and my teachers for the benefits it brings to teaching skills improved and enriched considerably. but also personally. For my children, it was the first opportunity to The eTwinning project \\\"Kids are seeds\\\" was a have contact with other children from different complex project, with a multidisciplinary parts of Europe. They learned using many curricular approach with various activities that useful tools, which will certainly be useful in fit perfectly in the current context of education the future. Their parents greatly appreciated and that offered teachers, children and our work and the chance to take part in the parents, possible to spend quality time , in the international etwinning project KIDS ARE difficult period of the pandemic. All the tasks SEEDS. They considered it motivating for their of the project were adapted to the age level of children to learn English and show the the children, were fascinating, varied and practical value of education. motivated to develop creative skills, communication and cooperation, the main goal The most important thing for me, as a of the project being to develop the image and teacher, was the involvement of my students. creativity of children. Some of them surprised me with their works and ideas. The children interacted with colleagues from partner countries and were involved in The project was rewarded with the National creative learning activities, which motivated Quality Label, with the European Quality Label and attracted them. Mixed work teams were and the Second Prize in the category of formed. Before starting the project activities, Preschool Education (2020) the children had online meetings with their partners and this inspired their progress in the Examples of good practice during the project: project. Handmades with seeds: I have constantly collaborated on whatsapp in the group of the Kids are seeds project, but also on the forum or direct meeting present in the eTwinning space. Common products have been developed and appropriate ICT tools have been used to facilitate collaboration. 8 mixed, transnational teams were formed (presentation of each country- children presented their country, traditional dances, traditional food, tourist attractions in their country) Father's Day- children wrote letters,","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Mix Team E Pictures, drawings:","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Culture in Action by Muri\u00e8le Dejaune Our Erasmus+\/eTwinning project Culture in action allowed teams of students and teachers from 4 countries (Cyprus, France, the Netherlands and Slovakia) to work together on discovering their cultural heritage around them. The project was planned on two years but with the pandemic situation, the four coordinators decided to postpone it to another year and thus we hoped to be able to do our last Learning Training and Teaching Activity in the school of our Dutch partners. But in vain, we had to change our plan and end our project with a three-day-online-meeting. During this extra year, though our students in the different countries were in lockdown at home and were taught online most of the year, they continued to fulfill the different tasks to finish our project. First, they videoed themselves answer four questions concerning the project and which were later used for our Live TV show at the end of our project. Second, they created quizzes with LearningApps on different themes on the geography, culture, gastronomy of the Netherlands to be used in our Escape Game. Third, they selected the quizzes among all those which had been created all along the project in order to be used in our Escape Game. Fourth, they chose free copyright music to be used for our Escape Game. Fifth, they created the Escape Game with Genially. Sixth, they prepared questions to be asked to a Member of the European Parliament and during our virtual visit of the European Parliament. Alina Mihailescu is a preschool teacher at Grigore Mihaescu Secondary School Vladesti, Romania. She registered on eTwinning platform on January 15th 2020. I love to work in eTwinning projects, being involved in several and so far I was rewarded with National and European Quality Label.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter In May, three-day-online meeting was In international teams they wrote the reports organized in mixing pleasure and funny of each day in order to write the newsletter of activities with hardworking activities. these online meetings. They were put in Ice breaking activities were organized such a breakout rooms so they could exchange more Kahoot (a quiz online) to know about much directly. the participants have learnt during this project and another one on the second day to know The Dutch team organized a Live TV show on how they felt and how they would see their YouTube live stream. They presented their future. school, their city, their region and organized a quiz and intertwined interviews that our The activities during this three-day-online students had prepared before. This Live TV meeting perfectly fitted to the continuity of our show was very interactive. Our students could project. People from the School Ambassador of answer and ask questions in the live chat. the European Parliament Programme helped Evaluations of the online meeting and of the the teachers to find the MEP. Mrs Tolleret, a project were done too. French MEP, accepted to participate in this exchange and she answered different The impacts of this project are huge and questions on Europe to our students. This was numerous on students, on teachers and on our followed by a virtual visit to the European schools. It allowed students to work in Parliament; this visit was presented by Ellynn international teams and to improve their Del Perugia and Lucie Barreira who both work language skills. It gave them more confidence for the visit department for the European and autonomy in themselves. They definitely Parliament. gained a deeper understanding and knowledge of the partner countries and increased In National teams our students virtually visited tolerance and respect towards diversity. In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and they their final evaluation they confirmed the discovered the masterpieces by the great improvement of competencies like Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. They collaboration, team work skills, ICT skills, self played a treasure hunt through the museum autonomy and self confidence and they even where they had to find keys and those keys began to be more interested in school life and corresponded to a letter that they had to working harder on their knowledge and skills. arrange in order to find a word. The project is visible on our TwinSpace: Link. In breakout rooms and in international teams If you want to play with our Escape Game: in order to have our students exchanged, they Link. tested and played with the Escape Game that was created all along our project. Muri\u00e8le Dejaune teaches in a vocational school English and French. She has been an eTwinning ambassador for more than 12 years and has realized many awarded eTwinning and Erasmus projects. In view of the benefits for her students, she cannot help doing eTwinning projects.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter \u201cFuture Journalists\u201d and share with all students, staff, parents and wide community via school sites etc. Students eTwinning Project not only explore journalism, complete research, practise literacy and ICT skills, but 2021 are also creative in thinking and mindful of the readers or viewers in European countries. by Carmen Mirela They edit or shoot documentaries using ICT tools and digital platforms. Administrators Butaciu create posts on homepage, organize peers to carry out activities like assembling digital Media contributes to democratisation artworks, share or upload them on Twinspace. processes, being considered the Fourth Pillar They organize peers how to talk on of Democracy. We live in an increasingly documentaries, edit them on Pages and complex society, with democracies threatened Student Forum. Students participate in by the rise of social media, having a distorting evaluation in prepolls, surveys, Twin polls effect on our perception of reality. Mass supplying feedback on results. We create surveillance, disinformation, declining trust in threads on Forum to let students submit votes institutions and journalism undermine and opinions related to the topic and practise democratic values and governance that have English. The products are informative, carry a raised increased global concerns, especially in wide variety of features on technology, gender current global crisis. Students become eqaulity and climate change. In producing, journalists and anchor-persons determined to students explore, write, record, which enables investigate various aspects of sustainable them to become European citizens. Students development goals such as technology, gender and teachers maintain strong links, exchange equality, climate change, using a wide array of findings, info and ideas by letters, email, media: print journalism (newspaper & online meetings, sites and Twinspace. We magazines) and videos, via a range of intend to address and acquire linguistic and educational platforms and Web 2.0 tools. The digital competencies developing reading and page of the project is: writing skills in foreign language learning. https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/89043\/home. Individual and joint projects upon completion Our website is: are shared with all pupils, families and wide https:\/\/futurejournalistsetwinning.weebly.com. community, promoting great understanding and tolerance of similarities and differences Our project aims at developing media literacy between cultures and languages. and critical thinking through learning how The project mostly attributes to English language and media are used to alter public subject, but the methodological approach is opinion. We reach objectives using various with integrated topic learning, addressing topics, studying and using media to highlight various themes like technology, gender implications that can be generalized so they equality, climate change and so on. Students lead to increased awareness and contribute to brush up their English by communicating with critical thinking in both project students and peers of different countries, improving external students and teachers, being able to communication skills, developing soft skills, profit from materials. We intend to give leadership, entrepreneurial skills too. Students students opportunity to make Europe+ and teachers use ICT tools to increase their friends, learn about cultures and languages, ability of technology usage. Their artistry improve ICT skills. Our common outcomes are ability enhances due to the designs of news a YouTube Channel, a Newspaper, a Website videos. and e-books. On completion, schools collate Our project can be integrated into many fields of subjects like English, Psychology, Technology, Sciences and Human Studies. Students learn how to use persuasive","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter language and reflect on language power, quizzes set by themselves, campaign for analyse and produce language chunks of children's rights, #togetherathome lockdown (online) newspaper articles, learn how etc. We have common outputs shared on language influences decision-making and how European+ Youtube Channel and Newspaper we think.They get to understand the threats in English including students' works, websites, and benefits of media on democracy, Facebook group and page, Twinpace, monthly enhancing awareness of democratic values, magazines, blog, monthly online newspaper: recognise the importance of media literacy and https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/Ch2MeSZMuNT critical thinking, and enhance inter-cultural 3J\/?fbclid=IwAR0BTq0QNrTaHZDwC1d03MzaP awareness. They strengthen their critical- qQ6Q1IRoFFjo0FOpquwSAfMxqLwSsHdVnQ thinking skills using new technologies and https:\/\/www.utellstory.com\/viewstory\/view\/41 communication methods in research, 68d3af0a07e40726138d6caeff964#.XsvnO1Qz increasing intercultural dialogue among e-pals, bIV get increased empowerment and self-esteem https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/5ecd2bd2f5c0cc0d15d9 by developing analytical, media and speaking 5c0d\/presentation-future-journalists-monthly- skills (speeches, debates), acquiring social, agendas civic, intercultural competences, promoting https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/rDlLgJiWAHQbg democratic, fundamental rights, as well as \/ https:\/\/www.ourboox.com\/books\/future- active citizenship. 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Each partner school's 052\/presentation-future-journalist-common- documentaries are published on various product-for-october platforms, students and teachers being https:\/\/www.utellstory.com\/viewstory\/view\/41 involved in Facebook Group, Padlet,Twinspace, 68d3af0a07e40726138d6caefff964#.XvjF2Ucz national based news etc. Y2z https:\/\/youtu.be\/-4snOi0suHA https:\/\/view.genial.ly\/5ea0978b8b3e6b0d945 Members use Twinmail to communicate or ac9b6\/presentation-future-journalist- make announcements, and heavily use etwinning-project-newspaper Whatsapp to become more coordinated. Forum https:\/\/www.ourboox.com\/books\/celebrating- talks are organized for students for etwinning-day\/ introductions, warm-ups and English practice. https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/rDlLgJiWAHQbg We form a Facebook Group to communicate \/ https:\/\/anyflip.com\/retyv\/mfwm\/ faster and upload documentaries easily. Final https:\/\/edu.cospaces.io\/CNA-QZL products are compiled in e-books and the https:\/\/youtu.be\/M46jPr7yZGs Etwin News Channel. To display our https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/89043\/forum documentaries to a wider public, we slide https:\/\/www.canva.com\/design\/DAD5XeaUqfw presentations, share the news of project on \/share\/preview?token=ptWaqgOSkLPqy3M1m different sites. We create surveys on results ukxpA&role=EDITOR&utm_content=DAD5Xea and impacts for our schools and students to Uqfw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medi see if the expected results are achieved. um=link&utm_source=sharebutton Students are very active in Twinspace and Facebook group. They hold responsibility like To ensure security on Net students and editing or shooting videos and documentaries teachers study Netiquette and Copyright from and take part in voting process. Each school the onset. For each student teachers get works for the same theme and concepts and parents' permission to publish videos online so follow the same steps and processes. They as to ensure their e-security. Moreover, also work in mixed teams, have journalism students share their works freely both on","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Facebook group, Twinspace or Whatsapp of the project, we share news on a wide range groups. They express their views by of sites about the process, activities and comments on partners' posts. On Twinspace products. In order to disseminate further, each only members can see and reach students' partner designs school boards or exhibitions, names and details. On Facebook we form a with outputs and products being published on closed group so outsiders cannot reach their various platforms. We also have a page names, photos or videos. We use ICT tools dedicated to web tools in order that partners such as Genially to display introduction of may boost and enhance their usage pool and project and monthly agendas, Canva, knowledge of technology in education, as well Postermywall etc. to design logos and posters, as tutorials and students' evaluation of some Genially, Ourboox, Spark, Flipsnack, tools. Also, informal tutorials are willingly and Storyjumper, Calameo, Joomag, Anyflip, promptly provided whenever the need arises, Utellstory etc to make announcements and via valuable peer learning both between share final products and outputs, surveys and students and between teachers. polls to see current and final impacts and results. All videos are edited by students through the Students get courage to express themselves in most appropriate necessary editing English, this project being a new experience applications and digital platforms such as Viva for them, but with clear progress and Video, Scoompa, Movie Editor, VideoCollage, empathisation. Our students really enjoy Animoto, Kizoa, AdobeSpark, Quik, Biugo, SpeakPic and so on. Each student has access to Twinspace using personal usernames and passwords. In order to increase the visibility","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter participating, listening, reading other students' discussions designed by students to analyze answers, practising English, communicating the use of media in their countries. They with their e-pals. They become extremely fond produce dissemination materials, e.g. flyers, of displaying their works, thus spending much videos, posters and a virtual exhibition. Thus, time reading and exchanging ideas. Though at students strengthen and promote awareness first some are nervous recording, they do their of European citizenship, learn and practise best. Student Forum is heavily utilized, with essential social and civic values like 5,000 posts, to get students' and teachers' citizenship, equal opportunity, respect, opinions on project process, activities and strengthen research and documentation skills, results. use of ICT in composing journalistic texts or videos, deepen knowledge and promotion of For evaluation we create both for Teachers one\u2019s artistic or natural area, practise and and Students Pre, Mid and Post polls to get improve mastery of target language, develop their standpoints separately. As final products, writing and speaking skills, public speaking partner schools produce a final YouTube skills, do collaborative work, developing channel entitled Etwin News, a Newspaper, a enquiry skills, critical thinking, European Website and a range of e-books collated and awareness, becoming eco-active responsible shared with the pupils, staff, parents, and the citizens. wide community via school websites, social media and a public TwinSpace. We fabricate My hardworking students and I attend and logos, posters, introductions, multimedia successfully accomplish all activities. I take on presentations, documenting and reflecting on the role of guide, monitor as well as learner, students' analysis of benefits of eTwinning roles easily interchangeable with my students Projects, in online articles in various topical in documentation, processing and works. I contexts, speeches, guidelines to recognize facilly take on propositions from eTwinning propaganda and negative effects on friends regarding suggestions of solving tasks democracy, surveys, forum chats, chat or improving quality level. Throughout, informal tutorials are being held concerning completion of tasks or web tools features, to which I constantly participate. We keep strong bonds with all eTwinning mates, despite language barriers, answer fast and wisely to whatever query might come up along the project course and keep an overall enthusiastic appropriate working environment. Students' works are highly appraised by peers, inducive of their thoroughness and perseverance. Gathering efforts towards similar goals together with our Etwinning+ partners has been a uniquely momentous experience for us. The deeply ingrained relationships lead to further eTwinning projects and arrangements to establish sisterhood partnerships between our school and those of some partners, apart from the one with Ordu school realised upon previous eTwinning collaboration with founder Asli Celik with whom I also write an Erasmus+ project and likely, other Erasmus+.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter We elatedly accomplish all tasks and 4 Seasons STE(A)M in communicate in Whatsapp group. We also compile the outputs into a virtual exhibition Kindergarten with and its video and common and collective works. Our efforts paid off and in 2021 our eTwinning project was awarded with European Prize Runner-up for age category 12-15. by Meropi Mastori Carmen Mirela Butaciu works at Liceul Atanasie and Pinelopi Pezarou Marienescu in Lipova, Romania. She is an English language teacher, the coordinator of eTwinning and In June 2021 we completed the eTwinning Erasmus+ projects in school, a Code Week Leading project \\\"Mr. STEM and the 4 Seasons\\\". It was Teacher, an Edmodo Ambassador, a Wakelet Ambassador, a very creative collaboration related to a Verified Kahoot Author, and a Microsoft Innovative Preschool Education and was implemented, in Education Expert in 2019-2020. the framework of the eTwinning STEM 2 action, organized by the Greek NSS in 2019- 2020. Through the Action 280 beneficiary schools, mainly eTwinning Schools, received robotic equipment and training in order to use it to create similar projects, oriented to the STEM method. The STEM method provides opportunities for skill development by encouraging children to answer questions and engage in playful science, math, engineering and technology activities. Online seminars were organized for STEM teachers, so that they could specialize in the STEM community and work as multipliers until the end of the action. The results expected from the process, focus on developing projects to solve authentic problems, in order to prove to students about STEM-related careers and the benefits of their employment in these areas. The project was related to climate action, which is the 13th of the 17 goals of Sustainable Development, but also to the eTwinning Theme of the Year 2020 - Climate Change and Environmental Challenges. Equipped with the First kids and Robotics kit, our 2 Kindergartens from Greece, created the project in collaboration with 1 Kindergarten from Poland, 2 from Slovakia, 1 from Turkey and 2 from Italy, involving preschoolers in introductory activities of Educational Robotics and approaching in a tangible way basic concepts of STE (A) M in order to develop their","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter personal skills, in a favorable learning -To use intuitively various programmable environment. games to locate their basic features (on-off, directional, memory commands). The presence of Mr. STEM activated the imagination of young students, the use of robotic devices served as an effective tool for the development of cognitive structures, and playful activities stimulated the interest of infants by ensuring their active participation and involving them in a variety of interdisciplinary activities. Accompanying this magical journey was Mr. The children worked in groups to provide STEM, the Robot Scientist, who was created solutions to genuine problems - challenges - by all the participating schools, following based on their experiences, interests and specific steps, with a pumpkin as the basic needs. Teaching and learning methods were material. An important aspect was to ensure used such as the exploratory method, the good cohesion in the children\u2019s groups as the Project method and Teaching Techniques such project lasted two school years due to the as Introduction, Dialogue, Questions and suspension of school units due to the Answers, Assessment, Demonstration, Role- pandemic. We started in October 2019, with main goals for the children: -To communicate and collaborate with peers, exchanging ideas that lead to the acquisition of new knowledge -To develop skills such as problem solving, critical and computational thinking and algorithmic approach. -To learn the difference between weather and climate and their effect on anthropogenic and natural environment. -To raise awareness about climate change and act as responsible, active citizens. -To use ICT safely for the production of multimodal material and to come into contact with developmentally suitable robotic devices. -To develop the ability of critical thinking, make decisions, solve problems and model knowledge with programmable games and open source software (eg visualization, simulation, conceptual mapping, general use).","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter playing games, Brainstorming, while through bricks (plastic and wood) they built balance experiential experiences they managed to towers, which they compared by creating bar connect experiential knowledge with areas of graphs so that through data collection, language development, mathematics and new observation, drawing conclusions to engage in technologies. experiential activities related to the provision and development of statistical thinking and Children from a very young age adopt ideas categorical data. and interpretations of concepts and - They collaborated to find the way to Mr. phenomena of the natural world. Our project STEM's lab and they helped him in groups to uses the innate curiosity and intrinsic pack his suitcase, depending on the season, in motivation of preschoolers to discover the order to travel to the participating countries. world around them. It involves them in - They voted for their favorite autumn fruit interesting interdisciplinary activities STEAM and experimenting with various forms of and Educational Robotics, related to the 4 organization and drawing conclusions, they seasons, which develop their personal skills became involved in a graphical data display and promote their scientific literacy. The activity. structure of the project is fully compatible with -They completed given patterns in order to fill the STE(A)M approach to Preschool Education, a snail\u2019s shell. with appropriately designed activities that -They processed the Greek myth of contribute to the achievement of the expected Persephone and presented it in different ways. learning objectives, which are included in the https:\/\/app.genial.ly\/editor\/603685b945209a0 Curricula of all participating countries. Its da4e380bd playful character enhances the activity of - They created group paintings on line for the children, while the interdisciplinary approach alternation of day and night and the of the concepts in combination with the use of movement of the earth emphasizing the various means, methodologies and teaching reflection of the sun and moon in the water. tools contributes to the all-round development - Instructed students from Slovakia to build a of students, enhancing both their cognitive snowman. and kinesthetic abilities and the cultivation of -They created, reproduced, analyzed, \u201csoft skills \\\". composed a pattern using different flat materials so as to form a common tangram- Algorithmic and Programming activities of flower. scalable difficulty were organized, which were https:\/\/jamboard.google.com\/d\/1gHrfJ1QEpmi initially implemented without the use of a BmBwtjuGWbPGur6qURLAeJBZlwyTHZj8\/viewe computer, in order to approach basic concepts r?f=0 of programming. It was really impressive the - Digitized, decoded the snowflake image change of participation and interest that using Pixel Art, so that they become familiar children showed with the scientific fields of with the coding and decoding of an image and STEM. its transfer to a worksheet. -They placed objects in square environments Through excellent cooperation, all the partners to get acquainted with the meaning of the contributed with their own ideas and proposals coordinates in the design and implementation of the https:\/\/app.genial.ly\/editor\/602cd7975e7a6b0 activities but also with the creation and da56df581 organization of the project pages and activities - They dealt with the weather phenomena and such as: the changes of the weather, using -The children first met Mr. STEM, through his meteorological symbols, created a weather message, exchanged impressions, imitated the record table, explored the weather conditions robots and following the relevant algorithm, of other countries while at the same time they made him the mascot of the project. got acquainted with the recording, - In the context of getting to know each other presentation and comparison of data. and using materials such as large construction","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter - Through observation, correlation, We have to emphasize that the participation of comparison, recording and formulation of children with special educational needs was observations, they conducted experiments remarkable with support at all stages of the with water in order to know in a playful way implementation of the activities with the some of its properties such as float- appropriate guidance of the Special Education immersion, solubility, melting-coagulation teachers. A fact that proves the use of STEAM after previously learning about the three and educational robotics as a strong stimulus physical states of water (solid, liquid, gas) and for the cultivation of skills in all learning the hydrological cycle with the help of fairy profiles. tales and poems that refer to it. -They created a collaborative digital book on Use of Technology the occasion of the eruption of Mount Etna The use of Technology runs throughout the over the city of our Italian partners, which project, introducing innovative interventions in contains photographs of the affected area, the learning process with the main aim of children's drawings, 3D illustration of the presenting Twinspace as a secure volcano, volcano experiment and a digital communication framework. All parents were magazine with extreme weather phenomena informed and gave written consent to receive after being informed about it. photographic material. Various tools were https:\/\/www.storyjumper.com\/book\/read\/994 used that promoted communication and 39416\/6037e486accd9#page\/30 collaboration between all participants, https:\/\/madmagz.com\/magazine\/1862498#\/ promoting the achievement of the initial goals. -They collected photographic material from the In particular, a number of digital application area of their residence by completing a tools were used by teachers and children such requested list of Spring messages (Spring as: Scavenger Hunt). -Photo editors for creating posters and photo -They created a collaborative digital poster collages: pizap, photovisi, postermywall, pixiz, with the collage technique and with a summer canva theme, using geometric flat shapes. -Video editors: animoto, wevideo, scooba, MV -Through the reading of fairy tales they Master. proposed solutions for the protection of the -The chatterpix app and robot voice converter environment, - They exchanged relevant messages with our secret coded alphabet and finally - They organized ecological missions by programming the floor robots of the classroom and making 3D models.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter - Digital padlet board for the creation of our evaporation-condensation, float-sinking, day- interactive map, but also for posting requested night, weather, weather \/ climate, activities, except the usage of Twinboard. meteorology, climate change, and - Pearltrees presentation software programming principles such as algorithm, -Trello.com platform for organizing activities. binary, coding system were approached while -Coggle to create concept map. augmented reality activities were also -The presentation tools google presentations, implemented. smore, genially, wakelet and emaze. -The interactive digital google jamboard. Thus the children developed skills that are - Thinglink.com for creating interactive imperative for the preparation of tomorrow's images. citizens of the world, who by understanding -Google.docs for collaborative coding activities today's technologies become pioneers of the -Pollunit.com for our vote. future. The project\u2019s evaluation was done -Colorillo online drawing for collaborative real- through a questionnaire for teachers with very time painting. positive impressions, while the children chose -Storyjumber and madmagz for the creation of the category of activities of their choice. In our collaborative digital books. addition, several parents who were thrilled -The tools learningapps, TYNKER, genially, with their children's response and interest jigsaw explorer for the creation of online stated their intention to enroll them in games. summer robotics classes. -Augmented reality applications, Quiver and Arloopa. The results of the project were disseminated -Sutori presentation for exchanging ecological through the blogs of our schools, the fb and proposals. the information of the parents by sending -Finally the answergarden and the google digital material to our Messenger group. forms for the evaluation of children and Additional activities were disseminated teachers but also for the parents\u2019 through events at eTwinning live and with our questionnaire. participation in the European educational activities Safe Internet Day 2021, Code Week Evaluation and Dissemination 4 All and STEM DISCOVERY WEEK. The evaluation of our participation in the Action is absolutely positive as the benefits we Both Meropi Mastori and Pinelopi Pezarou have been obtained were multiple and unique with the teachers for several years in Greek Public Kindergartens. most important being the acquisition of the They have collaborated in many eTwinning projects and robotics set without any burden for the school that is how they met.Mer\u03bfpi holds a Master\u2019s degree in unit, but also the relevant training from Computer Science in Education and Pinelopi is an renowned trainers. eTwinning Ambassador and Head Teacher in Experimental Kindergarten. The implementation of the project contributed to our professional development as teachers, as it offered opportunities for the application of modern visions for learning, upgrading our teaching practice and our educational work. Our school has met technological challenges, giving equal opportunities to all toddlers and compensating for access to knowledge. It gave preschoolers the opportunity to feel equal team members, to experiment, to explore, to have fun discovering and building knowledge and get involved in environmental volunteering. At the class level, concepts such as patterns, equilibrium, gravity, reflection,","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter TwinStar \u2013 knowledge and understanding of the space, as well as to the stimulation of the curiosity for eTwinning Project its investigation. Teachers worked together to improve learning and homework. The beauty by Monica Mihaela of collaboration was not only to enter into different perspectives and ideas, but also to Be\u0219cu share the responsibility for learning our students. Collaboration with project partners eTwinning is the community of schools in was effective, because we had online meetings Europe and offers teaching staff working in and chat meetings, we talked constantly on schools in participating European countries on our WhatsApp group. I believe that the project a platform for communication, collaboration, has achieved its proposed objectives. It was a project start-up and information exchange. We wonderful project. have found in eTwinning all the opportunities that a teacher needs to overcome themselves. So, after learning about eTwinning, I knew that this platform gave me exactly what I needed. \\\"TwinStar\\\" is the first eTwinning project I participated in. The project brought together partners from 2 countries such as: Romania and Turkey. Our project started in March and ended in June. The project activities were diverse, attractive and involved the involvement and collaboration of students in the TwinSpace common space, to initially make personal presentations of countries and schools, then prepare a project logo and vote for the most suggestive and then activities about World, Atmosphere and Space. \\\"TwinStar\\\" is a STEM project in the fiction of sending a shooting star back into space. The students applied 3 STEM implementation plans on the topic of light and space pollution. The objectives of our project were: developing STEM skills in our students; developing scientific process and problem-solving skills, raising awareness of the STEM approach in early education, supporting creative and critical thinking skills, raising awareness about light pollution and space. The project activities were attractive and attracted them from the very beginning. Together with my students, I did many interesting activities. The project contributed to the development of the capacity of","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter All activities were suitable for transmitting Children's lives and personal skills, as well as information using various teaching techniques: social responsibility have increased. drawing, painting, art, participating in social strategy games, watching educational videos The objectives of the project were varied, on YouTube and other educational platforms. complex, common to all partners: involving The project involved a multidisciplinary teachers and students in carrying out joint approach. activities with other schools internationally, developing and stimulating creativity, the ability to express themselves through compositions and practical activities, participation with pleasure and interest in organized activities. By participating in this project, students had the opportunity to communicate with other students from partner countries, learn about cultural or educational elements of partner countries, learn using new technologies and improve their communication skills in a foreign language. I want to involve students in other projects on the eTwinning platform, because I believe that these learning tools aim to educate students so that they can better integrate into social life. The key competencies were obtained: communication in the mother tongue, communication in a foreign language, digital, social and civic competences, initiative, sensitivity and cultural expression. Children have developed skills that are most needed: collaboration, communication and problem solving, acquired largely through social and emotional learning. Children have developed their way of thinking through creativity, innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, learning to learn; their ways of working have also been improved through communication, collaboration, teamwork, ICT literacy.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter A Podcasting eTwinning Project for Content Creation and Sharing at Our Fingertips by Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Fasquel, Maria Rosaria Gismondi, Mariella Sorrentino and Sabine Buckart I think that this project achieved its objectives and contributed to my students gaining knowledge about space. It was a project based on a very good cooperation with partners from other countries. I received positive feedback from my parents. I am happy because I had the chance to participate in this project and work with my wonderful partners. Monica Mihaela Be\u0219cu is a preschool teacher at Gradinita In these times of crisis, hopelessness, and cu Program Prelungit Ion Creanga, Structura Gradinita cu exhaustion, it has been all the more important Program Prelunit, nr.10, Alexandria, Romania. She to come together digitally. Students and registered on the eTwinning platform on October 28, teachers from Italy, France, and Germany 2020. She enjoys working on eTwinning projects. have joined forces in the international eTwinning project \u201cPodcasting project. Content creation and sharing at our fingertips!\u201d.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter This project is manifold which mainly focuses make the best of online pedagogical on helping our youth to build digital resources. competence, both as users and content creators. Moreover, the teachers wanted the In short, the students experienced students to share, to be hopeful again, to collaboration at its best for a whole school learn more about this pandemic, and to show year and were able to escape the fatigue of them that they were not alone in this unique the long-term pandemic! situation. While being mostly in lockdown, the students were still able to broaden their They horizons by learning collaboratively in a wider * started out by presenting themselves and European community. playing games to get to know each other, Working collaboratively allowed them to * presented their school and city creatively, virtually travel through Europe and lean on each other as well as learn from each other. * created a logo for the TwinSpace (their safe The project includes four schools from three environment to exchange on the eTwinning countries: Italy, Germany, and France. The platform) schools are: Lyc\u00e9e \\\"Raoul Dautry\\\", Limoges, France, * studied the essential topic of Fake News in a Liceo \\\"Vito Fazio Allmayer\\\", Alcamo, Italy, period when disinformation could be deadly Hebbelschule Kiel, Germany, (particularly those about Coronavirus). They Liceo \u201cBruno Touschek\u201d, Grottaferrata, Italy. had to learn to debunk fake news to become more informed citizens and then make their The project contains the core elements of own podcast presenting some fake news of successful Project-Based learning: their own as convincingly as possible. Establishing real-world connections, Anchoring the project within school curricula, * studied COVID-19 and online education and Structuring collaboration for students \u2019success, collaboratively interviewed ten experts from Facilitating learning in a student-driven these two fields. Then they made podcasts environment, from these interviews and created their own Embedding assessment throughout the podcasting channels on Soundcloud and project, and Spreaker. Publicly presenting the final products. They worked in groups of 10 including In order to understand the importance of fact- students from the 3 countries and enjoyed checking and critical thinking, the project collaborating and helping each other preparing started with the topic \u201cdisinformation in the an ambitious project, thus unlocking their media\u201d, in which the students learned how to potential in a holistic experience. What is debunk fake news. more, the students owned their studies. One of the main concerns of the teachers was Our podcast stations the promotion of a safer and better Internet, used critically and respectfully. They created an online code of conduct and netiquette to be followed by partner students and teachers; after that, they helped the students create a secure profile in the TwinSpace and tackled copyright issues by teaching them how to implement their intellectual output legally. Special attention was given to awareness of disinformation, scam, and safety online while social distancing. All the teachers strove to","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter - https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/show\/news- What our students liked most: \u201cInteracting with foreign students.\u201d (all injections-from-the-frontline students) - https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/news-injections- \u201cI like exchanging with Italian and German students and broadening my culture\u201d (Clara) etwinning \u201cI enjoyed the project which allowed me to This project allowed all students to learn discover a lot about Italy and Germany as well and improve together, preparing a real-life as about the main topics we studied.\u201d (Cl\u00e9o) project and sharing it with the whole world. In the process it allowed them to improve their \u201cI loved the expert calls and studying with 21st-century skills, in particular other students.\u201d (Eloi, Martin) Creativity (artwork, logos\u2026), Collaboration, \u201cWe can speak about our differences, our Critical thinking, preferences, with students from Italy and Communication, Germany.\u201d (Man\u00e9) Information literacy, Media literacy, \u201c It really has been amazing getting to know Technology literacy, and so many people from all over Europe and the Flexibility. whole process behind a podcast. It also has been very interesting to interview the experts They also learned more about The Sustainable who clarified our doubts about the COVID-19 Development Goals (SDGs), more specifically vaccination and remote learning.\u201d (Silvia C.) about Good Health and Well-being, and \u201cI enjoyed asking questions to experts and Quality Education. learning about COVID-19 from someone who actually fights this pandemic in real life.\u201d eTwinning Podcast Caf\u00e9 (Tigran) The \u201ceTwinning Podcast Caf\u00e9\u201d was conceived as a virtual environment where both teachers \u201cWe have also managed to develop new and students could meet up in a cozy and technological knowledge and common comfortable atmosphere. Students knew that interests. A project that deserves to be done it was not the time to be tested or evaluated in every class.\u201d ( Giulia G.) but relaxed on their couch, and sipping their favorite soft drinks, they could chat about the \u201cI particularly enjoyed the collaboration and latest podcast they had published or one of team spirit!\u201d (Camille) their favourites and why not play live music. In a world upset by the pandemic, where \u201cI improved my English thanks to the travelling has become impossible, the exchanges with the group and the fun tasks.\u201d \u201ceTwinning Podcast Caf\u00e9\u201d was meant to be the (Maxime) ideal virtual place where to get the right feeling of just hanging out at a caf\u00e9, where it \u201cAbove all, the most important thing was the was possible to promote and strengthen opportunity to learn and practice English. It\u2019s relationships, no matter where you lived and a project that has given us so much, and I\u2019m to inspire students. so glad I had an opportunity like this.\u201d (Maria Lucia) \u201cI also learned how to manage a podcast and the various process to create it. It was an immersive experience that I will always take with me. (Claudia A.)","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter \u201cIt has been a different way to comfort each Maria Rosaria Gismondi (Liceo Bruno Touschek, other during this hard period\u201d (Miriam B.) Grottaferrata, Italy) is an EFL teacher, as well as a teacher trainer. She is a qualified supervisor of trainee \u201cWe also learned important new information teachers; her area of expertise mainly covers IT skills and about the pandemic we are experiencing and career guidance. In her daily work she fosters and about vaccines, improving our language skills supports the European and international dimension of and at the same time expanding our education. She is currently responsible for active knowledge. It was truly a well organized and learning implementation in her school and in her area. executed project\u201d (Nadia C.) Mariella Sorrentino (Liceo Vito Fazio Allmayer, Alcamo, \u201cI know that the knowledge I gained will be Italy) has been an English teacher for about 25 years. She very useful to me especially now that we are has a degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures and still in the critical period of the pandemic and she is specialized in digital competences and IT didactics in the future to avoid believing in fake news\u201d applied to language teaching. She has planned and (Giorgia F.) coordinated Comenius projects successfully. She is committed to training teachers taking part in national and \u201cIt was, hands down, the best podcasting international in person and online meet-ups. experience I have ever had\u201d (Girolamo S.) Sabine Buckart (Hebbelschule Kiel, Germany) teaches \u201cThanks to this project I have found out how English and Spanish at high school level. Since 2015 she podcasts are actually made. I began to hear has been engaged in multilateral projects, both on site many of them and I discovered a very and online. As an Erasmus+ ambassador she shares her interesting world. We can't wait to publish our expertise in using ICT as a means to implementing podcast. We are very satisfied with the result international projects into the school curriculum. Her fields we have achieved, it is very rewarding to have of interest are environmental and media education, been able to do a good job as a team.\u201d(Sofia project-based learning, public speaking and debating. R.) Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Fasquel (Lyc\u00e9e Raoul Dautry, Limoges, France) is an English literature teacher, an ESL teacher as well a teacher trainer. She currently works at Lyc\u00e9e Raoul Dautry and at the University of Limoges. She has been awarded several innovation prizes including one at the UNESCO in 2013 and one at the Barcelona Global Forum in March 2014. She has received the French Order of Merit. She is one of the fifty 2017 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize. Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne has been a regular presenter at numerous colloquia and webinars. She was a speaker at the 2017 Echapp\u00e9e Vol\u00e9e talks, at TedxRennes, and a plenary speaker at the 36th TESOL France colloquium. She has authored and co-authored fifteen books (fiction and non-fiction alike).","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Gamified Math my students used WordArt Lessons https:\/\/wordart.com\/, Canva by Anamaria Corina https:\/\/www.canva.com\/ro_ro\/ and their Golumbeanu coloured pencils. This school year I with my students of 6th April was the Global Astronomy Month and I grade have been partners in Gamified Math proposed to play a Learning App Quiz, to Lessons etwinning project create a crossword about Solar System using https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/148083\/home Discovery Education Puzzlemaker and create a starship using Minecraft, activity that was the The aim of this project is to learn Math in a most loved by students. fun way. The pandemic time is so challenging by the remote learning. Students must to adapt to a new way to learn. Some students thinked to be in a vacation. To play is a method to learn acording with that. In this project the coordinators Damla G\u00fcder and Deniz \u00c7ak\u0131r from Turkey have proposed some games for every month \u2013 Matific https:\/\/www.matific.com\/ro\/ro\/home\/, Educandy https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/QUKwzg, Cram https:\/\/www.cram.com\/, Wordwall https:\/\/wordwall.net\/en. All students were administrators, that means they can add, write anything in TwinSpace. At the beginning the students have chosen an avatar and wrote a short presentation. Next, for all task solved in a month they received a badge. One of the common work proposed by me was to create a calendar using Pically Calendar as web 2.0 tool. Another common activity \\\"Gamified Math Lessons eTwinning Project Final Meeting and Closing-Students solve clues with the Digital Escape Room \\\" was a live event. Of curse we celebrated Safer Internet Day, Pi Day, eTwinning Day doing posters. For that","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Some of my students have worked on Teaching Democratic TwinSpace, but some of my students have Values in the Era of uploaded their materials on Google workspace Artificial Intelligence of our Google classroom platform. by Georgia Lascaris and Stavroula Skiada An important part of the project was that every student wrote with interest and responsibility all their posts. At the end of the project I saw the regret of my students to not have more time to solve all tasks. Because the eTwinning project was closed on June 16 and the pages of the project are not public, I wrote a reflective diary. In my opinion, it is important to make visible the work of the students for the parents of the students and for the school comunity. It is important for my students this feedback. The web address of my reflective diary about this project is https:\/\/www.smore.com\/uexgm. Enjoy! Anamaria Corina Golumbeanu is a Math teacher at \\\"Ion \u021auculescu\\\" Secondary School in Craiova, Romania. She is an awarded eTwinner interested in Applied Math, New Technology, Environment and Sustainable Development. eTwinning project: TeachersForEurope: Democratic Values in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Link to the project: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/127910. Introduction This eTwinning project is part of the Erasmus KA3 2018\u20132021 \u201cTeachers4Europe: Setting an Agora for Democratic Culture\u201d and aims to promote the principles and values comprising","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter the EU democratic culture in the context of the contribution and commitment to the project digital age. and to all my amazing partners, especially to Stavroula Skiada from Greece, for their work, The digital revolution is transforming every ideas, support and positive energy. part of our world, shaping the way we live, work, get informed and make decisions. All the activities were student-centred, Taking into account that a large part of our adapted to the students\u2019 age and a great effort students\u2019 daily life is \u201cbeing online\u201d, the was made to involve different group ages in knowledge and respect of fundamental rights the same activities by scaling the knowledge and democratic values in the digital sphere difficulty level. The interaction between becomes more crucial than ever. different age-group students aimed to encourage students to participate more Through a large selection of activities, actively in the project: the older students students from primary and secondary schools took their \u201cmentor\u201d role very seriously and the from Greece, Croatia and Turkey were younger ones were more willing to learn from introduced to the EU Democratic Values, the older ones' outcomes. learned about human and children rights, investigated digital rights and internet safety The students used to work in groups or teams and raised awareness on how new (face to face or in Zoom \u201cbreakout\u201d rooms) technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and and the teachers collaborated continuously in Machine Learning could enhance or threaten order to adapt their activities to their student\u2019s those rights. They exchanged thoughts and needs and to the issues created by the Covid- ideas, collaborated on many activities and 19 pandemic, by creating educational reflected on the future of democratic values in repositories, supporting each other and the era of Artificial Intelligence. proposing sources of professional development. Implementation This project took place during the school year Throughout the schools\u2019 closure due to the 2020-2021 by schools from Greece, Croatia Covid-19 pandemic, the flipped classroom and Turkey. methodology was used combining synchronous and asynchronous teaching with the help of Its implementation was quite demanding and Web.2 tools and the eTwinning platform. challenging, not only regarding the educational objectives (human rights\/values in the context The project was integrated into the schools\u2019 of new technologies) and the appropriate national curricula, the promotion of 21st- adaptation of all the activities to the students\u2019 century skills development, the European age (8 to 13 years old) but also regarding the Centre for Political Strategy (top trends diversity of the teachers\u2019 expertise (expert and transforming education), the guidelines of the novice in eTwinning projects, class teachers, European Digital Capacities Framework for ICT and computer science teachers). The Citizens, the EU guidelines on ethics in Covid-19 pandemic crisis and the schools\u2019 Artificial intelligence, the Berlin Declaration on closure, where teaching was undertaken Digital Society and Value-Based Digital remotely on digital platforms, was one more Government challenge we had to face during this project. Despite those difficulties, a core group of Educational objectives schools and teachers from Greece and Croatia The main goals of the project were to raise actively collaborated throughout the whole students\u2019 awareness of the basic human and project to create and implement a plethora of democratic values both in the real and digital creative and innovative activities. world, to make them realize that those values As one of the founders of the project, I\u2019m should not be taken for granted and to extremely grateful to my co-founder Iva promote critical thinking on the use of Naranda from Croatia for her outstanding technology.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The Covid-19 pandemic and the sudden shift created WordArt images from those answers away from the classroom to distance e- to visualize democratic values. learning was a unique opportunity to explore the need for human values in the digital world. Younger students participated using their During the project, the students developed mother tongue and were involved in playful pedagogical innovation and creativity as they unplugged activities (Human Rights, ME and were involved in discovery, active, A.I-part1) in order to develop their skills of collaborative, experiential, cooperative and negotiation and conclude on a common system cross-curricular activities. Most specifically, value for all of them. the project\u2019s goals were to make the students have a basic knowledge and understanding All partners\u2019 schools were involved in the about the campaign \u201cRare Disease Day 2021\u201d in order to a) democracy and democratic European raise awareness of students with rare Values: Europe and European Union, diseases. A call to all eTwinning teachers was Human\/children rights, inclusion, tolerance, made through an ETwinning Live Event and a justice, solidarity, and non-discrimination collaborative Padlet was created with schools b) digital world: Digital Rights, Internet Safety and organisations to support the campaign. c) new technologies: understand the basics of The 5th-grade students from the 2nd P.S of Artificial Intelligence (AI), recognize AI-driven Nea Erythraia, Greece, used the micro:bit applications in our everyday life, create board to code a wearable device that would Machine Learning models, be aware of the help a child with a rare disease communicate ethical and Biases problems raised by those with his classmates whenever he felt lonely or new technologies upset. This real-world solution proposal was d) democratic values in the era of Artificial awarded as one of the best students' creations Intelligence: how technology can enhance or from the Bravo Schools 2021 Sustainability frighten democratic values, use the technology Competition regarding SDG goal 3, Good for good, be aware of deep fake news, develop critical thinking skills in order to get the best use out of digital technologies. Activities All those activities were implemented face to face or\/and online. The web2.0 tools used (Answergarden,Google forms, Padlet, online games and quizzes, Mural, Whiteboard.fi) and the online platforms (micro:bit simulator and classroom, eTwinning forums, Webex, e-class) made it possible. Democracy and democratic European values Students got acquainted with the EU and the democratic European values through playful activities from the European Learning Corner website: Europe quiz-games, Europe\u2019s shared values online game. They had the opportunity to choose their preferred language (among the 24 EU listed languages) and began to realize the diversity of the EU. They shared their thoughts with the Answergarden feedback tool (What Does Democracy Mean to me?) and","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Health and Wellbeing. The younger students of Some of the students\u2019 outcomes, like the the 4th P.S of Pefkis also coded using poster from the 8th P.S of Nea Filadelfeia, was ScratchJR \\\"The Given Tree\\\" animation about translated in Greek, Croatian and Turkish by Inequality, Equality, Equity and Justice. the students of the partner schools and used as a teaching resource. \u03a4he digital world During the whole project, personal data and Furthermore, the students of the 8th P.Sof internet safety issues were deeply taken into Nea Filadelfeia, with the activity \u201cSay NO to account. In fact, distance teaching (live bullying, say YES to respect\\\" had been sessions, students\u2019 online accounts, awarded the 2nd prize at the Hellenic \\\"Say NO collaboration using digital platforms and to bullying\\\" competition 2021, organised by Web2.0 tools) gave us the opportunity to the British Council and the International implement experimental learning where Olympic Truce centre. students \u201clearned by doing\u201d the basics and more complicated internet security issues. The new technologies: All schools also participated in Safer Internet In different parts of the project, the students Day 2021. Students used avatar pictures and were introduced to new technologies like surnames for the digital world and learned Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. All how to communicate with respect. Students students took part in the Hour of Code 2021 participated and exchanged ideas and with playful activities like the \u201cAI 4 oceans\u201d, thoughts in the eTwinning forums: \u201cWhat does \u201cYou Sketch-the AI Draws\u201d and \u201cDream Like a your app know about you?\u201d and \u201cCOVID-19 as Machine\u201d. a crisis for digital rights\u201c. The results of these activities were presented for brainstorming to Furthermore, the students of the 2nd P.Sof the younger students. Nea Erythraia and Croatia created and trained different Machine Learning Models using Google Teachable Machine and Pictoblox. Younger students were introduced to Machine Learning using \u201cAI made Simple\u201d from Edsquare and \u201cArtificial Intelligence & Me\u201d books. The students of Greece (2nd P.S of Nea Erythraia) and Croatia used the \u201cMy Heritage - Deep Nostalgia\u201d AI tool to bring to life old paintings. In memory of the 200 years of","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Greek Independence 1821-2021, the Greek Some created materials, like the Mural-wall students chose paintings of the Greek heroes about the wrong use of AI-driven applications of the Greek Revolution and the Croatian created by the 2nd P.S of Nea Erythraia, was student\u2019s paintings from Petar Zrinski and Fran translated in English and Croatian so as to be Krsto Frankopan to celebrate the 350th able to be used by the other schools in the anniversary of their death. project. Students also used known AI-driven Older students collaborated on a Google Slide applications and tools like FaceApp, Wombo, Book to create a shared presentation about Vocode and Tidio to experiment with and Human Rights, Digital Rights and for each reflect on this amazing technology. right, give an example of an AI-driven application that could enhance or threaten The videos and photos of the older students\u2019 these rights. Younger students from Greece outcomes were shown to younger students in and Croatia reflected on human values order to start a discussion about fake and through the unplugged activity \u201cHuman deep fake news. Rights, ME and A.I-part2\u201d where they brainstormed and decided whether or not The democratic values in the era of some human values could be taught to a Artificial Intelligence machine. The last and most demanding part of the project was dedicated to investigating how AI- driven technology can perpetuate or amplify existing human biases and\/or prejudices, how deep fake news can affect our decisions and finally if basic human democratic rights can be jeopardised by the wrong use of A.I. Each school chose different approaches adapted to students\u2019 prior activity and age. Students were actively engaged through brainstorming, questionnaires, mind maps, quizzes and unplugged activities. Through this process, they applied their freedom of expression, developed their argumentation skills and critical thinking on deep fakes, misinformation and biases.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter During our last live events, younger students techniques in order to learn about EU, EU played a Kahoot quiz game while older values, democratic\/human\/children\/digital students participated in collaborative activities rights, to acquire digital skills and familiarize also based on the \u201cHuman Rights, ME and A.I- themselves with new technologies, such as part2\u201d activity; they completed a survey on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and human values they value the most, compared coding. They were sensitized to ethical, moral their results with the results of the younger dilemmas and stereotypes that AI-driven ones and shared their thoughts about which applications raise in our everyday life and they human values can be taught to a machine with developed structured and critical thinking on Artificial Intelligence. how to process digital information, deep-fake news and online privacy. Project evaluation During the whole project, students were asked Similarly, the benefits for the teachers were to share their thoughts and ideas on different very important because the project subjects, from democracy to Artificial contributed to their professional development, Intelligence, through games, quiz-games, the exchange of good practices, the questionnaires, forums and Web2.0 development of their eTwinning culture and collaborative boards. This formative their content at the learning results of assessment was a valuable tool to evaluate students and teachers. Last but not least, the the level of students\u2019 understanding in order to benefits for the wider school community; the readjust accordingly the activities. project involved teachers of other specialities (such as English language and class teachers) At the end of the project, both students and who taught a lot about eTwinning. teachers completed questionnaires prepared using Google Forms in order to gauge the Georgia Lascaris, Computer Science teacher, Greek overall impact of the project. The Ministry of Education. Graduated: Athens, University of questionnaires\u2019 feedback was quite positive: Economics and Business, Department of Informatics- students and teachers had acquired new School of Information, Sciences&Technologies. Active in knowledge and skills, enjoyed most of the eTwinning since 2014. Awarded eTwinner, Eu code activities and were willing to participate in Leading Teacher 2020-2021, Scientix Ambassador 2020- similar projects next year. 2021, Stempedia certified A.I educator, Wakelet Ambassador, QualityNetFoundation SDG Ambassador Conclusion 2018-2021. The project had a positive impact on all the participants. The students had the opportunity Stavroula Skiada, Computer Science teacher, Greek to collaborate through alternative learning Ministry of Education. Graduated: Athens, University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics- School of Information, Sciences & Technologies. Active in eTwinning since 2018. Awarded eTwinner, Scientix Ambassador 2020-2021, TeachSDGs ambassador 2020- 2021, QualityNetFoundation SDG Ambassador 2018-2021.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Autumn Steam materials from nature. In the field of Aesthetics and Creativity, children drew, Activities - eTwinning colored, painted, sang. At the Psycho-Motric Domain, the children went to nature, gathered Project materials for activities. At the Domain of Man and Society, the children made works with by Ruxandra natural materials, recyclable materials, made lego, puzzles, various constructions from Florentina Badescu pieces. eTwinning projects have pedagogical value, In eTwinning projects, the collaboration materialized mainly by innovating teaching between teachers is very important. practices, encouraging teamwork and peer Therefore, in our project, collaboration was learning, using new information and one of the main features. The project involved communication technologies (ICT) to support teamwork, mutual support, joint effort to solve the teaching process, stimulating students' tasks and to stimulate motivation, participation in teaching-learning-assessment involvement and performance. The project activities, diversification of learning activities activity took place in cooperation and not in by capitalizing on projects in the formal parallel. The work tasks were clearly divided curriculum. between the partners, depending on their experience and the age of the students. A first The \\\"Autumn Steam Activities\\\" project took place in the autumn season. Parents and children were informed about the project work process, objectives and expected results. The parents agreed to support their children in this project. The objectives of the project were: developing imagination, creativity and increasing self-confidence; expressing feelings and emotions through art, drawing, painting, improving memory and concentration. Within the project, we used a variety of methods, techniques and support materials and aimed to make learning relevant and attractive. The project developed skills through drawing, painting, collages, experiments, mathematical activities, autumn poems, coding activities, practical activities, fun family activities, the beauties of nature. The project activities were easily integrated into the daily activities, according to the Curriculum. At the Language and Communication Field, we had discussions about all the activities, they said poems about autumn, they learned simple words in English. In the field of Science, we carried out various research activities in nature, experiments, walks in nature, mathematical activities with","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter level of collaboration was the exchange of materialized especially through the innovation information, posting photos and presentations of teaching practices, the encouragement of of the school and the location. I made the Map individual work, but also of teamwork; the use of the project partners. I created for a good of new information and communication communication the facebook page, the technologies (ICT) to support the teaching Instagram page, the WhatsApp group, the process. Project Blogger page. The partners provided feedback, through comments and reactions to posts, forum discussions, chat sessions. We also organized video conferences and contests, had online meetings where we discussed the project, online meetings with our students to get to know us better with students from the project partner countries and to share impressions and experiences. Each partner country registered messages for the European Day of Languages, we made various common products: Acrostic Poems, Our Calendar 2021 (e-book and video), e-book Autumn in my country, Virtual Exhibition, Linoit Table. The happiest moment was when I was awarded the Quality Certificate for the \\\"Autumn STEAM activities\\\" project. Ruxandra Florentina Badescu is a preschool teacher at Grigore Mihaescu Vl\u0103de\u0219ti Secondary School, in Romania. She registered on the eTwinning platform on February 17, 2020. She really enjoys working on eTwinning projects. My project was considered useful by my students, their families. I also received positive feedback from my school teachers. They considered that my project can be a source of activities or topics that can be used in the school curriculum or in extracurricular activities and through new activities. My opinion is that this project has demonstrated its pedagogical value,","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The Adventures of the activities in national teams. The Greek team wrote questions on a padlet and the Olympic Mascoteers other two teams provided them with the answers. by Sophia Kouzouli After having become aware of the history and \u201cThe Adventures of Olympic Mascoteers\u201d is a the celebrations of the Olympic Games, the collaborative project coordinated by Valentyna students presented their favourite national Gatalska, Sophia Kouzouli and Nesli \u00d6zcan, Olympic athletes. They found information focusing on the Olympic Games, the Olympic about them and uploaded the texts they spirit, and the healthy and balanced way of created on the TwinBoard, with an life. Students from Ukraine, Turkey and accompanying photo of the athlete. Greece participated in collaborative national and transnational activities in order to learn more about the Olympic Games in the Ancient and Modern times, national and international Olympic Athletes, and the Olympic Values. They created mascots embodying the sports spirit and identifying core skills. The students of the 1st Primary School of Pyrgos collaborated with the students of the Kyiv Gymnasium Troyeschyna in Kiev, Ukraine, and their peers from the Ahmet Mete I\u015f\u0131kara \u0130lkokulu in Akdeniz, Turkey and, with the pedagogical integration of ICT, they participated, designed and reflected on learning activities that required collaboration, skilled communication and knowledge construction in order to help to build more harmonious, creative and healthy societies. The getting to know each other activities in the beginning of the project gave the opportunity to the partners to introduce their teams, their schools, cities and countries, and connect with each other. They, then, shared their stories on how they keep fit and conducted a survey on the same topic. Subsequently, the participating countries had the opportunity to discuss about the Ancient and Modern Olympic Games. First the Ukrainian students asked their Greek partners questions about the Ancient Olympic Games on a padlet. The Greek team answered the questions and prepared a quiz for all the partners to do. Moving on to the Modern Olympic Games, they continued implementing","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter excellence and balance in life between body, will and mind. They used the forum to discuss how valuable these principles are and voted for the one they cherish the most: Next, the participating students discussed the The intercultural dialogue about the Olympic three essential values of the Olympic spirit, Values and their favourite Olympic athletes excellence, respect and friendship, which in who won gold, silver or bronze medals, or education belong in five areas of focus: joy of participated in the Olympics was followed by a effort, fair play, respect for others, pursuit of discussion on the five most important qualities which can help an athlete become a winner. Students used the forum and Tricider to support their arguments and decide on the personal qualities athletes develop and which empower them to compete successfully. After they had become more familiar with Ancient and Modern Olympic Games, the sports included and information about athletes from the participating countries that have competed and have won medals in the OG, learners wrote acrostic poems in a padlet about their favourite sports and made drawings inspired by them. The collection of their poems and their drawings became an ebook. They then were asked to design a mascot, to name it and describe what sport it represents, what qualities are symbolized and why they took the decision to make it. They uploaded the texts on the Twinboard and created a mascoteer exhibition.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter other two participating countries. The students were then asked to choose among the three logos from the corresponding national teams with the highest scores and vote for the most effective. They continued with the collaborative work on the Olympic Games. They formed eight mixed transnational groups and collected general information, information about the emblems, the mascots, the medals, the torch relay, the Olympic Village, the Victory ceremony and the Olympic Truce as well as the Covid restrictions of the OG in Tokyo in order to construct their own understanding of the organization and procedures of the Olympic Games. They communicated in the forum of every team and moderated their work. The output of their collaboration was collected in an ebook about the Olympic Games. They also took part in the Orizuru project organized by the committee of the Olympic Games of the Tokyo 2020 OG in cooperation with the city of Hiroshima. They made paper cranes and wrote haiku poems to promote peace. They communicated their work in an ebook. Having experienced the decision making The project was finalized and completed with process about creating a mascot, students the evaluation stage. Teachers and students participated in a logo contest. On a national evaluated the project answering surveys about level, individually and in teams, they created their opinion on the organization, the tasks five logos which were put on a vote by the","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter and the outcome of the project. They all Haiku poems written on Orizuru paper cranes shared their positive feedback and wrote about their favourite activities on the Forum. Peace seems like freedom You can do everything The adventures of the Olympic Mascoteers With love, respect and hugs encouraged our learners to become part of a Maria wider community in the difficult times of the lockdown due to Covid 19 and helped them Play with peace and love develop 21st century skills. Adopting the Living, laughing, playing and vision of the OECD Learning Framework 2030 Helping of others (OECD, 2018), the project focused on critical Dennis thinking as the learners were engaged in activities that required purposeful thought, Peace means dignity collaboration and teamwork and Happiness and no sadness communication. It embraced our learners\u2019 That is important inner strengths and creativity (Vygotski, 2004) Anastasia to help shape a shared future built on the well-being of individuals, communities and the Peace is a word which planet. \u0399s for a better future \u0391ll we need is peace The following haiku poems were written by the Vassiliki 6th grade Greek students of the 1st Primary School of Pyrgos. Their poems are included Peace is love for all together with the poems written by the Wars stop children play in parks students of the Kyiv gymnasium Troyeschyna Let's all be happy! in Kiev, Ukraine, and their peers from the Harry Ahmet Mete I\u015f\u0131kara \u0130lkokulu in Akdeniz, Turkey in the \\\"Peace orizuru and haiku in the The word peace means eTwinning project 'The Adventures of Olympic Sharing, loving, happiness Mascoteers'\\\" ebook they made for the not bullying others eTwinning project \u201cThe Adventures of Olympic Katerina Mascoteers\u201d with the coordination of Valentyna Gatalska and Nesli \u00d6zcan. A peaceful evening Sparrows singing together The poems were written to accompany the With pretty feathers paper cranes they made for the Peace Orizuru Christine project to celebrate the Olympic Truce, ekecheiria in Greek, which is based on the ancient Greek tradition where all conflicts ceased during the period of the truce. Peace is beautiful Sharing, helping, loving and Thinking of others Nektaria With Peace everything Will change for the better for The world we live in Panagiota","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Beauty under the sea Love and help people Swimming around the coral Try your best and don't give up With many colours We deserve freedom Panagiotis A Vassiliki L Freedom, love, respect Peace is very much Serenity, calm, friendship Beautiful because it means This is the real peace Quietness and blessing Marisia Konstantina Our indifference is Love, happiness, smile The damage of our planet Respect, freedom and friendship Respect our planet I think this is peace Joanna Theodora Violence is bad References: Peace is very good for us OECD (2018). The future of education and This is the real peace skills. Education 2030, OECD. Retrieved on Eleni Z July 26th, 2021 at https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/education\/2030\/E2030 Peace is good for all %20Position%20Paper%20(05.04.2018).pdf Love and help each other much Vygotsky, L.S. (2004), \\\"Imagination and And it will worth it creativity in childhood\\\", Journal of Russian & Giorgia East European Psychology, Vol. 42\/1, pp. 7- 97, Retrieved on July 20th, 2021 at You can take a walk http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/10610405.2004.11 You can play with your friends free 059210. You can read a book Penny Sophia Kouzouli is an English Teacher and an eTwinning Ambassador. She has coordinated a number of To find inner peace multilateral European school projects, she has a blog and Be still the mind and let go she moderates the Global Schools eTwinning Group. Live in the present Panagiotis D I'm friendship and love I'm the opposite of war What am I...I'm peace Panagiotis N An old silent pond A frog jumps into the pond Splash! Silence again Panagiotis Di If people stop wars In the world there will be peace Happy we will be! Eleni M","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The Water Footprint materials. All activities were prepared in a way to be realised either in school or online, through the depending on the situation with pandemic. Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary approach We have adopted an interdisciplinary approach Approach and in our project. In this way, we discussed climate change and the protection of water International resources in different lessons with our students. The interdisciplinary approach in our Collaboration project enabled our students to produce creative solutions for the protection of the by Iva Naranda and World's water resources. We discussed with our students about climate change and water Bilge Varel footprint in science lesson. We introduced the web 2.0 tools we use during our project Introduction activities in ICT lessons. Students learned In this paper we will describe the main ideas about internet safety, searching the Internet and activities from the eTwinning project My and copyright. One of the creative activities Water Footprint. Project included 23 teachers was creating a project logo and in this activity and around 340 students from 13 countries. we collaborated with Art teacher. We wrote The project founders are Bilge Varel from our collaborative story on the conservation of Turkey and Iva Naran\u0111a from Croatia. The water resources in English lesson and drew the project My Water Footprint was registered in illustrations for our storybook in art lesson and August 2020 and lasted the whole school year within the extracurricular activities. The 2020\/2021. The main objectives of the interdisciplinary approach we adopted in our eTwinning project My Water Footprint were to project helped our students gain 21st century raise student\u2019s awareness of the water skills such as communication, collaboration, footprint, the necessity of protection the use of technology, problem solving, world\u2019s water resources and to draw attention productivity and responsibility. to climate change. In addition, development of English language skills, positive and efficient use of technology were provided. Through collaborative activities between partners from different countries students learned what a water footprint is, the types of water footprint, how the depletion of water resources in the world is impacting climate change and what they can do to decrease their personal water footprint and protect world\u2019s water resources. We reached student\u2019s families and included them to the water saving activity in households. In order to strengthen cooperation, students wrote a story about water footprint, prepared shared presentations, posters, videos and other","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Project activities were aligned to the cross- We created a collaborative presentation curricular topics Sustainable Development and \u201cWetlands in our countries\u201d and a common Use of ICT. We tried to develop key quiz with questions based on this competencies of our students, especially presentation. To create a quiz \u201cWetlands in digital competence and communication in our countries\u201d we used the tool Quizizz. During English language. Students developed these March we were focused on the World Water competencies by participating in TwinSpace Day. We prepared a few collaborative and by working on collaborative tasks. activities. Students created slogans and collaborated on Canva poster and Students collaboration and active AnswerGarden \u201eWhat does water mean to participation in Twinspace you?\u201c. To celebrate the Earth Day the project Collaboration is evident in all project activities, team prepared a video with students but in this article we will focus on students messages created with ChatterPix. Firstly, team work and active participation in students created a picture about Earth Day, it TwinSpace forum discussions. To achieve could have been a drawing or digital image. cooperation and work collaboratively with Then students uploaded this picture to the peers from different countries, students used ChatterPix application and recorded their audio various online tools (Tricider, Canva, Google message over this image. Each student sayed Docs, Google Slides, AnswerGarden). The \\\"Earth Day every day\\\". Finally, we combined planning of all collaborative activities was these ChatterPix videos to create a common achieved with the help of tables in which video. individual teams were entered. Each school could choose which part of the task to work on One of the most demanding and creative and the date of implementation. For successful activity was the collaborative story writing. realisation, it was extremely important to This activity lasted a few months. Students respect the agreed deadlines, so that the next worked on the text and illustrations. By school can continue working on a joint collaborative story writing and creating document. During the project students worked illustrations for our story students expressed in international teams. At the beginning of the their creativity and improved teamwork skills. project we organised a project logo contest. We organised an online contest for the title of Each school prepared their proposals for our story, each school proposed one title and project logo and the online voting with Tricider we choose the final title. For this purpose we was organised. Furthermore, we prepared used TwinSpace poll. The final product is a collaborative activities on the occasion of story Water Has Power!. At the end of the important dates: World Wetlands Day in project we printed our story and we handed it February, World Water Day in March and Earth over to the school library. In that way the Day in April. story Water Has Power! is available for other students and teachers and can be used to some presentation purposes in the future.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Some partners prepared various online games Within the project we organised two online and quizzes about water footprint and meetings for students and that was very well Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), accepted by them. The first online meeting especially goal 6 clean water and sanitation, was held in March and it was realised via Cisco and students from all partners schools played Webex. In this meeting participated schools those games shared via TwinSpace. Learning from Greece, Croatia and Turkey. Students through playing the games is a good way to played two Kahoot quizzes: \u201cThe Water Cycle\u201d increase students motivation and interest for created by Ioannis Makris and \u201cThe Water participating in project and lessons in general. Footprint\u201d created by Iva Naran\u0111a. Students actively participated in TwinSpace, The second online meeting was held in June they uploaded own materials, worked on via Zoom. In this meeting participated schools forum, watched posts on the Project Journal from Poland, Greece and Turkey. Students and wrote comments or liked posts. By discussed about their mutual work and shared participating in forum discussions students the experience they gained during the project. developed many skills, use of technology for Collaborative online work included Mentimeter communication, English language skills, activity and AnswerGarden with the topics netiquette and respect for others opinions. about the water (what does water mean to you and good habits to reduce water Also, to be able to discuss about the forum consumption). topic, they need to investigate and get familiar with the topic. Students participated in the Once again we can confirm that the online Twinspace forum discussion \u201cSmall actions, meetings with peers from other countries big water solutions\u201d and they wrote the proved itself as a very interesting and actions that they take or propose in order to important part of eTwinning projects. reduce water's scarcity. We got 126 replies on this forum thread. This discussion was started Let's act now and reduce our water by our partners from Greece. footprint In order to reach the students' families and Furthermore, at the end of the project involve them in water saving, we designed an students participated in a forum discussion activity lasting 4 weeks. Worksheets for about the evaluation results, started by students were prepared in English, Turkish, founders of the project. Greek, Croatian and Polish version. During three weeks students were actively involved in Students watched a presentation with the the saving the water in their everyday life. For evaluation questionnaire results and wrote comments on forum. We got 71 students' replies from different countries, with extremely positive reactions what makes us happy and satisfied. One more collaborative activity was celebrating the eTwinning Day. For this occasion project team created a video. Each school prepared his own part in which student say \u201cHappy eTwinning Day\u201d in mother tongue and in English. Also, students used a paper with printed eTwinning logo and they gave it to each other.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter each week students prepared some proposals valuable experience for students from Croatia, how to save water, by reducing direct Turkey, Greece and Poland. consumption, but also by reducing indirect consumption. Students wrote ideas and results Conclusion in the table (printed or digital). On fourth The eTwinning project My Water Footprint week students reflected and discussed with brought together an excellent international the class and teacher. On the Computer team which consists of the experienced Science lessons 7th graders worked in MS eTwinners and the beginners. All together we Excel to analyze data and create charts with achieved a wonderful and fruitful collaboration, the results of activity. Each class created a to the benefit of our students, schools and final document with overview of the students local community. Interdisciplinary approach activities (what did the most students, but helped to make the project activities more also with highlighted new ideas). interesting to students. Based on the evaluation results, we can conclude that by Finally, we created a collaborative participating in this project students and their presentation with overview of all activities. In families made some behavior change in daily the activity Let's act now and reduce our water water consumption.We can hope they will footprint participated schools from Turkey, keep the habits on water saving and rational Croatia, Italy, Romania, Poland, Greece, water consumption. Furthermore, we raised Spain, Lithuania and Portugal. As a part of awareness of our students about the indirect dissemination, 2nd Primary School \u010cakovec water consumption, and that was something from Croatia participated in the STEM students heard for the first time during this Discovery Campaign 2021 with the activity project. \u201eLet's Act Now & Reduce Our Water Footprint!\u201c, in category Sustainability. At the end, we are especially proud that the European Commission recognized our project Other activities as an example for green education project and Except of described activities, there were also four partners were invited to the group of some other activities which we want to teachers to work in the Education for Climate mention shortly. Introduction of partners and Coalition. The Coalition is a flagship initiative schools, marking our locations on a Google of the European Education Area, which aims to Map, creating eSafety rules, pre-survey and support a fair, green and digital societal final survey for students, decorating project transition for all. boards in our schools or in a digital form, dissemination activities on the school level, In Greece our partners were awarded on the national and international level. Bravo Schools competition. The project won an award as one of the best innovative Extra activities educational practice for the Global Goal 6 at During the project some partners proposed the Hellenic Bravo Schools competition 2021 additional activities which were not in our (8th Primary school of Nea Filadelfeia). main project plan and that enriched our project. We would like to thank to all partners To find out more about the eTwinning project for those interesting ideas. All those extra My Water Footprint, please visit the public part activities can be a good base for some future of the TwinSpace, project web page created project activities. with Weebly and project Facebook page. Also, there is a project page on the Croatian, on the One of those ideas was participation in the 2nd Primary School \u010cakovec school website. Climate Changemakers campaign from World's Largest Lesson during which students created TwinSpace: posters with their own messages. Participating https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/120761\/home in such international campaign was a new and"]
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