Visibility of eTwinning Projects Newsletter 11

["Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Project page: Learn and Pay It https:\/\/mywaterfootprintetwinning.weebly.co m\/ Forward Facebook page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mywaterfootprinte by Marika Emese twinning C\u00eempean Iva Naran\u0111a has been an IT teacher at 2nd Primary School \u010cakove,Croatia since 2003. She has graduated #EcoHeritageMatters #GreenBehaviorCode Grammar School \u010cakovec, Faculty of Organization and #DigitalEUWellDo #BooksOfOurTimes Informatics and Faculty of Teacher Education, University #Eutourism of Zagreb.She has been active in eTwinning since 2012. Eco-Herit@ge Matters, our Erasmus+ KA229 Bilge Varel has been a Science teacher at Mustafa Kiri\u015f project (2019-1-PT01-KA229-060791_6) is a Secondary School Efeler in Ayd\u0131n, Turkey, since 2019. She continuation of a fabulous eTwinning journey graduated the Republic of Turkey, Konya Sel\u00e7uk (started in 2017), with an amazing team of University, Faculty of Education, Department of Science teachers: Marisa Rocha, Catherine Daems, Education. She has been active in eTwinning since 2014. Barbara Zadraveli, Marko Brajkovic, Heidi Giese and Tatiana Popa, as part of the Herit@ge Matters eTwinning project, awarded with the Yunus Emre Prize for Humanism and Intercultural Understanding (Prize sponsored by the eTwinning National Support Service of Turkey). A part of the team had the chance to continue collaborating and learning about the Global Goals, teaching our students about the importance of education for sustainable living. On this new trip, started in 2019, with Erasmus+, under the great coordination of Marisa Rocha (Portugal), teachers from Croatia (Mirko Andric), Greece (Barbara Zadraveli), Italy (Nicoletta Forestiere), and Romania (Emese C\u00eempean) and exceptional teams of students and teachers in each of our schools implement the sustainable development goals, create and envision the future together. Started as an Erasmus project, Eco-Herit@ge Matters is being conducted and lives as a true eTwinning project (we are waiting for the upcoming mobilities too, but until then, we collaborate and create, as this team has always did, on eTwinning). 2020-2021 has been a vivid year in the TwinSpace, students from all the six countries contributed and shared through the collaborative tools and through the eTwinning platform. We took up","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter common challenges (the Outdoor Classroom We treasure all the accomplishments from this Day, the Climate Action Project), we created year, but most of all, we treasure this anthems and collaborative movies, we acted partnership, the lessons we all learned and the as a team and empowered each other. Code bridges we are building together. Week Challenge, remote travelling, #EcoHeritageMatters! Coronacomics collaborative StoryJumper, ecology lessons, cultural exchanges - these Green Behavior Code is another captivating are just a few of this year`s accomplishments. ecology project we are working on, it involves 7th grade students from our school and the topic is extremely important for them, because they can take care of nature and also, use the computer to play and create. This is an eTwinning Plus project, in collaboration with Imen Taktak (Tunisia), Mariapia Borghesan (Italy) and Roberto de la Iglesia Munoz (Spain). Students were working in mixed, transnational teams, in order to complete the aims of the project. Each team used Pixton and Scratch, for the team`s manifesto, the Green Behavior Code. There were online meetings, collaborative learning, content creation, peer to peer mentoring and lot of creativity. For a few months, we have been all working Students met online while working on creating a collaborative movie, Purgatory collaboratively, and also, at the end, they Airlines. Students have adapted and translated presented their products and voted for their the scripts, drew the characters, recorded the lines and worked on creating the video of the team. There has been a great team effort and a very good coordination of the activities, made by the Portuguese team. Here is a trailer of our movie: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/571864552 and this is the link to our TwinSpace: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/86914.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter favorite Green Behavior Code: disinformation). The activities were organized https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GAZta_G in Pixton classes, where students created F38c. It has been a great learning adventure, cartoons. They discovered how to spot fake a wonderful team and an excellent news and created materials on this topic. They coordination of our work - done by Imen met online, through BigBlueButton, worked in Taktak. It was rewarding to see how students groups and collaborated. They made learned from each other, how great a product Infographs and online exhibitions with their can become if they all contribute. They group works. The final product of our project learned about Internet Safety and #fakenews, is an ebook, designed by them in BookCreator. they peer mentored each other in the Scratch It was a great journey, rewarded with a prize Studios, they edited content, shared ideas and during 68th European Competition. made their voices heard, because it is important to have a #GreenBehaviorCode! #Digital EU \u2013 we`ll do! is the bridge that connects my school to \u201eAnne Frank\u201d Schule. It is our digital literacy project and another year of fruitful collaboration. 7th grade students from \u201ePetru Rare\u0219\u201d National (This is the link to our Twinspace: College were part of this journey along with https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/160324\/home their German friends, taking up different and here you can read our final product, our responsabilities while working in mixed teams ebook: (they researched, collaborated, created and https:\/\/read.bookcreator.com\/qlRtG2IQDNdSV learned together about online conduct and I7uWV2t010gznO2\/x2sBRfg4TqqG_XvQig2Xm Q). I am honored for working again with Heidi Giese and her students and I hope that our journey will continue, with another challenge, next year. #DigitalEUWellDo! Books of Our Times is the Romania \u2013 Moldova collaborative project we run each year. If last year we learned about democracy, this year`s topic was reading. Students from \u201eHeritage International School\u201d Chi\u0219in\u0103u and \u201ePetru Rare\u0219\u201d National College Beclean came up with a common reading list, read the","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter books, shared ideas and created products for EUtourism is my school`s Erasmus+ KA229 each one of the books. project (2019-1-ES01-KA229-064134_2). This project is the heritage left by our amazing The reading list consisted of the following: coordinator, Sara Martin. We have lost her, \u201eThe diary of a young girl\u201d, by Anne Frank; due to pandemics, and she is irreplaceable. \u201eZuleikha opens her eyes\u201d, by Guzel Yakhina, She found us, she believed in us and inspired \u201eA boy on the Wooden Box: How the the team, the way she did through her entire Impossible Became Possible... on Schindler`s teaching career with her students. We owe it List\u201d, by Leon Leyson; \u201eBetween shades of to her to continue inspiring others, because if gray\u201d, by Ruta Sepetys; \u201eA night divided\u201d, by there is something I have learned in eTwinning Jennifer A. Nielsen and \u201eWhite Bird\u201d, by R.J. and Erasmus is the fact that the secret Palacio. ingredient for progress is collaboration. The secret ingredient to any great collaboration is It has been an interesting approach to history, the great teachers, who never stop paying it to topics like family, friendship, love, survival forward. and also, a search for role models, a search for hope, especially these times, when we kind This is why, all our EUtourism activities try to of lost it, due to the pandemics that shaked focus on European heritage, on the wonders our lives. But students did a great work with that tourism can offer to locals and visitors, on the books, they collaborated on Flipgrid, collaboration with the aim of learning and StoryJumper, Padlet. It was a nice meeting developing language and vocabulary, with the with the books and with each other. We even aim of developing competences for our received a message from Ruta Sepetys students. We are six schools from Spain, Italy, (thanks to Twitter), so, it was fun and Croatia, Turkey and Romania and we are rewarding. learning together, in a safe online environment (the project`s TwinSpace), we are empowering our students to find their voice and express themselves, while learning English for tourism. It has been a tough beginning, with many obstacles and questions. We started to create our common project, Survival English Kit for Tourist Guides and Animators and we ended up designing survival kits for our project, for moving forward after the lost of someone we all loved and appreciated.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Link to our TwinSpace: eTwinning Projects, https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/93755\/home eTwinners and At the end, all that matters is what we leave behind. We have a legacy to fulfill, a journey Educational Software to complete and many students to inspire, because, in eTwinning and Erasmus, we teach by Carmen Sin and inspire each other, so that everyone pays it forward, so that learning never stops. Which are the pedagogical consequences of the educational software and its connection Therefore, my message to all eTwinners is with eTwinning projects? LEARN AND PAY IT FORWARD! This way, together, we contribute to learning and As almost everybody knows, there are many change. benefits of educational software: stimulates interest in the new, eliminates boredom; #eTwinning #eTwSchool stimulates the imagination; develops logical #EPAmbassadorSchools #ErasmusPlus thinking; allows simulation of hard-to-reach #learning #teaching #sharing #collaborating experiments; teaching efficiency is optimized, #epascnpr #epascnpr2021 #eTwinningcnpr training in the spirit of self-education; self- #erasmuscnpr paced learning; objective assessment of results and progress. Marika Emese C\u00eempean is an eTwinning ambassador, a Romanian language and literature teacher at Colegiul What is the connection between this soft and Na\u021bional \u201ePetru Rare\u0219\u201d in Beclean, and she blogs at online eTwinning projects? I strongly believe https:\/\/emesecimpean.blogspot.com\/. that these eTwinning projects can help our students very much and are a good source of educational software for teachers and should be used more consequently by us all. Thus, especially now when teaching online due to Covid-19 they are great helpers. Making other teachers, eTwinners or not, interested in our projects and their results and benefits is another target for us, already with some experience in this splendid world, with many benefits for all the \u201cplayers\u201d. It is as tasting something for the first time and once you have found out its flavours, you cannot get enough of it, passing from a project and a topic to another one and so on and so forth. Within my newest projects: \u201cGame Literacy in the World of Business\u201c, \u201cLegendary figures in the eyes of students\u201c, \u201cHand In Hand\u201d, \u201cAll Women Around the World, Unite!\u201d and other 2 I have encountered and used, shared, learned, experienced so many techniques that it has been an educational software, a very real one","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter both for me and my students, and I hope it The project about women deals with History, would help my colleagues, too. Geography, Languages as subjects, more teachers can be involved, students s well, For example, in the project \u201cGame Literacy in there are so many perspectives to understand the World of Business\u201d, learning with games in and analyze women. classes is key to lifetime best learning. We can say that games can be used in any classroom, across almost every learning area because educational games are a great tool for building foundation in all lessons even math and language skills that today's school curriculum requires. This method is used for creating innovative teaching approaches that are able to challenge youngsters. Up to now, as the need analysis of all Project partner countries' local context showed, the curricula give little space for teaching with games in classes: games are not used in well enough during education at schools, just as cross-sectional topic or offered as optional when teaching. The survey is distributed in all project partner schools showed less games used in classes during teaching topics, and great amount of time spent traditional teaching methods. They are very good methods we have been trying in this project and we are hoping that all our colleagues would find out more about them and use them with their students. \u201cLegendary figures in the eyes of students\u201c is about history full of successful, courageous, ingenious, and influential legendary figures who affected the young generations deeply. Their courage, wisdom, inventions and sacrifices contributed to shape the history of nations. Even today those people still inspire the societies and live among us with their ideas. We were activated by this idea and came together to carry out this project. We have used Kahoot, Google engine and its tools (https:\/\/forms.gle\/QToHKQKn54LGjNVd8) , made nice and unforgettable presentations and memories (https:\/\/create.kahoot.it\/share\/legendary- figures\/ac32f1b2-295d-4b62-b751- eebabe05826d) which can be used by both teachers of history in our schools and their students , or questionnaire about Internet and its safety and influence on teenagers (https:\/\/forms.gle\/HX4vGA2KjVyQgXYh7).","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Creative thinking is another topic and Facing the Pandemic - important issue in our students\u2019 development, eTwinning as a Bridge helping them think and act \u201coutside the box\u201d, 4 Collaboration & by thinking of opening a business, and there Continuity are collections of such ideas and portfolios the by Marisa Badini students from \u201cEntrepreneurial Skills for the world of Business\u201d, have prepared as fulfilling 22nd February 2020: in Piacenza, schools the project s tasks and objectives. For were suddenly closed, as our town is near instance, idioms help us express the exact Codogno and COVID-19 was expanding. We same idea in a more efficient and creative were in lockdown till the end of the school way. They help us enrich our language, they year. are nicer to listen to and make the Ottavo Circolo Piacenza is eTwinning school conversation less monotonous and funnier. since 2018 and one of the six European schools taking part in the Monitoring and Finally, I am grateful for having this Development Activity with eTwinning CSS opportunity of taking part and travelling in this 2019\/2021 world and eTwinning world, gaining so much experience, both me and my groups of eTwinning Schools: Inclusive and students. It is a challenge and a privilege to Innovative learning organisations Marisa have this unique chance, of using this Badini and Maria Cristina Cella educational software and improving our behaviour and lives. \u201cLet\u2019s travel\u201d again! (eTwinning-report- 2020_Schools_FULL.pdf see pages 49-54 Carmen Sin is an English teacher and the international for Ottavo Circolo Piacenza) projects coordinator and educational coordinator at Liceul Teoretic Alexandru Marghiloman in Buz\u0103u, Romania. She Our Experience Presentazione standard di has been a Scientix Ambassador since 2017 and a Teacher PowerPoint (etwinning.net) Champion for TSL Living Forest since 2017, and is the founding member of the NGO called EDU-CARE (2015). Our well-structured organization based on Shared Leadership (Principal, Staff, Commissions, different Team Work in a circular engagement, starting from the gathered needs) had unexpected PRIORITIES to face. First step: Digital and Inclusion Commissions were activated. Digital Commission: to train\/support teachers and create a common platform for distance Learning Inclusion Commission: to monitor and gather families\/ students\u2019 needs, in order to","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter offer equal opportunities to learn in distance, giving them tablets, WIFI connection and arranging personalized learning paths if necessary. Meanwhile: Grade teams and Subject teams met online and shared hypothesis for a Distance Learning Curriculum, adapting the Ministry instructions to our context. On the basis of the teachers\u2019 study, Principal and Staff with dedicated Committees, planned a common frame for the different grades. Families were deeply engaged and the representatives of each class kept contacts both with teachers and parents, supporting the organizational needs, for online sessions. Being an eTwinning school was a PLUS, as we were used to work in a digital context, in a collaborative net and Vertical Continuity. In fact we were running an eTwinning project and a training Course involving pupils and teachers of Primary and Pre Primary, so implementing the eTwinning school Mission, inside the Monitoring activity with the CSS. eTwinning and Erasmus were the \u201cfil rouge\u201d, connecting all the students to reach shared goals, that were redirected and adapted. The positive answer was so great that we created another common eTwinning project with Erasmus partners to celebrate Europe, but also to keep creativity, engagement and motivation alive. It was a successful choice, supported by parents, despite the terrible spreading of the pandemic in our town. We were invited by NA and INDIRE to present our good practice in a webinar. (SOS Didattica a distanza) https:\/\/etwinning.indire.it\/webinar\/esperienze- di-dad-con-etwinning-la-collaborazione- transnazionale-ai-tempi-del-covid\/. In the summer of 2020, Staff, Commissions and the COVID Committee planned the starting of the new school year, defining times for entrance\/exit, rules to follow, and possible Distance Learning, for quarantine and lockdown, that were monitored by team groups and families, at the beginning of the school year, with some adaptations.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter eTwinning was useful to implement collaboration and Shared Leadership also for new teachers. In October we had the great surprise of the full participation of every class\/section in the 3 Erasmus Days events, with plenty of different activities, respecting COVID rules https:\/\/spark.adobe.com\/page\/KaVJ0rwHuZK1 P\/. We went on with online PD, Erasmus steps and new educational challenges. We run an online training course focused on eTwinning, which was a great opportunity for new teachers to know the Community and explore the opportunities offered by the platform. To strengthen collaboration among the trainees and the effectiveness of the Professional Development we created an eTwinning Group just for our School, that offered teams and staff an online space where to share materials and ideas, keep connected, improve the expertise in the use of the platform. (\u201cOttavo Circolo as eTwinning School\u201d https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/groups\/group\/1642 26). As the Continuity between PrePrimary and Primary schools of our Institution is one of our priorities, we are used to set up teaching paths where 4th graders of Primary act as tutors of 5 years old Pre-Primary pupils. In school year 2020\/2021 the COVID-19 rules prevented face-to-face meetings between classes and we feared not to be able to carry out the continuity actions. Generally the childhood sections were welcomed by the Primary classes that guided them to know the new environment, carrying out activities aimed at integration and exchange, to strengthen the process of inclusion, underlying the Continuity itself. Pre-Primary and Primary teachers decided to make use of the opportunity to create projects also inside the school context, offered by eTwinning. While training and exchanging ideas in the school eTwinning Group, they discussed and planned interactive project paths, with the use of digital tools, in order to","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter allow virtual meetings, organize collaborative story of Eric Carle to become a path on activities, exchange information, feel tutors or friendship and sharing, despite the distancing. juniors...in short, an \\\"eTwinning at home\\\", but It offered children the experience of English absolutely essential to allow us to carry out language through ways to promote creativity the Continuity, supporting critical thinking, in playful situations so as to learn in a 'natural' role assumption, changes and resilience. and inductive way. Therefore projects focused on emotions, C\u2019\u00e8 posta per te (E-mails for you) sustainability, the values of friendship, https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/projects\/project\/300 computational thinking and STEAM therefore 582 came to life, with the English language as (5 years old pre Primary & 4thgraders section support and vehicle for communication in a A Primary - Don Minzoni School). The project European perspective and technology as was focused on collaborative storytelling, virtual context of meeting, collaboration, starting from some given elements and shared design. developed with the contribution of both section \/ class groups, using imagination and The Twin Space became the setting of the fantasy. The final product was a collaborative workshops, to develop transversal skills that e-book, followed by a theatre performance are the basis of democratic participation, staged by younger children and followed active learning, collaboration and creativity. online by the tutors. Here are the Continuity projects: TUTOR-JUNIOR VS PIXEL ART The Cycle of Change https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/projects\/proj https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/projects\/project\/293 ect\/292624 302. It involved 2 sections of 5-years old (5 years old section B Pre Primary Besurica & children (Besurica and Cervini pre Primary 4th graders section C don Minzoni). The main schools) & 4th graders section B Don Minzoni aim of this project was to initiate children to Primary school. The project was based on computational thinking, that is, to a new Growth and Change, in the two aspects approach to problems and their solution. In involving children, namely the emotions and fact, students with coding were guided to the expectations for the future school order. develop computational thinking and the ability The theme was trained and supported by the to solve more or less complex problems, not elder students that shared their experiences, only learning to program but also memories, dreams for future. programming to learn. La mia amica terra (My friend Earth) eTwinning: our bridge, our powerful motivator, https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/projects\/project\/294 opening to the world and innovating our day 385. (3, 4, 5 years old pupils \u201cCarella\u201d Pre by day teaching\/learning. Primary School). The Project was connected to the World Earth Day and it was focused on the Marisa Badini is a member of the Group for \u201ceTwinning importance of Planet Earth, on sustainability Schools Monitoring and Developing Activity\u201d with and protection of the environment, with the eTwinning CSS 2019\/2020, a member of the Erasmus+ final production and exchange of mutual gifts group and project counsellor, and a teacher of English and made by recycling or land art productions. now teacher trainer and CLIL expert at Ottavo Circolo Piacenza in Italy. The very hungry caterpillar, the very hungry friendship https:\/\/live.etwinning.net\/projects\/project\/298 203 (3, 4, 5 years old pupils \u201cOttolenghi\u201d Pre Primary School). The project started from the","Editor-in-chief: Daniela Bunea More information on eTwinning, the EU Editorial assistant: Cristina Nicol\u0103i\u021b\u0103 Programme for schools is available on the Designer: Anca Borza Internet: Photo editor: Raluca Filip https:\/\/www.etwinning.net\/en\/pub\/index.htm Proofreader: Helena Serdoura The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of these authors. All links were working on July 31st 2021. The pictures in this newsletter are original photos of contributors, photos used with permission or downloaded from the free website morguefile.com. The content of this newsletter is licensed under Creative Commons \u2013 Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives. Contact For more information, please contact Daniela Bunea Address: Colegiul National Gheorghe Lazar Sibiu, Str. 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