Visibility of eTwinning Projects Newsletter 11

["Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter ALTERNATIVE APPLICATIONS: Online Tools Used in SCRATCH eTwinning Projects VIRTUAL EXHIBTION: EMAZE by Simona Valentina These web tools have helped a lot in creating M\u00eenzicu different materials, which have allowed the transfer of information in an attractive, I have been a part of eTwinning since 2015, visually pleasing form, with interactivity and I can say that this is an innovation in between teachers and students and, at the connected education between countries and same time, with the possibility to receive more continents introducing new interactive and easily the information transmitted. These Web fabulous courses, activities and events. I have 2.0 tools are known to be free digital developed the next projects: I care!, Noah\u2019s programs used to create and share a variety ship, Durakta Matematik The magical world of of student-generated projects and activities. my paintbrush, I\u2019m you, You are me. They are interactive, easy-to-use, multifunctional digital platforms that eTwinning can be defined as a long term encourage students to collaborate, create and partnership where at least two pre-primary, share their performance, knowledge and primary or secondary schools from \u2013 usually \u2013 activities. They have been very helpful, I am at least two different European countries use extremely excited about their discovery and I ICT to carry out some form of pedagogically continue to discover and communicate relevant activity together. teaching-learning information through these digital web 2.0 tools. Marinela Pantea is a teacher at Liceul Jean Monnet in Bucharest, Romania. What interests her the most is innovation and creativity, which help attract the children\u2019s interest in what can help them progress. Physical movement and knowing the benefits of motor activities help them form their own selves. Her knowledge, curiosity, and interdisciplinarity can be satisfied with this platform of activities. She likes working with children, and her strong experience with students for 23 years makes her move forward, sharing such educational activities as the ones conducted on the eTwinning platform.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter This pandemic situation has modified many Quick is a video creator app that allows you to things in the learning-teaching projects for the create videos starting from you images that students but also for the teachers that had to are stored in your phone and you can create a start online teaching. The change was made video from them adding a starting text and, if very fast and we did not have much time to you want, you can add text in the video too. get use to it so we could have some This app is very useful because you can experience. It is normal for any human to be integrate other fragments from your videos, more comfy at home but sometimes some which is very unique and useful. - situations appeared that were very strange to https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1TcmqdyMf1Q all of us, like a little brother or sister of a mwCuVeh- student was playing in the same room and MFbXtHBBNgFcc2\/view?usp=sharing making unpleasant noises or the parents had to walk in the room. The online education WordCloud is a very useful app because it changed the education process very much but allows you to create a shape made of words being online has some very good sides too! chosen by you. You can change the word art For example in class the teacher could not format, size and colour. - bring the laptop every time to show the https:\/\/wordart.com\/szh7ru48yavi\/word-art student a quiz or something like that but in online, by pressing one button you can share the screen and the whole internet full of resources is yours, making the lessons much more interactive and fun for the students. With the online education the web 2.0 tools have evolved a lot by getting many upgrades and making the even more fun and easy to use for everyone! For example the Noah Ship project has started when the pandemic was just starting at it was not considerate to be a big thing but with the time we entered in complete online so the project was continued in online, the only online part before was only the meetings between the teachers. At first everyone thought it wasn\u2019t a good idea because the involved teachers could not talk to their classes but as the time passed by we realized it was a good thing, now we can create new online resources that will make our work much easier and make the students to be more attracted by the subjects and to consider them as well in their life. For the projects, activities and events I have used these web 2.0 tools: Voki is a video creator app that allows you to create your own character and to customize it giving it a text that the program will read with a robot voice or to record your own voice and the character will say it as well, but you can also record your voice and the character will say the same thing but with the robot voice. - https:\/\/l-www.voki.com","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Photo Collage is an app that allows you to Microsoft Teams is a meeting app that allows make collages in different shapes, models and you to create meetings that are of high colours from your saved images or from you quality. Microsoft Teams has the share screen camera roll. option that allows the host to share the screen https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16FOAjsiRXJ86 to all participants in the meeting; the breakout VGQdwLB1pnYyLUu5eh4V\/view?usp=sharing room option is one of the best because it allows you to create other parallel mini meetings that last between 5 minutes to 30 minutes and with that option you can split the participants in rooms. - https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft- teams\/group-chat-software The children from my class attended, with the other children involved in the Noah\u2019s Ship Project, an online feedback webinar on Zoom expressing their opinions about the methods to avoid such natural disasters. ChatterPix is an video creator that allows you to take a picture and animate it with your own voice, cutting a part of the picture to create a mouth for it and then record your own voice, and the picture will repeat what you said with your voice; after the video has been recorded, you can even put some stickers or hats. - https:\/\/youtu.be\/984gbi9Hwug","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Kahoot is an online tool that helps you to LearningApps is a tool that allows you to create very interactive quizzes, pools, create quizzes and games for free. question, true or false and many more. It is LearningApps has many templates that you helpful for testing. You can also create a can use and they are very useful; moreover, question and the students can say their they are very focused on target that will get personal opinion in one of the question type. - the attention of anyone how plays the game, https:\/\/create.kahoot.it\/share\/nbs- playing and learning at the same time - project\/16965813-67b0-4cfd-a435- https:\/\/learningapps.org\/watch?v=pcskcdhkk2 82df295b1778 1 It was a pleasure to take part in all of these projects because all of them are unique and they have led to the evolution of children. Padlet in an online tool that lets you create M\u00eenzicu Simona Valentina is a primary school teacher at boards where the participants can insert text, Liceul Teoretic \u0218erban Vod\u0103 in Sl\u0103nic, Prahova, Romania. links, videos and images; with it you can After graduating from the Pedagogical College, she create an open conversation on a theme and graduated Cycle 1-Undergraduate studies specializing in much more - Primary and Preschool Pedagogy. She has 24 years of https:\/\/padlet.com\/roberta_raul07\/lj6b6onkh3 experience in education and she is a teacher open to the tbywb new, with a strong desire to improve, the last program she graduated being a Master in \\\"Educational Counselling\\\". She is proud of her students, who always manage to meet the challenges, getting involved in activities in which they discover the best way to acquire knowledge that develops skills specific to the 21st century. Together they form a team and promote quality education.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Don't Be a Cyber As this is an Erasmus plus\/eTwinning project, there will be 6 LTT activities in our project and Bully, Be Aware! all of them will be realized in the form of exchange of short-term student groups. Each by Cristina Nicol\u0103i\u021b\u0103 LTT activity will be planned for different elements of the cyber bullying problem. LTT In a global world where communication activities will be carried out within the technologies are dominant, people access framework of \\\"definition of cyber bullying, information quickly and easily. Communication determination of cyber bullying behaviour technologies have become an indispensable patterns, e-security and cultural impact, mood part of life, as it provides easy access to of victims and bullies, healing victims and information and offers the opportunity to store bullies\\\". and share information. Along with the use of technology, the concept of conscious use of In the context of COVID-19 pandemic we technology has also emerged. Because the could not meet face-to-face, so all our uncontrolled use of communication activities were focused on the eTwinning technologies has caused malicious people to project. We started with the project logo act in an inappropriate way in virtual life. creating and voting and then we exchanged Christmas cards. The next activities were our The long term goal of our project is to train introductions: schools & towns, teachers and 21st century students with self-esteem and students. To respect the GDPR rules, our confidence. In this context, our primary goals students introduced themselves using avatars, are to prevent cyber bullying, to create a safe like Voki, Chatterpix or Bitmoji. school environment and to use technology consciously. In this project six schools from Italy, Turkey, Romania, Portugal, Poland and Bulgaria are acting together to raise awareness about cyber bullying and expand the limits of this awareness have come together. Another important activity was the celebration of Safer Internet Day 2021. The activities were very diverse: taking part in a National meeting about SAFER INTERNET DAY, taking a survey about the use of internet and organizing an event on eTwinning Live. We played the game","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter https:\/\/beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com\/, During the meeting the students had the but we also created our own games using web possibility to present themselves, get to know 2.0 tools like learningapps.org, word clouds more about the project and about its main using WordArt.com and WorditOut and topic - Cyberbullying. crosswords using crosswordlabs.com. *The students talked about differences Our students have had the opportunity to between bullying and cyberbullying, and about meet and discuss during an online netiquette - good manners in the Internet. videoconference, held on 10th May, the biggest event of the project. Every team had *The project's websites were also presented at its own presentation to prepare and share with the meeting, as well as the project TwinSpace. others. *They also presented the signs and symptoms of cyberbullying and the ways to prevent it from happening. You can find more about our project here: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/cyberbullying- erasmus-project\/home, https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/105725\/home or you can follow us on Facebook here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dont-be-Cyber- Bully-Be-Aware-102550961786701. Cristina Nicol\u0103i\u021b\u0103 is a Physics and IT teacher at \u201cGheorghe Magheru\u201d School in Caracal, Romania. She is a teacher trainer, eTwinning & Scientix ambassador, MIEE expert, Europe Code Week Leading teacher, and Erasmus+ projects coordinator.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter ArmonyLand: while trying to identify fake news and disinformation. This was done in order to Teaching Media improve their flexibility and adaptability and through a respectful communication and Literacy with Music collaboration, help students make informed decisions about which media they use and how through an to use them. Hence, competences which should be developed by the learners eTwinning Project themselves in a student-centred environment and are based on ongoing experience and by Angeliki reflection, which is something that cannot be taught (UNESCO, 2015). All in all, Kougiourouki competences that will empower them to \u201cparticipate in and contribute to global \u201cDo you know that your soul is knowledge societies\u201d (Council of Europe, n.d.). composed of harmony?\u201d (Leonardo da Vinci) It is meaningful to consider that media education should not only balance A land full of harmony, our ArmonyLand, \u201cempowerment\u201d and \u201cprotectionist\u201d representing the twin characters Armony and orientations but also encourage usage and Landy and a questioning quote by Leonardo da content creation skills (Wright et al., 2019). As Vinci \u201cDo you know that your soul is composed a 21st century approach to education, Media of harmony?\u201d were the leading forces for the Literacy provides the framework for the twin schools from Turkey and Greece to students to access, analyze, evaluate and develop an eTwinning project during the 2020- create messages in a variety of forms (Center 21. Deniz Tokatl\u0131o\u011flu and Angeliki for Media Literacy, n.d.) such as printed texts, Kougiourouki, with their students in 4th and podcast and video, music. 5th grades, joined their forces this difficult school year and followed Armony and Landy\u2019s Music was present in the project from the very steps in an effort to try a social experience to first day, when students introduced avoid misleading and disinformation with the themselves with a body percussion writing a help of music. code for this purpose, inviting their friends to perform it and participating with this activity in Fighting against disinformation and urging the European Hour of code. Coding was also people to thoroughly navigate through reliable present as it helped them not only use media content are amongst the strategies of blockly.games as means to compose music in the European Commission in an effort to a scratch platform, but also involve kids in create \u201can open, democratic and sustainable writing netiquette code thus familiarizing them society\u201d, one of the three important pillars for to means of effective communication. the digital transformation (European Commission, n.d.). Our main goal was based on this important pillar. It became a priority for partner teachers, to help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving competences","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Musical instruments, according to students\u2019 theirs and the other students\u2019 findings, reflect interests (piano, guitar, violin, drums, flute), on the liability of the information they went served as five international teams ID to guide through. the students to five missions in order to notice media content. The aim of these missions was to not only help students read and decode media\u2019s language, but also urge them to take part in the communication as an effective individual instead of being a passive recipient of media. Forum posts and interaction among the groups\u2019 members were a good starting point for students to talk about addiction to the web and new modern environments they navigate through. A collaborative mindmap was created during their first live meeting and while both schools were in a distance teaching and learning mode. As children are the most sensitive and at the Additionally, they worked through this topic in same time the most vulnerable group, it is breakout rooms during their second live important to help them cultivate the ability to meeting in which they also had the chance to distinguish the fact from fiction, to help them be familiar with each other and recall their understand how and why media reflects first introductions in the forum by playing a certain aspects of events and presentations, game that involved them sharing one lie and and through these they can be raised as two truths about themselves. conscious buyers who can look at the media critically starting from the primary school age. Oriented to this purpose, students followed their missions to watch kids\u2019 TV programs and news or surf the web, and through this observe the way ads are presented and the way information is distributed. After that, they had to talk about their experience and observations in the forum and by reading both","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter To have a better understanding of the media content we share and the kind of information we distribute, two characters were invented to accompany students with their adventures on a deeper dive into the eTwinning annual theme on Media Literacy and Disinformation. Armony and Landy, a boy and a girl who live in an ArmonyLand full of music, have fake profiles and share their lives in their Facebook accounts. The mission included creating a poster using either fake or real news and interacting in the forum with posts and comments to the partners\u2019 poster. These fake profiles helped teachers talk about our digital footprint, disinformation, democracy and human rights as well as culture. They invited students to share their content, this time clarifying the aforementioned words. Both partner teachers count a lot on Digital Literacy and focus on cultivating students\u2019 digital competences to make them think critically and interact responsibly. So, false content served as a chance to celebrate Safer Internet Day. One more collaborative mindmap with the question: \u201cHow do you recognize that something is true or false?\u201d helped students identify true from false and invited them to one more mission.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter In the meantime, Armony and Landy, the twin characters started their adventures. They became popular with their songs. So did the twin partners of the eTwinning project. The main purpose was to try and get in Armony and Landy\u2019s shoes and to become popular too. Students composed music using apps for mobile devices and tablets such as Garage Band, Groovepad, Music Creator or DPM. They uploaded their creations on a common Padlet voting for the best of the participant country and writing together the lyrics for a common song. This activity gave them also the chance to participate in the Creative Classroom Group\u2019s activity on the occasion of the SID celebration. To learn through playing the Greek school suggested to their Turkish partners the Interland game to \u201cBe internet awesome\u201d while the Turks invited their Greek friends to use specific and safe search engines for kids to find and post on a twinboard content related to their hobbies and interests. They also used several web2.0 tools to create games about school and cyber bullying inviting their friends to play them and post their score in a twinboard. Each country sang the lyrics according to the winner melody that the others created. This effort was backed up with the help of the music teacher. At that point Armony and Landy started facing popularity issues. It was again the time for the five international teams to handle these issues reflecting at the forum on specific troubles that suddenly occurred. For example, a lot of fans gathering out of their houses because they shared their address in their social media accounts.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Another example of trouble was the numerous The project development gave partner midnight phone calls which disrupted the students a lot of opportunities to meet online harmony by invading their personal lives; despite the schools\u2019 closure. Live events problems at school with their lessons, grades through zoom and Cisco Webex helped them and classmates; issues with their personal work in breakout rooms and interact with each data, shared on their social accounts, which other not only during the distance teaching led to fake bank accounts. Students, not only but also when the Greeks returned to school suggested solutions writing posts with opinions and Turks were still at home. They even and ideas at the forum and within their worked collaboratively to prepare a common international piano, flute, drums, guitar and presentation on the occasion of the violin teams but they went one step beyond; international Woman\u2019s Day, selecting six they wrote a common story regarding these famous women who contributed to science, popularity issues where they narrated what literature and art. The presentation was filled Armony and Landy finally did to avoid them. with music composed by a Greek girl. The partner students wanted to create a land Music was also present during the Woman\u2019s where both cyber and school bullying ceased Day celebration live event, when a Greek to exist. For this purpose, a land full of student played his guitar at school and a Harmony was created that aimed to preserve Turkish girl played her violin from home. their wellbeing and inner peace. To achieve that they wrote stories highlighting facts that could happen at school and during web browsing. To share their messages, they used podcasts about cyber and school bullying creating a radio playlist. Hence, they showed that we can use the web in a creative and innovative way.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter TwinSpace\u2019s tools like twinboard and forum, Council of Europe, n.d. Media Literacy. the project\u2019s home page, twinmails and a New Retrieved: 20\/07\/21 Year\u2019s Eve chat event, were important means https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/freedom- of communication for students, as they helped expression\/media- them communicate ideas and opinions to literacy#{%2290176705%22:[2]} agree upon their missions while becoming responsible digital citizens. European Commission, n.d. Shaping Europe\u2019s digital future. Retrieved: 20\/07\/2021 Surveys conducted at the beginning and at the https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/strategy\/priorities- end of the project showcase that although 2019-2024\/europe-fit-digital-age\/shaping- there was a lack of knowledge in students\u2019 europe-digital-future_en access to secure information sources at the beginning, with the ArmonyLand project UNESCO, 2015a. Rethinking Education. students managed to gain awareness about Towards a global common good? Retrieved: disinformation. They admitted that they now 20\/07\/2021, use secure sites to investigate whether the http:\/\/unesdoc.unesco.org\/images\/0023\/0023 information they encounter on the internet is 25\/232555e.pdf correct. Wright, C.L., Carpentier, F.D., Ey, L-A., Hall, The results also show that students are aware C., Hopper, K. M., Warburton, W., (2019). now about the age limits for membership in Popular Music Media Literacy: social networks and feel comfortable enough Recommendations for the Education to deal with a threatening message on the Curriculum. Policy Insights from the internet. Parents during their interviews stated Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Vol. 6(2) that although their children were aware of 186\u2013193 some things about the topic, with the ArmonyLand project they learned how to Angeliki Kougiourouki is a primary school teacher who also compare and detect true from false data, how has a degree in History. She holds a MEd in Visual Culture. to make a safe password and how to use She came across eTwinning in 2012 and has been different web 2.0 tools in a smart way. The coordinating eTwinning and Erasmus+ projects ever since. two partner teachers recognized the value of She became an eTwinning Ambassador in 2015, after the interdisciplinary process that was used which she organised many online and on-site seminars, through the ArmonyLand to create awareness ambassadors' webinars and Learning Events on Emotional and self-efficacy. The project helped students Intelligence, eTwinning projects for Young Learners, learn how to be smart consumers of Blended Learning and Remote Teaching. Angeliki is information by distinguishing fact from fiction. moderating the Creative Classroom eTwinning featured It empowered them to use the technology in a Group encouraging teachers to take part in creative responsible way by comparing, contrasting, activities, expert talks and events. analysing, categorising and evaluating what they read or listen. In other words, to efficiently face the challenging issues, such as cyberbullying, hate speech, privacy violations, digital distractions. Therefore, what the students gained through this project, is a sense of responsibility that will help them navigate both offline and online. References: Center for Media Literacy, n.d. Media literacy? A definition \u2026 and more. Retrieved: 20\/07\/21 https:\/\/www.medialit.org\/reading-room\/what- media-literacy-definitionand-more","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Collaborative This project involved 75 students aged Activities in the A.M.E between 10 and 16 years. The Romanian (Art&Math students were from the 7th, 9th, 10th grades. Exhibition) Project \u2013 At first the students studied works of art and Resources for Online discovered the elements of mathematics, Learning then, they became art creators themselves, by Mihaela G\u00ee\u021b using the learned mathematical properties. For these they used both paper and pencil, https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/74863\/home cardboard, collages, as well as various programs, IT tools. Teachers: Mihaela G\u00ee\u021b - \\\"Jean Monnet\u201d High School-Romania; Monika Schwarze - Pestalozzi In the following examples I will present some Gymnasium \u2013 Germany; Norma Lisa Neiman - significant collaboration activities carried out in IIS \\\"Tommaso Salvini\\\"-Italy; Renata Nowak - the AME project. I will insist on the way of Szko\u0142a Podstawowa nr 3 im. Miko\u0142aja collaboration between students of the same Kopernika -Poland; Antonela Mataji\u0107 - O\u0160 age and of different ages. Raji\u0107 - Croatia; Tatjana Vinukurova - Priv\u0101t\u0101 A very nice activity took place with the 10th vidusskola \\\"Klasika\\\"-Latvia. grade students from Romania and Italy. Against the background of creating spirals with Through this project we wanted to make a real equilateral triangles, students in one country and virtual-interactive exhibition of art and created problems of analytical geometry, mathematics, which would illustrate the interdependence between the two components of knowledge. Also, through collaboration, teachers and students made a collection of useful materials (e-books, GeoGebra-books, worksheets, video tutorials, new interactive work tools). These materials are available on the A.M.E website: https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/amexhibition\/ho me. The GeoGebra interactive space is here: https:\/\/www.geogebra.org\/u\/ame2018. All these files, e-books can be used as online resources as they were created or can be used as inspiration for creating for new ones.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter which were solved by their peers in the other seventh grade student. country. The task involved 3 important steps: https:\/\/issuu.com\/mihagit\/docs\/circles_and_p creating the drawing, which had to be olygons-converted__1_. configured as attractively as possible, so as to allow an accessible calculation, creating the Another example of vertical collaboration, this math problem (asking questions) and solving time between teams from our high school was it. The result of this activity was an e-book the one in which, on the same drawings published on Issuu formed by regular polygons, problems were (https:\/\/issuu.com\/mihagit\/docs\/equilateral_tr created, both by the students from the 7th iangle_spirals_in__an). This book is grade and by those from 10th grade. The incorporated both in the TwinSpace and on the subject of the lesson was regular polygons, site associated with the project. Here is a page respectively equations of the rights from this book: determined by them. The result of the activity was also an e-book. https:\/\/issuu.com\/mihagit\/docs\/regular_polyg ons___art. Another collaboration theme was \\\"Lines and curves\\\". This time the students in the 9th and 10th grades created art using graphs of linear, quadratic, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic functions. The idea can be further developed by building spirals from squares or other geometric figures. Of course, we can think of an analytical interpretation for any drawing built in an orthogonal coordinate system. Last school year I used this source to create an analytical geometry test (https:\/\/www.proprofs.com\/quiz- school\/ugc\/story.php?title=math-quiz- template_387wd). An example of vertical collaboration took place within the activity \\\"Circles and polygons\\\". International teams were formed with students in grades 5 and 7. Students in Germany created various drawings containing regular polygons, and students in Romania created problems related to these drawings. They also calculated the corresponding perimeters and areas. The result is a book on Issuu with this collection of problems, which can be an online learning resource for any","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Each class was divided into teams and the eTwinning Project resulting products were uploaded to the \\\"Lines \u201cMinecraft Mission 2\u201d and Curves\\\" page of the TwinSpace. E-books by Cira Serio, and presentations were created: \\\"Art in linear Loredana Ursini, functions\\\", \\\"Art with quadratic functions\\\", \\\"Art Fortuna Testa, with trigonometric functions\\\". All these Dhurata Cuka, e-books were based on interactive files Maura Corazzola, created using the GeoGebra application. Carmela Lucignano, GeoGebra files have also been grouped into Annunziata Spina, interactive books on the same topics. For Gesualda Testa and example: Giobanna Cennamo https:\/\/www.geogebra.org\/m\/th8vcw6q, https:\/\/www.geogebra.org\/m\/u8edbhmd. I\u2019m Cira and with Fortuna I founded the They can be used in math classes, they can be Minecraft Mission project today in its second modified, creating other functions with edition. Minecraft Mission 2 is a project that interesting graphical representations. They are experimented with the didactic methodology of ideal working tools for distance learning. gamification using a powerful tool offered by Microsoft: Minecraft Education Edition. Other beautiful and useful activities in the study of mathematics were carried out within This project offered me the possibility to carry the project, starting from the Fibonacci Circles out a double twinning and the result, for me, (7th grade), tessellations (9th grade) and was absolutely fantastic. reaching representations of the roots of the 10th grade binomial equations. By following Why am I talking about double twinning? As the materials published on the an eTwinning Ambassador and MIE Expert https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/amexhibition\/ho Italy I was able to create an effective twinning me site, you will be able to choose the ones between the powerful Microsoft tools and the that suit your class level or you can modify or European eTwinning platform, a dynamic, transform them. flexible platform with a highly collaborative character in which the exchange of ideas and Awards: The A.M.E - Art&Math Exhibition project was awarded with the First National Prize in Romania in the category: eTwinning Ambassadors 2019-2020, and with 5 European Quality Labels. Mihaela G\u00ee\u0163 is a Mathematics teacher at Liceul Jean Monnet in Bucharest, Romania. She has been an eTwinner since 2010 and an eTwinning Ambassador since 2017.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter the sharing of innovative and significant teaching methodologies allows the entire school community: Executives, Teachers, Students, School Staff, Families, to move in unison as in a great team game capable of creating and transmitting knowledge and skills, overcoming geographical boundaries and language barriers. Minecraft EE, Flipgrid, PowerPoint and the immersive reading tool present in them have made this project highly inclusive, favouring the development of transversal skills, such as creativity, and the improvement and development of linguistic, mathematical, digital, artistic, computer skills , e-safety and engineering, in one word: STEAM. The project participated in the INDIRE Mineclass Trial, the Makercamp Competition and Ora Futuro, obtaining excellent results. Now I leave the floor to my friends and fantastic project partners Hi, I\u2019m Loredana Ursini and I am the Headmaster of the eTwinning School \\\"San Tarcisio - Bimbi Lieti\\\" in Ercolano Italy. The Minecraft Mission 2 project allowed us to realize what Papert said: \\\"The goal is to teach in a way that offers the most learning with the least teaching. [...] The other fundamental change needed mirrors a proverb African: if a man is hungry you can give him a fish, but better still is to give him a line and teach him to fish\\\". (Seymour Papert) It is a highly inclusive STEM project, which immediately proved to be a powerful tool for engaging teaching and which was able to make all students protagonists of their own learning process. The project saw all the students involved in a path with Cambridge, at","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter the end of which they all improved their skills I am Fortuna Testa and I am founder of the in the English language, also overcoming the project together with the eTwinning fear of making mistakes. In addition, students Ambassador Cira Serio. I discovered took part in the Minecraft Challenge, eTwinning just two years ago and I was sponsored by Microsoft, to improve and immediately fascinated by its superb develop 21st century skills. potentiality. The project has entered the school curriculum I have always tried to introduce something in a simple and effective way, offering all new in my way of teaching because I never students the opportunity to enhance the skills, wanted to bore even myself at first and then abilities and key skills for the citizens of the all my students. I can do my best only if 100% 21st century, making them ready to face with involved, and after almost 30 years of work in serenity the challenges that the world will put school I still have so much desire of learning on their path. more and trying out. News enriches me and provides me with the right charge for giving All the students involved developed an my students, while teaching them, what they excellent ability to solve problems, correctly all really deserve. analyzing the information available and searching for others that were necessary in eTwinning and Minecraft give me this order to solve the problem. Another skill that I opportunity: I found the incentive I was detected as a teacher at the end of their looking for and I started planning my work curricular learning path is certainly the with a complete different mind from the past. improved ability of critical thinking, which allowed them to analyze and ponder the More than once my co-workers defined me as various situations and choose the shortest and a \u201cfire\u201d and since I started working with other most effective way to overcome the little ones. school I feel just like this. Ideas flow in my obstacles they faced during the activities they mind by themselves; lessons are interesting; were called upon to carry out. students are always involved, motivated and cooperative. The integration of Minecraft in the school curriculum has offered them the opportunity to eTwinning projects are inclusive and have significant experiences that have allowed innovative, additionally STEM and TIC them to understand how mathematical tools activities, meeting online make students the are useful to operate in reality, they have also main characters of their own knowledge. Even developed the transversal competence of families share this innovative way of teaching creativity through which they have imagined and see their children never bored or tired. innovative solutions and new answers with They instead collaborate without ever sensing which to carry out all the activities in a brilliant the hard work. way. Mathematics, science, history, geography, art have made a strong Minecraft as way of teaching has been a educational alliance with information winning choice: it allows me to involve all the technology and this has made students never students and all of them reach satisfying tired of studying and learning. goals.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter I used Minecraft not only for project activities but also for math, science, geography, geometry. The longer we learn using it, the more it helps us studying. The students really understood the value of this instrument, and it became no more a pastime and more and more a way of learning. Hello, my name I Dhurata Cuka, I\u2019m a primary The world of Minecraft is no longer just a school teacher from Burrel, in Albania. distant virtual reality for me and my children, I have been part of eTwinning for a couple of but a friend who helps us in Art, Math, years and I am already a regional coordinator Science, English and Literature. in my country. This year we received the title of ETWINNING SCHOOL 2021-2022. I would like to mention the first challenge we organized on TwinSpace, an online meeting to I don't know if you know that feeling when you design our flags with pixel art. That day my think you are good at your job, but there is children had come to school half an hour something missing and it does not make you earlier, so that they were ready by twelve, the relax. \\\"There's always something wrong!\\\" time when the event began. With those few computers available, we were ready to go Then I discovered eTwinning and I can't stop. inside. But, surprise! There was no electricity I met some wonderful friends. We discuss, at school that day, a defect caused by a short write, collaborate and share experiences and circuit. The children were almost crying. I situations to interact at work and also outside. opened the event on my mobile, at least to On one of these occasions I also met the see our friends. I passed my cell phone from MINECRAFT MISSION team. one to the other. After ten minutes, our lights went on. The children were cheering, but also Do you believe me that when they proposed those from the TwinSpace. I kept connecting me to be part of the Minecraft project I only my computer and video projector and in the knew one skin that sang in a YouTube video meantime I heard Cira from my cell phone \u201cGirls know how to fight\u201d. But my kids knew saying: \u201cBrava Dhurata! You will make it! \u201d. more. They knew the demos they had After five minutes we went inside and downloaded to their parents' smartphones. managed to finish the Italian flag with pixel art. Luckily it was easy though, because if it My Italian friends and colleagues followed me had been ours, it would have been more step by step and helped me to include difficult to make our eagle. It was great to see Minecraft Education Edition in my lessons, in our Italian friends drawing our eagle in pixel my class, in the \u201cIlia Qiqi\u201d primary school in art. Burrel, Albania. Then there are no words to describe the joy It gave me a push to keep bringing the news and enthusiasm of my children when they to my students, as well as being the first to found themselves in the same world for the know and use them in the classroom. first time with their Italian peers and friends. They started working quickly thinking it was a race. Then they didn't know how to get rid of the agent. Laughter to no end!","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter If I start telling all the pranks, the developed in teams within your school. An unscheduled meetings, just for the pleasure of eTwinning project broadens horizons, enriches getting together and learning about Minecraft, the professionalism of the teacher, offers the I wouldn't finish. In our country it is said: \\\"A opportunity to promote meaningful learning winter night would not be enough\\\". through the exchange and sharing of ideas and innovative methodologies and teaching But don't think it was all plain sailing. We have integrated by ICT. The collaboration of an been through our troubles. We didn't have eTwinning team is authentic collaboration, the computers, the school ones had broken due to teacher is never alone in designing or the short circuit. But, the parents let us have experimenting with a resource but, within the some PCs and tablets available. Our Italian TwinSpace, he always finds advice, colleagues have given us the licenses of suggestions and solutions through an Minecraft Education Edition. Social distance at exchange of experiences without borders and school was another very difficult thing to deal without barriers, beyond languages and with. beyond the borders of its territory. Now the mission is accomplished. We went Introducing Minecraft into education was from a YouTube video to a didactic tool to use simple, because the shared project MM2 in the classroom. We are lucky and very happy (Minecraft Mission 2) offered a wide range of to have met these fantastic friends on opportunities and activities to create real MINECRAFT MISSION 2. knowledge-building laboratories, such as the Agenda 2030 goal to address the complex We are more grown up and more cultured, problems of Earth (the extinction of some aware that this difficult year has flown away, species of vertebrates and invertebrates, but it has given us this wonderful world, world bee day, world earth day) or activities without borders and without anticovid rules, to for the development of problem solving with share with our friends. the construction of pixel art platforms for the calculation of areas and perimeters. A big thank you goes out to my amazing children and their families who have supported The Comprehensive Institute of Taio (Trento) us during this difficult year for the whole is not yet an eTwinning school, so this second world! edition of Minecraft mission was particularly important, to spread this new way of working Hello I\u2019m Maura Corazzola, eTwinning has and learning as a team, among the colleagues been a particularly interesting, pleasant and of the primary and secondary school of the stimulating job opportunity, a wonderful Institute where I work. adventure with which excellent results were achieved thanks to the fantastic colleagues, Hi, I'm Carmela Lucignano this is the first year ambassadors and non-ambassadors, of the that I participate in an eTwinning project and Italian and Albanian partner schools, with initially I had many doubts especially about whom I collaborated and shared the whole the technologies to be adopted and the path to introduce the Minecraft platform in devices that should have been available to me. educational activities, a useful tool for Fortunately, these difficulties have all been conveying learning contents in a playful way. overcome by the tenacity and strong will of my students. They learned to use Minecraft An eTwinning project always has an extra and for those who already knew it as a game, gear, an added value compared to projects","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter they were able to turn it into a learning tool The children in the class responded positively that made them all work together. That was to the work we developed with Carmela and the best part of this project for me and my Giovanna. Everyone felt part of this project. students: learning to collaborate, working with NO ONE EXCLUDED! As I have loved to say for other children, respecting one\u2019s own and years. others time, all aimed at building a world common to other students not only of our In inclusive projects, those who have some school and our city, but also with students difficulties are not noticed because the from other countries. It was funny but above VIRTUAL REALITY overcomes the differences. I am ready to grow further with eTwinning. Thanks to all MY BELOVED CHILDREN who amaze me and from whom I ALWAYS LEARN NEW THINGS. They are my teachers! all educational, to organize the work to be Hi, my name is Gesualda Testa and I only carried out and see it as realizing and to entered the world of eTwinning for two years become virtually real on our whiteboard. It and I was immediately fascinated. eTwinning was wonderful to build our school in the is a platform that enriches the professionalism Minecraft\u2019s world shared with other schools, of us teachers thanks to the comparison and make it as close as possible to the real world active collaboration between the different and then see what the differences were with partners. the schools of our fellow students from other countries. I am very satisfied with what we Furthermore, eTwinning projects allow great have been able to do and especially for my communicational exchanges also between student\u2019s work and their joy. I hope to pupils of different schools who learn to relate continue working with eTwinning projects also to others even at a distance, at the same time for the next year. maturing the awareness of a safe and responsible use of the web. As a support I'm Nunzia Spina, primary school support teacher I collaborated on the Minecraft teacher for many years. Thanks to my Mission2 and Immersive Future projects as a classmates I discovered eTwinning this year support to inclusive teaching. and I must say that I am thrilled by all the inclusive potential that it offers. I have been Thanks to the participation in these projects, I living in the school of \u201cdifferent abilities\u201d for was able to see great improvements in the many years and this project has opened up an relational level of the child I follow, a child even wider world to me with respect to such with autism with difficulties in socialization and complex issues. integration in the classroom context. In general, however, all the children with Children \/ young people with difficulties need participation in the class in which I teach ad hoc virtual paths that help them to deal participated and all the children with a didactic that is not always easy to use. enthusiastically in all the proposals. He sees eTwinning as a valuable collaborative tool for both teachers and pupils. A great potential for innovative and inclusive teaching!","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Hello my name is Giovanna Cennamo. Joining Time Travel eTwinning world was a great experience. The first approach to this new way of working was by Lucia Boldea not easy but I took the challenge and discovered the interesting opportunities that and Adriana Mari\u0219 this platform offers. I have to thank the colleagues I worked with, who shared their \u201cTime travel\u201d project is not a new concept. We knowledge with me and helped me to improve organized it since 2018, in the good old my skills. The chance to collaborate with other fashion way, according to the title. The idea schools near and far was very stimulating and was creative and generous, as the students very exciting as a teacher and for the students had to express their relation with national themselves. eTwinning has a great potential historical or cultural monuments, using and can enable teachers and pupils to achieve drawing, painting, literary or photographic innovative and inclusive teaching. skills. The enthusiasm of my students in participating For the first section \u2013 \u201cI was there\u201d \u2013 the in the eTwinning Minecraft Mission 2 project students 11 to 15 years old had to visit a has grown day by day, they felt protagonists historical monument, then draw or paint it. and free to express themselves by using their Their teachers had to send the selected creativity. It was a great experience, artworks in special big envelopes through especially in this historical era of personal and regular mail, or bring them to our school, in social growth. Students created new order to create an exhibition and to participate relationships, exchanged views, cooperated for in a contest. the same project. At the end of this experience, I greeted my students with the promise of participating in a new eTwinning project next year. With pleasure I will keep my promise. See you soon, eTwinning! The second section \u2013 \u201cTo visit in Romania\u201d \u2013 addressed to students 11 to 19 years old, included both literary and teamwork skills. Teams of 3 or 4 students, coordinated by a teacher, were supposed to create portfolios including an essay of up to two pages which tells an interesting historical story heard from grandparents, friends or even read in history books and a touristic guide with information and pictures of maximum four historical","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter landmarks from our country. The portfolio had to be presented to the audience on the 1st of June, the day of the contest. For the third section \u2013 \u201cSeen through the lens\u201d \u2013 students 11 to 19 years old could participate by sending original photos of historical landmarks, together with a motto. All the photos were sent to our school and we created exhibitions, where the jury \u2013 including teachers and specialists \u2013 voted the best, most inspired photos. ones joined as well. Some of the teachers participating in the previous editions of the \u201cTime travel\u201d project were not eTwinners, so we assisted them in creating accounts, joining contact lists, joining the project, exploring TwinSpace, presenting their school, uploading students\u2019 work, then voting in the virtual exhibition. But we managed to achieve all that and set up the deadline for the 9th of June. You can find the result of our efforts at this address: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/182166\/ The evaluation criteria for the entire contest There are several advantages in organizing also included originality, authenticity, this project virtually. Firstly, we work with correlation between the work and the message electronic files; we can send them through e- and coherence of the information structure mail or upload them directly in the materials and accuracy of the language used \u2013 for the portfolios. This traditional project \u2013 contest could have been continued for a long time in regular conditions. But, in 2020, we were not able to organize the exhibitions or the presentations. Classes did not organize their traditional trips, families did not travel too much, so we found more and more challenging to motivate students and teachers to participate. We were thinking to postpone this year edition until better times will come. And then, since we were awarded the eTwinning school label for the second time, the idea came in naturally: Let\u2019s do it virtually! So, we created an eTwinning project, we invited all our former partners and some new","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter folders. No more printing, finding the right students\u2019 documentation in terms of envelope, going to the post office, paying for knowledge of historical sites in their country stamps, and hoping that the package will and respect for their ancestors, to creating arrive in time. It is cheaper, faster, safer and and developing certain skills, and raising we also helped reducing the CO2 emissions. adults\u2019 awareness of the need to pass on the Secondly, if we organize the exhibitions and knowledge to future generations. And since it the presentations event online, we can have is also a competition, it contributes to inter- more participants and they can be situated at and self-evaluation, to a better teacher- a longer distance. And we came with the idea student-community communication and of inviting our Erasmus+ project partners to increases the prestige of the partner schools. our eTwinning project and they happily joined, because European projects partners are as The role of eTwinning platform in this year\u2019s flexible and as involved as they can be. Thus, edition of our project was crucial. It offered a the number of participants and their entries safe space to communicate with our partners, increased so much that we had to split Section to display students\u2019 work and to organize our III into 4 smaller sub-sections, because we voting process. Teachers and students thought that one cannot judge objectively participated so enthusiastic, that we decided more than 100 photos. Moreover, since we to re-launch the project each year in this new had a virtual exhibition and online voting, we format. And we invite you all to join us! thought that we can open the voting process to the public as well. So we invited our partners to vote and we have awarded both the jury\u2019s choices as the public ones. Lucia Boldea is a Physics teacher at Liceul Teoretic Coriolan Brediceanu in Lugoj, Romania. She has been an eTwinner since 2016. In 2018 she initiated the Time Travel project, and she has been coordinating it ever since. 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. While developing students\u2019 observation spirit, stimulating their creativity, cultivating moral and character values, increasing the quality of their social life, this project aims to improving","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter eTwinning and \\\"G.Mazzini\\\" - Genova - Italy, Agrupamento de Escolas da Senhora da Hora - Matosinhos - Civics during Portugal, Lyc\u00e9e Saint-Exupery - La Rochelle - France, Zheleznik High School - Stara Zagora - Pandemic: An Bulgaria, Cagribey Anadolu Lisesi - Uskudar Istanbul - Turkey. Example of Starting from the need to dedicate curricular Collaboration about hours to citizenship education, together with the partners we started planning a project that eSafety in the Project could have been very short: asking students to indicate some questions on issues related to \u201cSafe Young Citizens the risks that adolescents run while surfing the net, make them answer and then analyze the on the Net\u201d results obtained with the help of graphs. by Enrica Maragliano However, we soon realized that all this was carried out in a particular school year, in which Civics is an interdisciplinary teaching in many contacts would certainly have been more European countries. In the midst of the difficult due to the pandemic. We began to pandemic, partners realized that it was think, then, about how to make groups of important for their students to work remotely students interact effectively, taking into in groups with peers at a time when they often account that some classes were newly formed could not attend face-to-face classes and, if and, therefore, it was also necessary to this was possible, they had to maintain cement relationships within national groups. measures of social distancing. We therefore began to design collaborative The approach chosen is crucial above all for activities to be carried out remotely in which pupils who were starting a new cycle of the members of the international teams could studies and who, due to anti-pandemic get to know each other. For this reason we measures, had difficulty in forming a class organized some activities both synchronous group: thus social restrictions could be and asynchronous to let students interact and overcome by opening the classrooms to make decisions together. Europe. Therefore we decided to tackle the issue of digital education together with an The project\u2019s logo is made by all of them: eTwinning project, introducing the topic, everybody contributed to decide the making students reflect on the risks of surfing background and posted pictures related with the net, helping them to work in international the topic or with their town, hobbies, etc used mixed groups, getting to know their to create the final image. classmates better and expanding the knowledge of European peers thanks to the web. The involved students were 9th or 10th graders from Liceo Classico e Linguistico","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter students on the forum, creating a questionnaire with Google.Form which was then distributed to as many teenagers as possible: the answers obtained were almost 500 and some were not from Europe. Then the international groups analyzed these data and each of them, working together using a Google.Doc file, prepared a chapter of the ebook that was also distributed on many social channels to disseminate the project and to let those who responded know what the general trends had been. This work required effort but gave a lot of Having created the ebook, it was necessary to satisfaction because all the students, even the organize a final event and we thought, even most reluctant to work, gave their before knowing that this year the annual contribution, realizing that collaboration theme etwinning would have covered media requires the common effort of each member of literacy and disinformation, to ask students to the group to obtain results. The students met indicate true and false news to create a in a first introductory video-conference, then Kahoot session in the videoconference exchanged non-sensitive information to conclusive and it was a real success because understand who the team members were with not only the students but also their families a specific ice-breaking activity and started challenged each other trying to understand working on the theme of the project, proposing questions on the topic assigned to any international group (cyberbullying, privacy, copyright, fake news, phishing). The teachers selected the questions among the most relevant or the most appreciated by","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter which of the questions proposed (usually two zones, as the project involved schools from per team, one real and one fake chosen Portugal, France, Italy, Bulgaria and Turkey. among the most voted on a Tricider) were real or fake news. The students also played a very active part in the use of the eTwinning platform and the The project is strongly linked to the curriculum software tools proposed by the teachers. The of the classes involved and to the fact of being able to give directions directly requirements of governments in relation to during the onsite lessons, as happened in digital citizenship education. This project made previous years, was a great advantage: this it possible to consolidate disciplinary and year this has not always been possible and we analytical knowledge and skills on the part on had made up for it with tutorials for the whole statistics with reading graphs, while the working group and with specific hints to the processing of data with a spreadsheet, the students of whom each of us in the team was writing of documents, the use of shared a tutor or the teacher. The software tools we resources as well as the themes of the project used were mainly those made available by the on risks of the web have made it possible to TwinSpace, when it was necessary for consolidate ICT knowledge. In addition, the students to communicate asynchronously, and students could interact in English with by GSuite, when teachers and students had to European partners and this certainly improved interact, collaborate and for surveys. We also their knowledge of this language. The key used Mentimeter for the introductory activities competences developed by the students were and the choice of the logo, TurboMosaic to many: functional alphabetic competence, compose the image of the logo itself, Tricider interacting in their mother tongue and in to choose the fake and real news that each English; multilingual proficiency, actively using international group had to propose, Kahoot! English; mathematical and technological for the final online game, Genially for the competence, analyzing the results of the presentation of classes and schools, Calameo survey, creating statistical graphs and learning for the eBook, Canva for the cover of the tools and strategies to avoid the risks they can ebook itself, ScreenCastOMatic for the run while surfing the net; digital competence tutorials and Rubistar for ideas about the by collaborating remotely, thanks to the wide assessment section. We collected all privacy and diversified use of ICT tools; personal, releases and educated students on the code of social competence and the ability to learn to conduct, copyright and intellectual property learn through teamwork and collaboration which have also been the subject of study. The within international teams; social and civic source of all the material used is cited and all competence through interaction with partners the images are the property of the partners or and discussion with them on issues of digital have a Creative Commons license. citizenship; entrepreneurial competence having to organize to work together in teams; competence in cultural awareness and expression by working with foreign mates, with different habits, allowed them to overcome commonplaces. As always in eTwinning projects, technology was fundamental, but this year, with a lot of work done in distance learning, its importance was even greater: many students, in fact, worked on the project and connected to the videoconferences from home. The synchronous events had the added complexity of sometimes having to host more than 100 people and being held in 4 different time","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Participation in the project was really very eTwinning Stories, important for the students, both for the knowledge and skills acquired in Mathematics, Experiments and ICT and English and for the social aspects and transversal skills developed. The classes Coding Activities benefited from the opportunity to work in groups, even if at a distance, and to open the by Nicoletta Hu\u0219tiuc walls of their classroom or their home, if they were confined for the lockdown, to Europe. This year I started a wonderful eTwinning project with a colleague from Turkey, on the The disciplinary objectives were achieved wonderful eTwinning platform, a project that is through careful planning and constant support intended to be a continuation of another to the students, both in the classroom and project, \\\"Travelling with fairytales\\\", a project during the online lessons. The cross-curricular that promoted reading through Eric's stories. goals were achieved through excellent Carle. This year we have been working and collaboration with partner teachers and mutual working on this project, Coding, Steam and support within international teams. After an Stories, with a story each month, integrated initial phase where the classes found it difficult activities related to story coding, maze, color to collaborate, things started to work quite coding and other wonders related to age and well and the students got excited about the so on steam, respectively experiments, related project and the final survey in which they were to the subject of the stories. asked confirmed it: many of the disciplinary and citizenship skills European and digital, All partners have carried out, each in part, which were cross-curricular aims, have their work, so that they can all participate in tangibly improved, and students also realized the joint actions carried out and planned in the it. The families were very happy with the project. Some of the stories were not children's participation in the educational path translated, so we had the opportunity to and some parents participated in eTwinning practice creative skills and language events such as the one on Infodemic as well execution, then to record our voice, the as in the synchronous events and in particular images being in power point, together doing in the final one to which they were invited. wonderful activities. You can find all the information about the project in the TwinSpace. Enrica Maragliano is a Maths and Physics teacher and a passionate eTwinning and Scientix ambassador. She likes trying new teaching approaches for her students so they are challenged and learn many soft skills, not only in her subjects but also about cross-curricular topics.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The project wants to promote reading so that we reach a more detailed knowledge of the world of Eric Carle's stories, stories accessible to everyone and wonderful for all kindergarten children. In the previous project as a final result we had They go home and tell parents, older or two books with various files, interdisciplinary, younger siblings and the thirst for reading is for each story. The books, although online, are slowly subdued, but we really like that we can open resources for anyone who wants to communicate internationally with other access them, because using them can increase teachers, to carry out common activities that children's interest in the story. We were not a lead to the same goal, strengthening reading little surprised when, many times, wanting to skills for children's books and implementing start a new story, the children asked us for the the love for books from an early age. We will same story again and again, a sign that they let the images speak for us and thank you for already loved them. sharing our experience. Nicoletta Hu\u0219tiuc is a preschool teacher, responsible of the committee of educators in her school, \u0218coala Gimnazial\u0103 Nr. 3 Cugir, Gr\u0103dini\u021ba cu Program Normal Vinerea, Alba county, Romania. She is very interested in eTwinning, that is why she has been an eTwinning ambassador since 2019. She has been involved in eTwinning since 2008. She just finished an Erasmus+ KA2 strategic partnership that she coordinated. She likes learning and working with little children very much.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter A Different School puzzles. The preschoolers involved also Year, a Successful presented a dialogue with their mother about eTwinning Project! a local personality. Then the project brought a by Iuliana Florentina little colour to the plate with the theme: Ispir and Alexandra \\\"Delicious and colourful breakfast in the Anamaria Vlad family!\u201d Have you ever thought that any change in Then carols, costumes and traditional dances, your daily life can be a challenge? plants, local beauties and virtual museums were presented - with the help of the Book This school year, in which online activity was Creator platform. an integral part of the teaching activity, was also a challenge for eTwinning projects. We even celebrated Safer Internet Day in February and made an electronic magazine The \u201cMy City, My Story\u201d project tried to with cartoons on the Toony Tool platform. promote the history, tradition and culture of the city to each partner involved. For us, Children and parents were also tested when teaching at home has become a challenge. I they had to present poems from children's didn't think we would be able to coordinate folklore and mimic-gestural signs to celebrate preschoolers effectively. But the help came the day of children with disabilities. from the parents, who got involved in the project and thus became partners with us and With the help of the Phinish Collage Maker the little ones. application, we finally made the project title. Now, all we have to do is to wait for the results of the evaluation and reward the children and parents alike. The project started with the presentation of Iuliana Florentina Ispir, with 22 years of teaching local personalities and used as ICT elements: experience, and Alexandra Anamaria Vlad, with 12 years the Padlet platform, YouTube and jigsaw of teaching experience, have been a pre-school team for the last 6 years at \u0218coala Gimnazial\u0103 Nr. 4, Structura Gr\u0103dini\u021ba cu Program Prelungit \u201cDumbrava Minunat\u0103\u201d in R\u00e2mnicu-V\u00e2lcea, Romania. They have been both active in eTwinning since 2013. eTwinning projects bring them together and make their bond stronger.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Modelling Awareness The project involves 4 countries (Spain, Italy, Solutions for Romania and Tunisia), 105 students and 4 Environmental Issues teachers. through eTwinning by Imen Taktak The main objective of the project was to Marzouk and Marika encourage and develop a positive value in Emese C\u00eempean relation to living beings and nature as a whole. The students were aware of the fact that The TwinSpace of our eTwinning project nature is ours mild and how they want to think \u201cGreen Behaviour Code\u201d is here: green and become green to keep this world https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/129003\/home clean, and this is through coding 9 collaborative programs (9 teams) to obtain our It is a project about cultivating mental final Green Behaviour, which was voted in a awareness, re-evaluating ourselves and our live event by all the members of the 9 teams values, avoiding negative thought patterns, https:\/\/bit.ly\/3vUbjgf. and taking steps to find balance in day-to-day life. That is why we want to make our pupils Knowledge, skills and attitudes gained by aware that our behaviours affect deeply and participating in this project enable students\u2019 irreparably the environment. They should better understanding the world surrounding it, think about an alternative behaviour more making it easier to find new situations in the illustrative to the environment. natural world social environment and decision- making for personal well-being, community In fact, our purpose is to produce a \\\"Green well-being and nature. Behaviour Code\\\" to spread around in the community, families, other schools. The code is done through Scratch program. Pupils vote for the best \u201cGreen Behaviour Code\u201d that becomes our commitment to protect our environment. The students used the technology securely and responsibly, connecting you with learning from the teaching subjects of Nature and Society with other subjects, interdisciplinary topics and areas of curriculum and developed innovation, creativity and openness for new","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter ideas to make actively contributing to \\\"Kindergarten at sustainable development and ability effective management of our own learning, individually, Home\\\", an eTwinning in pairs and in a group. See here https:\/\/bit.ly\/368sErr and the final products Project during the https:\/\/bit.ly\/3xNQAff. Pandemic Time In the end, we would point out that it is important for our school whose students were by Florina Popescu involved in this project, has improved its social and civic competencies. The pupils understood In this period, imposed by the pandemic with how to do it. People's action should be COVID-19, that put all of us to the test from a consistent with sustainable development, physical, mental and moral point of view, the aimed at preserving nature and the children were and remain the great joy and at environment and the promotion of society. the same time the great challenge. How Each activity was understood seriously should we organize, how can we involve believing that they build a better world. children so that the time spent at home is https:\/\/bit.ly\/3joilph. remembered by them as a period of connection with parents, rather than about coronavirus and panic? How do we help children get through these days? This is how the eTwinning project \\\"Kindergarten at home\\\" appeared. The project wanted to come to the natural continuation of the instructive- educational process in kindergarten, interrupted at the time of closing the educational institutions, in March 2020. Imen Taktak Marzouk is a Scientix and eTwinning ambassador, a Europe Code Week ambassador, an MIE Expert and an ICT teacher at Pioneer Middle School of Sfax, Tunisia. She is the founder of a project awarded the European eTwinning prize in 2020. She has a Master degree in informatics and multimedia. Marika Emese C\u00eempean is a Romanian language and literature teacher, with 17 years of teaching experience. She is an eTwinning ambassador, an MIE Expert and a Microsoft Certified Educator. She is an awarded eTwinner, actively involved in promoting the platform and in training and mentoring teachers.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The project \\\"Kindergarten at home\\\" aimed to involvement and interactivity of children. create an online learning space, respecting the Being an interdisciplinary project, it focused on own pace of learning of each preschool child, the ways in which knowledge can be for activities in the preschool field during the transferred, skills in various learning contexts closure of kindergartens. The project activities (by enriching knowledge about changes that were guided by the principles set out in the occur in nature, by exchanging knowledge Curriculum for Early Education. The activities between children). Thus, the feedback were organized for children of large groups, between the various learning experiences was following the contents provided in the facilitated (through experimentation, Curriculum for early education 2019, for discovery, interpretation, capitalization of experiential fields: Science - Environmental previous experiences and those acquired Knowledge and Mathematical Activities, during the project). Language and Communication Education, Psycho-Motor, Creative Education: Artistic- Plastic Activity and Music Education, Human and Society Domain: Education for Society and Practical Activity. The project, carried out during March-June All the activities proposed during this period 2020, encouraged the creation of a friendly followed the observance of the principles and attractive learning environment for provided by the Curriculum and contributed to children, the theme addressed stimulating the premises of the formation of the following their interest by creating optimal learning competencies: situations, given the particularity of the \u2022 Development of creativity and pandemic situation. The children worked expressiveness of oral language individually, in collaboration with their parents, \u2022 Development of pre-mathematical looking for information, images to contribute intellectual operations to the activities. At the same time, the \u2022 Developing the ability to know and children made purchases practically, through understand the environment, as well as simple experiments performed at home, in stimulating curiosity to investigate it nature-when this was possible, by exploring, research conducted through the game. The teaching strategies used during the project activities were carefully selected, in a form accessible to children, creative. Brainstorming, problem solving, learning through discovery, interactive methods - aimed at the active","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter \u2022 Knowledge and observance of the norms of a diverse methodology, generating interest, behaviour in society; educating the ability to motivating for play, activity, learning, relate to others responding emotionally and intellectually to \u2022 Formation of work skills for making perceptual experiences, sensitivity to different drawings, paintings, modelling levels of quality, appreciation of beauty and \u2022 Knowledge of hygienic-sanitary skills to suitability for purpose or use, meeting their maintain good health. interest and need to know. During the project, the children brainstormed The collaboration between the kindergartens weekly through the \\\"Question of the Week\\\", was constant, the partners establishing by performed the tasks of the suggested activities mutual agreement the staggering of the daily, either online or in letter format, activities, the effective way of accomplishing conducted experiments and experiments in the activities, each partner having to fulfil nature, starting with the second half of May, precise tasks - creation of intermediate \/ final had the opportunity to analyze \/ explore products. This way of collaboration led to the objects \/ phenomena \/ ideas they were efficient, unitary resolution of responsibilities, attracted to, and communicated and shared thus adding added value to the project. The impressions with colleagues, with the teacher, peculiarity of the project was given by the through weekly meetings on the Zoom involvement of children and parents of platform. The project activities continued the preschool groups, through the activities instructive-educational process from the carried out at home and not in the group moment it did not take place in kindergarten. room. Being interdisciplinary in nature, they required","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter 5. Design and elaboration of activities corresponding to the theme \u201cHow is, was and will be here on earth?\u201d - Earth and Space, Solar System 6. Design and elaboration of activities corresponding to the theme \u201cWho and how plans \/ organizes an activity?\u201d - Means of locomotion and transport 7. Realization of intermediate product-film comprising activities carried out in the second month of the project 8. Design and elaboration of activities corresponding to the theme \u201cHow do we express what we feel? - Children's Day- Children's Rights 9. Production of the final product: film comprising activities carried out between March and June 2020. The project took place during March-June, as Each partner's ideas mattered and changes follows: were made when necessary. 1. Design and elaboration of activities corresponding to the theme \\\"When, how and For uploading the activities and for effective why does it happen?\\\" - spring, summer. communication and collaboration, teachers 2. Design and elaboration of activities and children regularly used the TwinSpace corresponding to the theme \u201cHow do we virtual space. During the project, the efficient express what we feel?\u201d - Easter traditions use of technologies was both a working tool 3. Realization of intermediate product-film and an objective. The tools that were used to comprising activities carried out in the first give visibility to the project were found in the month of the project virtual space, on the kindergarten website, on 4. Design and development of activities the personal blog. the activities carried out related to the theme \u201cWho am \/ are we?\u201d - Europe Day, eTwinning Day, Family Day","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter during the project were carried out using the ability to adapt, to make the best decisions, applications Jigsaw Puzzle, LearningApps, the ability to express oneself constructively Wordwall, PurposeGames, Livresq, are the aspects that characterized the StoryJumper, Genially, Padlet-for organizing development of this project. and presenting children's ideas, through the eTwinning Virtual Space: Teachers' Space, Project products can be viewed at: Pages, Images, Videos, Journal project, https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/112908\/home through presentation programs- YouTube. Florina Popescu is a pre-school teacher in T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te, Romania, and an eTwinning Ambassador since 2017. She loves working with children and she is interested in projects about art, theatre, ecological issues, geography. Her blog is http:\/\/popescu-florina.blogspot.com\/. As for the children, it should be noted that their young age and health situation \\\"penalized\\\" the \\\"digital\\\" part of the project, however children became familiar with various applications with which online games were made for pre-schoolers, developing in this way, the basic skills in science and digital, and in a complementary way - the children became familiar with the ways of using the computer, appropriate to the preschool age. In this way, attractive, spectacular Web 2.0 tools were used, appropriate to the age of the children involved in the project (5-6 years). The motivating character of the project, the team activities, the integrated approach of the contents, the real collaboration, the methodology used by each partner I consider that it represents the result obtained as a result of the project development. The aspect and at the same time the most impressive result is the ability to cooperate and collaborate in a group, the way both children and teachers relate in the situation of closing kindergartens and carrying out activities - support for online learning. The","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Media Literacy in one ever and hopefully our only one under a pandemic. Remote Teaching - We as teachers participating in the #DigitalEU-we\u2018ll do #DigitalEU-we\u2018ll do project learnt a lot from each other. In the good spirit of being by Heidi Giese eTwinners and lifelong learners, we always shared our ideas and knowledge of suitable Media literacy is one of the most important tools, methods or our experience with stable skills students should obtain in 21st century video conference systems with breakout learning. Nowadays, millions of fake news can rooms we could use for meeting up with the be found in every possible publication on the students. web. So, our project idea this year was how to be aware of Fake News: how easy it is to Our favourite Tools create one - our European students created The favourite tools during our project many Fake News - and how difficult it also continuation in remote teaching were a seems to be to recognize news as Fake News. screencast tool we used to register our screen In addition to that, we also wanted to let our with to explain the tasks with the \u201cflipped students dig deeper to find out how they can classroom\u201d method in the TwinSpace be sure of which news are not fake ones and https:\/\/www.screencastify.com and a comic also where to find reliable information. maker. For the comics the students wrote, we found Pixton and our students continued to create one comic after another. It was great to see how they liked the Pixton environment and how many ideas came into words. This tool is available in English and also in French or Spanish and helps practicing the foreign language from the beginning of use as students, while creating their avatar, have to find and thereby learn vocabulary that goes with e.g. colours to describe hair colour, size, type etc. https:\/\/www.pixton.com. It is also a suitable tool for creating new content following the 4 Cs in an education process. The project Creating Fake News Our eTwinning project #Digital EU- we\u2018ll do has been planned to be a cross curricular The web page our students used to create project involving English, Social Science, their Fake News with is easy to organize and partly in German and in Romanian language. shows great outcomes in less than 5 minutes. It started in remote teaching (February 2021) https:\/\/classtools.net\/breakingnews helped due to school closures in Germany (since them to acknowledge how easy it is to create January 2021) and the Romanian school Fake News. At the same time, they understood involved taking decisions from Friday to Friday while observing the Covid-19 regional case numbers. At the end (April 2021) we had both (Marika Emese C\u00eempean and her class in Romania and my co-teacher Victoria and I with our students in Germany) done a complete remote teaching project, our first","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter to be careful with news in general and to Sometimes instead of quizzes we also use check before they would share. Fake News https:\/\/menti.com to verify our students\u2018 nowadays are easily put together and seem to feelings. Since they had to stay at home for a be real news. very long period of the last school year (2020\/21), we needed to be at their side, Rubrics giving them possibilities to express their In school lessons and in remote lessons in hopes, fears, worries to feel heard and less particular, we accompany our students along alone. their individual way of learning. We try to be as transparent as possible with what we consider important for them to know and what we expect them to learn. In this way, the students are able to organize their workload better and are informed about our lesson plans and content expectation for a specific vote. We usually use rubrics for this purpose. One easy rubric maker is https:\/\/quickrubric.com. Formative assessment Another way of doing formative assessment can be organizing quizzes. Preparing questions (multiple choice \u2026 ) gives us the chance to see where exactly our students are with their understanding, if they get what we consider them to know or if we need to provide them with different input to guarantee the comprehension of the content. We love the quiz maker in https:\/\/quizizz.com and regularly prepare quizzes or let our students create some. You immediately get the results of the students and you then can accordingly plan the next parts of your lesson. With Quizizz, students can learn at their own pace individually and you as a teacher always know where every single student of your class has arrived and follow them easily along while going forward in learning new content.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Feedback classrooms again. We have also noticed that In our eTwinning projects we usually prepare the tools described in this article helped our three feedback sessions: one at the beginning students and us as their teachers to stay to gather the students\u2019 expectations and connected and follow the learning and well- collect their ideas, one while doing the tasks to being of our students. It also motivated see if our students involved are still on track everybody to go on even after several months or if we need to provide more help and then of school closure. one last feedback at the end of the project to verify if the goals we expected were reached It was great to see how most of our students and if the students involved liked being part of kept on track creating wonderful stories with the project and what we could probably Pixton in their international groups. At our two change in another eTwinning project. We all video conferences, we met most of our (teachers as well as students) are lifelong students online. learners and I must say that I am always very grateful when I can teach and also learn from Project work and intrinsic motivation my students and get valuable feedback and A very rewarding moment happened for me new project ideas from them. when one of my students told me that they now understood why studying vocabulary or verb forms of the simple past was not only annoying but at the contrary so important: they met a girl from the Romanian school of Beclean and wanted to tell her new friend during the breakout session about her two dogs. As she used the present instead of the past tense, the information she wanted to give was misunderstood. So our project work gave her a reason to study harder. I could have never convinced this student to study more after all the simple past verb forms - regular or irregular ones. Long live eTwinning! Heidi Giese is a teacher of French and Social Science at Anne-Frank-Schule \/ Europaschule situated in a rural area in the middle of Germany. She is an eTwinning ambassador and a lifelong learner. Lifelong learning The pandemic taught us a lot about how to organize content for our students in a way that they could work independently from home and without immediate help from us teachers in the classroom. The Flipped classroom method was introduced for the purpose and will have a reason to remain in my every day lesson plans even when we will be in our","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Twinfeuill'ton: Love continuing with the presentation of a medieval work of each country, with the rewriting and Prejudice from activities \\\"Imagine another ending of the novel\\\", the project aroused the interest of the Past to the both students and teachers involved . In national teams, an identity card of the Present contemporary characters of the two heroes was proposed, then a questionnaire leading to by Cristina Stan a single couple for all participants. Students responded to a questionnaire on stereotypes \\\"Twinfeuill'ton: love and prejudice from the and prejudices that lead to the separation of past to the present\\\" is an eTwinning project, in two young people. Each class wrote a chapter French based on interdisciplinary of a love novel, taking into account the thread collaboration, a contemporary soap opera of the novel up to that chapter, and at the end inspired by the reading of the medieval the ebook was published in twinspace and on chivalrous novel \\\"Aucassin and Nicolette\\\". the internet. Highlighting the theme of inclusion, the project aimed to allow students to think about The evaluation was done with the help of prejudices, stereotypes that prevent the union online questionnaires for students and of a couple and also to become aware of the teachers. power of love that can promote inclusion in a The objectives and activities of the project society based on differences and that has the were developed in accordance with the power cohesion between people who could live Common European Framework of Reference together despite the differences. The final for Languages and the curriculum of the product is an e-book created by 160 students different countries for living languages of from 10 institutions in Belgium, Spain, Italy, levels A1 + -A2 \/ -B1. The pedagogy of the Greece, Romania and Tunisia. In my school, project allowed to obtain a series of skills such the project took place in the 2018-2019 school as: year, in the optional French language course (which addresses topics of French culture and civilization) and extracurricular activities with students in the seventh grade C, L2. The educational planning of the project aimed at cultivating the skills of the 21st century in students and promoting inclusion values through an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, active, interactive and fun activities and class organization in groups, following the principles of differentiated pedagogy. Starting with students' presentations, forum messages, real mail exchanges, creating logos, understanding and presenting activities of famous couples \/ loves, creating mental maps, dictionaries, searching for information about civilization and literature in the Middle Ages, making presentations , posted, audio-video material, reading the novel, dramatizing and","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter - interpreting, explaining, reformulating and quizizz, Wordart.com, Prezi, Astread, and the illustrating the main ideas of an episode of the Google Translate translator was used. The novel, videos published in the project log are on - introduction to the structure, theme of the Youtube and Vimeo. These documents are in novel-serial, accordance with intellectual property law - development of communication skills in a (original drawings and videos, with parental foreign language, authorizations for photographs of minor - development of digital competence, students). For communication and better interdisciplinary skills, imagination and coordination between teachers, a Facebook creativity, acquisition of cultural awareness group was created and expression, https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/20502534 - cultivating 21st century skills: critical 3262741\/ and I used e-mail. The final thinking, communication, collaboration, production is a text in doc, pdf and e-book - combining facts, ideas and information to format create an original novel, (https:\/\/issuu.com\/helenestavropoulou\/docs\/e - evaluating their work and the work of their _book5). classmates, - stimulating the reading of literary works, The project received national and European - the transmission to future generations of the quality certificates in all participating values transmitted by the literary works of the countries, the second prize in the secondary Middle Ages (courage, patriotism, sacrifice, education category at the National eTwinning honesty, etc.) Competition 2019 Romania, the award for - by addressing medieval French literature and using technology at the National eTwinning civilization, as well as partner countries, Competition 2019 Belgium, the special prize discovering and appreciating Europe's cultural for promoting reading at the European heritage and launching an intercultural eTwinning 2020 Competition. dialogue on what we have in common, - encouraging non-discrimination and abstract Cristina Stan is a French foreign language teacher, with 30 generalizations, promoting diversity, years of experience in education, graduate of the Faculty - students' emotional development by of Letters of the University \\\"Al. I. Cuza\u201d in Ia\u0219i, Romania addressing issues of universal importance, and a Ph.D in management. She has been an eTwinning such as love, friendship, initiation and self- ambassador since 2020. She has participated in over 45 esteem, which address the common concerns eTwinning projects, two of them being rewarded with of adolescents, European awards at the European eTwnning competitions - developing mutual understanding between in 2018 and 2020 and 4 projects obtaining national peoples, intercultural awareness and mutual awards in 2018, 2019 and 2020. For her, eTwinning is the discovery, place where she has developed professionally and - cultivating pedagogical attitudes and values, personally and made many friends among the such as cooperation, social empathy, professionals she met and collaborated with. responsibility, self-confidence, respect, autonomy. The project used all the tools available in the eTwinning virtual space. The activities included all applications (forum, project log, documents, videos). We also used a range of Padlet and PiratePad collaboration tools. I used the software (PowerPoint, mp4 video, questionnaires, mp3s, photos and drawings, word and pdf files). There were also StoryJumper publications, Google.docs, Google forms, Google Slides Adobe Spark","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Collaborating for a mathematical challenges with the purpose to analyze the virus\u2019 spread. Better The three partner teachers involved in the Understanding: project met online several times before starting the project to plan the activities and Maths Modeling and agreed to use PBL approach for the challenging project. eTwinning For students it was very important to by Enrica Maragliano, understand how Math models are useful in everyday life, as witnessed by this pandemic Benedicte Leduc and situation, and, at the same time, their participation to the project allowed them to Elisabet Mas de les become more responsible and informed citizens, accustomed to verifying the sources Valls of information before believing what is often published on social networks. With the outbreak of the pandemic in the world we often hear about \\\"exponential Furthermore, as happens in eTwinning growth\\\", \\\"Rt factor\\\", \\\"peak of contagions\\\". All projects, students developed and consolidated these concepts, used in Medicine, are typical soft skills, such as the ability to work remotely of Mathematics, which has become one of the in a foreign language with peers they have most fashionable disciplines in recent times. never met, the usage of ICT in a conscious Actually, mathematical concepts are often way, and the awareness of other educational used. Sometimes in informal contexts, realities. This latter skill is particularly speakers are not fully aware of the meaning of important in a period of pandemic in which we the terms they use and of the theories have often been confined to home due to the underlying them. health measures set up by governments. Therefore, it is important for students to learn The Maths curricula in the three partner in a critical and scientifically correct way which schools have significant differences and mathematical theories underlie the choices of students\u2019 backgrounds were diverse. However, governments, which are often not understood all curriculum included exponential functions by the population that therefore, may not and this concept was defined as the axis of follow the indications adequately. YoSWoT\u2019s mathematical analysis. For all the For this reason, an international collaboration was launched between three schools, Liceo Classico e Linguistico G.Mazzini (Genova, Italy), Cit\u00e9 Scolaire Broc\u00e9liande (Guer, France) and Prat Educaci\u00f3 (Barcelona, Spain), who founded the eTwinning project Young Scientists Working Together (YoSWoT), in which students aged 16-18 faced some","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter involved classes, the project was part of their Intentionally, each team had to deal with a CLIL learning, and for the Italian students it different approach to their knowledge of the was also important for the PCTO path (Percorsi curriculum, in order to create a kind of a per le Competenze Trasversali e jigsaw. In this way, they learned to work l'Orientamento). cooperatively and, at the end of the project, they became one great European class. The teachers, after a brainstorming session, identified 4 driving questions, one for each To scaffold students to interact and come up international team in which the students were with a common answer to their driving organized. Here they are: question, teachers prepared a TwinSpace page - What does \u201cflatten the curve\u201d mean? And per each team, with steps aimed at improving how Math is helping? scientific awareness on one hand but also at - When must measures be taken to contain encouraging interaction and mutual aid on the the spread of a virus? The importance of other. Some teams worked very well from the contact tracing and how to identify reliable beginning, while some others had to warm up indicators. and be more supported in their work. The final - Can we learn from the past? Can models of outcome would have been an infographic old pandemics be useful to avoid making poster, with the specification of the acquired errors and saving lives? knowledge and the reasoned answer to the - How can we model the spread of the virus initial driving question. within a group? In each class there was a debate with pupils and, once they were aware of each of them, according to their interests and own sensibility, they naturally split into 4 international teams. As a first step, an ice-breaking video- conference was organized to put the students in contact: the international teams had to interact in various activities (choice of logo, choice of team name among some famous female scientists and collaboration to solve a quiz with non-googleable questions about partner schools' towns). In the TwinSpace pages, teachers gave some advices to help students about \u201chow to work\u201d: 1. Read carefully the driving questions for their group-challenge. 2. Look for some relevant bibliographic material: teachers proposed some interesting websites, videos and documents, but the international teams could find something","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter interesting and suitable to their purpose by themselves too. 3. Distribute the tasks within the team and share ideas using the team forum. 4. Use some collaborative tool to prepare the infographic poster. 5. Keep asking their teachers if they had doubts or were stuck. Students benefited from two very interesting and rich online lectures, aimed to provide them a new perspective with outside views, coming from two different fields of expertise: \u25cf Dr. Marinella Lavelli, pediatrician and expert in immunology, gave a lecture on \\\"Covid19: clinical and epidemic profile\\\". Dr. Alejandra Caba\u00f1a, Professor of Mathematics at the Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, Coordinator of the Bachelor's Degree in Applied Statistics gave a lecture \\\"An elementary tour through the mathematical modelling of Covid-19\\\". These conferences were an opportunity to open students\u2019 minds to new horizons: they could really understand how fields that apparently had no links are in fact intimately connected. In order to share the results of their job, students produced collaborative infographics, which are accessible to teachers and parents and the outside community. In each page of the TwinSpace, students also provided a summary of what they wrote in the Google.Doc files, that, together with the TwinSpace forum, were the places where they exchanged the information and made decisions.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The experience was successful and the strengths and weaknesses identified can be useful for defining future collaborations. All the information about the project can be found on the project\u2019s TwinSpace at this link: https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/139113\/home Enrica Maragliano is a Maths and Physics teacher and a passionate eTwinning and Scientix ambassador. She likes trying new teaching approaches for her students so they are challenged and learn many soft skills, not only in her subjects' but also about cross curricular topics. To conclude the project, a final online meeting Benedicte Leduc is a Maths and CLIL (mathematics and was held: the four teams presented their sciences in English) teacher, also intervening in continuing results discussing successful aspects and education. She appreciates working collaboratively, trying pending works. Not involved teachers and new teaching approaches either at any scale, from her stakeholders attended the meeting, asking school to the stimulating eTwinning environment. questions to the teams about their work. As the last part of the learning process, all the pupils challenged themselves in a Kahoot! game, useful to the teachers to informally test students\u2019 knowledge. Elisabet Mas de les Valls is a STEM teacher in Barcelona, Spain. She is interested in showing the human side of STEM and thus engaging students. She loves creating experiences that emphasize the contributions of science and technology to our society. Her challenge is to combine these cooperative experiences with the deep work of helping students to feel comfortable when solving individually a calculation in front of a white piece of paper. One of the objectives of the project was empowering women: gender aspects were considered in the decision of team names, in the lectures given by experts and by showing the many girls involved they could undertake STEM careers in their future.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter Creativity in the Classroom by Adina Veronica Godja This project won the first prize at the National In my school, the project took place in the Competition \\\"eTwinning Prizes\\\", the category 2018-2019 school year. From the very of educational units in rural areas, school year beginning, the project founders established 2018-2019. Creativity is often seen as a the working procedure and schedule of mysterious process, which characterizes a activities using the eTwinning communication small number of brilliant artists and inventors space. The communication was also made in the great moments of inspiration. One of through email, project journal, Facebook. Each the basic reasons for exploring creativity in teacher created a page with his or her name primary school is to identify various ways to and several subpages that name the activities stimulate and reward the creative behaviour of carried out. Then came a presentation of students in school. We anticipatedthat the students and the school, holidays and outcome of such methods will materialize in traditions specific to the area where each the transfer of this style of approach to reality partner comes from. Preschoolers, students and in areas that involve solving and teachers carried out joint activities. extracurricular tasks. In this project, the first grade students from Once\u0219ti Secondary School, Maramure\u0219, together with partners from other countries, who took part in the project, had as common topics: Green Week, Winter Holidays, traditions and customs from us and the project partners, origami week, eTwinning Day, Internet Safety Day.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter We carried out the activities of documenting the language of communication was English, it and presenting the information about the was more difficult for participants to meet in Green Week, Internet Safety, our traditions the eTwinning virtual space to determine the and customs and of the project partners: the type of research they wanted to carry out, the national cuisine, the national dress, the dance strategy and the tools to use. Communication specific to each country. In the Romanian with partners was done through the Internet. Language and Literature class I read non- A group was created by the founders on FB- literary and scientific texts (encyclopaedias, Creativity in the classroom. In order to internet ...) and I studied the informative exchange information, together with the content of the text. The students were put in students we entered the eTwinning platform, various communication situations such as: we watched the uploaded videos or photos and product presentation, evaluation of the work we designed messages of appreciation of the of other colleagues. I watched various activity carried out by the partner students. educational movies on YouTube about internet Each partner looked for materials needed to safety, traditions and customs from different inform or carry out practical work, uploading parts of the world, at different times of the them on the platform so that they could be year. For the Winter Holidays, I made greeting used by others. Then we talked about the cards for the project partners. I learned about types of activities and ways of organizing, internet safety in code hours. They learned carrying out. At the beginning of the project, about the dances specific to other peoples. I the project plan was uploaded to Google Drive proudly presented the Romanian tradition and so that it could be completed by the partners, together with my parents I prepared food a survey was conducted to choose the logo, specific to Romania. An important emphasis the project mascot, a Google document to was placed on teamwork. The students were plan our activities, a final questionnaire to see involved in each activity and we emphasized efficiency and satisfaction of project the development of creativity, of the spirit of participants. With the help of StoryJumper, a observation, of the children's imagination. In book with international cuisine was made, evaluating students' portfolios, we used including various culinary recipes. Children essays, drawings, paintings, PPT liked the online meetings with teachers and presentations, worksheets, photos. Computer students from other countries the most, and digital skills were achieved through the because they were able to communicate in use of applications in the project. We English, they found that they have things in stimulated students to get involved in common with others, even though they are community life through joint activities with from different countries. parents and organizing presentations of various products: traditional food specific to From the very beginning, I fulfilled the tasks the Once\u0219ti area, Maramure\u0219. The students set by the founders of the project. I looked for were inspired to write messages, greeting the activities, I prepared materials that I cards to other students in the project and thus uploaded in the virtual space of the project, I developed skills to use the functional text. made proposals that were debated together Sports skills were achieved by conducting with the other partner teachers on Facebook. competitions with sports themes, dances that gave students the opportunity to develop motor skills. For communication and coordination between teachers, we used Facebook and e-mail. The founders of the project established from the beginning the working procedure and the calendar of activities using the eTwinning communication space, Facebook, phone calls, text messages, online meetings. Given that","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter We have collaborated with other countries by I watched safety movies on the internet, green involving students in the fulfilment of common week in Romania and in the world, different products. games from different parts of the world, about the gastronomy of other peoples, our folk The Book of Letters: costumes and the world. We used various Vimeo programs for the tablet or phone with which we made the presentation films of the designed activities. With a video projector in the classroom, each participant in the project was able to watch the videos posted by colleagues. The children were looking forward to seeing images from the activities of the project partners. They were curious to find out more about their colleagues from other countries, to see how their learning activities are carried out. They were happy when they discovered that their drawings contributed to the creation of the e-book. My students watched the project activities of I read the new paradigm of education and the all the members and learned so much about opening and presentation of the new learning these peoples. I took care of the Facebook style picked my interest, based on page of the project. Our last meeting was understanding and discovery, on choosing online on FB, where we shared our options and learning new information and impressions of the project, we told funny concepts, the classroom was changed with things that happened during it. various places of learning: nature, museums, planetariums, theatres, libraries, gyms\u2026 As We used our cell phone and tablet in class to mentors and partners in education, we helped create and play puzzles. our students understand learning and make decisions about the next steps, based on understanding. Active learning in a supportive environment gave them the opportunity to reflect, to progress. Students developed interpersonal communication skills, the ability to work in a team, but also to solve tasks independently, the ability to search for information on a given topic, but also to present this information clearly and attractively. They did fantastic experiments and simulated the life of an astronaut and researcher, they became attracted to sports,","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter technology and science, but also to English. Students as They become responsible and organized. Students shared their understanding of space Responsible Citizens science and technology with colleagues, family, and their community. Aware of the Partners from Albania, Lithuania, Macedonia Technology received National Quality Certificate https:\/\/twinspace.etwinning.net\/68541\/home. by Iva Naranda The objectives and activities of the project were developed in accordance with the Introduction Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and the curriculum of the In this paper the eTwinning project Micro different countries for the living languages of circuits for Mega solutions will be described, levels A1 + -A2 \/ -B1. with the focus on the micro:bit activities implemented during the project in 2nd Primary The project used all the tools available in the School \u010cakovec, Croatia. As one of the project eTwinning virtual space. The activities included founders, I will describe the main ideas and all applications (forum, project log, project results. I am extremely grateful to my documents, videos). We also used a range of co founder Georgia Lascaris from Greece for Padlet collaboration tools. I used the software all great ideas implemented in this project and (PowerPoint, mp4 video, questionnaires, the huge contribution to the project. Althought mp3s, photos and drawings, word and .pdf several partners from various countries joined files). There were also StoryJumper the project, due the complicated school year in publications, Google docs, Google forms, and the era of pandemic some schools partially the Google Translate tool was used. The participated in the project activities, some videos published in the project log are on partners gave up. However, together with a YouTube. These documents are in accordance group of partners from four Greek schools with intellectual property law (original (2nd Primary School of Nea Erythraia, 8th New drawings and videos, with parental Filadelfeia Primary School, Aristotelio College authorizations for photographs of minor Thessaloniki and 2nd High School of Ioannina students). For communication and better Intercultural Education) we did an outstanding coordination between teachers, a Facebook job and continuously collaborated throughout group was created the school year. The project was implemented https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/20112441 in the school year 2020\/2021, with various 39138408. collaborative activities that were carried out partly in school, partly online. Without Adina Veronica Godja is a teacher at \u0218coala Gimnazial\u0103 intending to describe the whole project in Once\u0219ti, Maramure\u0219, Romania and an eTwinning detail, I will highlight the activities in which ambassador. students used the BBC micro:bit. Aims Through this project we wanted to help students make connections between the classroom and the world around them and solve real-life problems by using technology.","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter The project introduced students to the BBC (SDGs), the Goal 3 Good health and well- micro:bit and the possibilities of this being. technology. The aims of this project were learning to code with MS MakeCode, Together with our project partners we understand the new technologies such as participated in the Code Week 4 All Challenge. Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and In February 2021, our school was awarded Machine Learning, developing digital with two CodeWeek certificates, Certificate of competence, students skills of teamwork and Excellence in Coding Literacy, 2020 EU Code collaboration, give students the opportunity to Week 4 All Challenge and Super Organiser express their creativity, develop critical Certificate. thinking, coding and communicative skills. In addition, through this project we wanted to Exploring the sensors encourage students to use a foreign language (English language) to communicate, exchange We exchanged ideas with partners and that and collaborate with peers from different took us to the next activity, within the STEM countries. To learn about the importance of Day in November. My students explored light eSafety and safe use of the Internet was also sensors on micro:bit. We worked on smart city one of the project goals. In my school the lighting, an activity shared during Code Week project was integrated into the syllabi of by our Greek partners, and linked to the Goal Computer Science for 6th graders (age 12). 12 Sustainable consumption and production, The participants of an extracurricular activity and solving the real world problems using called eTwinners also participated in the technology (Technology4Good). The tasks for project, and in one part we achieved the the students consisted of coding the micro:bit collaboration with our school robotics group. to respond adequately to the lighting. Extracurricular activities provided us the opportunity to realise more projects activities. Micro:bit as a seismograph Let's meet the BBC micro:bit and During November 2020, together with peers MakeCode from two Greek schools, students participated in activities on the occasion of the World Within the eTwinning project Micro circuits for Science Day for Peace and Development, Mega solutions my students worked on many which is celebrated on 10th November. It was activities using the BBC micro:bit. We started an opportunity to try to increase students' in October on the occassion of the CodeWeek interest in science, understand her importance 2020 with introduction to micro:bit and some in achieving the SDGs, especially Goal 11 simple examples. Students were introduced to Sustainable cities and communities and apply the MS MakeCode and they made the first steps with the micro:bit. As a second part of CodeWeek activities students participated in Virtual Pet workshop. They made a virtual pet which shows how it feels when we feed it, when we play with it and when we try to feed and play with it at the same time, while all the remaining time the micro:bit displays a thumbnail of the selected pet (animal). In addition to the coding solution itself, students had to create a mask for micro:bit, which required precision in work and provided an opportunity to express creativity. On the extracurricullar activity students coded micro:bit as a step counter, what can be related to the Sustainable Development Goals","Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2021 Newsletter technology to address global challenges micro:bit projects created during this project, (Technology4Good). We have chosen listened to traditional Christmas songs and earthquakes as the main topic. Using several exchanged virtual gifts via the micro:bit examples of recent earthquakes in Croatia, lottery. The meeting passed in a Christmas Greece and Turkey, students were made and joyful mood, even during a lockdown. aware of natural disasters and earthquakes and the need for safe, sustainable and Micro:bit as a password generator inclusive cities. We conducted an activity in which the micro:bit simulates a seismograph Next micro:bit activity was on the occassion of for which we used the Seismograph Activity the Safer Internet Day. The activity consisted guide available on the MakeCode page. of creating a password generator using micro:bit. Our activities were based on the We continue our project work by working on lesson Introduction to cyber security published the challenges, preparing the challenges for by Micro:bit Educational Foundation our partners and solving the challenge got microbit.org. from partners. The challenges consisted of coding the micro:bit to remotely turn on an Micro:bit and SDGs earthquake alarm, audio and visual. We believe it can be useful for people with hearing Since March we have been dealing with topics or vision impairments, so we linked this whose focus was on the SDGs and the activity to the International Day of Persons application of micro:bit to solve problems from with Disabilities, on 3rd December. Students everyday life. Our activities were based on the prepared questions for the Kahoot quiz do your :bit materials. My students chosed \u201eMicro:bit as a seismograph\u201c and created from three activities offered, one for each of digital posters on the topic seismology with the three classes: Spot the species!, Light-up the tool PosterMyWall. fishing nets and A sea turtle safe beach light. In the activity Spot the species! students My partners Georgia Lascaris and Stavroula consider the wildlife in our county (Me\u0111imurje Skiada from Greece worked out this activities county) and consider how important it is. in more details and prepared an educational Students created a micro:bit counter to record scenario on earthquakes and micro:bit three different species, fox, wild rabbit and roe \u201cEarthquakes and Safe Cities 4 all with Steam\u201d deer. In addition, the activity Spot the species! and presented the scenario at the Panhellenic provided us with the opportunity to present to & International Conference on \u201cSTE(A)M project partners from other countries some Educators & Education\u201d. local wildlife living in our county. Activities Light-up fishing nets and A sea turtle safe Christmas activities beach light took us outside our county, to the sea. In activity Light-up fishing nets students In December students participated in the Hour learned about the problem of bycatch and the of Code. As a extracurricular activity, during potential solutions, and they created a the online lessons students worked on the prototype light-up fishing net using micro:bit. activity Merry Micro:bits. Furthermore, on the In activity A sea turtle safe beach light Computer Science classes my 6th graders students discovered about sea turtles and recorded micro:bit playing two famous tunes, created a prototype sea turtle safe beach light Jingle Bells and We wish you a Merry using micro:bit\u2019s LEDs. Christmas. This activity was proposed by our partners from Greece and it was realised During March 2021, there was a collaboration online during a lockdown. between two extracurricular activities in our school achieved, a robotics group and An Christmas online meeting with partners eTwinners. We used the Fischertechnik from Greece and Lithuania was held. During \\\"Robotics Set micro:bit\\\". The micro:bit activity this online meeting we looked at some consisted of creating a simulation of smart"]