Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
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By Paulien du Fosse
Paulien du Fosse is a Biology teacher at CSG Willem
van Oranje in Oud-Beijerland, Netherlands and a
Dutch eTwinning ambassador.
When I registered on eTwinning, no one on my
school was able to tell me how it worked. So I just
started pushing some buttons on the eTwinning site
and gradually I made my way. Within a short time I
did not only find partners for my own project, but I
also joined some running projects of the others.
I have one good example for the project ―Buon
Compleanno Italia‖: we presented a trailer (it is
here:
http://www.universalsubtitles.org/it/videos/6f5P58a
gq9Sd/) and we are very happy about the visit on
our project.
When you know how, the site is user-friendly and
an easy way to make contact with teachers from all
over Europe. Because it is so much fun to do
projects on European level for students as well as
teachers and it also adds an extra dimension to the
lessons, I wanted to make my colleagues
enthusiastic too by showing them the results of
several projects. As a result, we will use the recipes
from different European countries (from a project
about eating habits in Europe) in an European
project on our school. And in addition, we will let
our students design bags made of old clothing
during an environmental project (based on a
Romanian fashion show of ecological clothing).
This is a technique I learned during the last
Learning Event I followed.
I thank you very much, and I advise you to have a
look at the suggestions you can find on the
eTwinning site, at the project kits there, the
Teachers‘ Rooms, the Groups and the Learning
Events - you will easily find them on the homepage
of your desktop eTwinning.
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So, just because of my enthusiasm other teachers
got indirectly involved with eTwinning. As the
students like this way of getting acquainted with
youngsters all over Europe too, I expect it won‘t
take long before the first colleagues will ask how
they can find a partner or project on the eTwinning
site themselves. I will gladly tell them which
buttons to push and how to make contact and their
enthusiasm will spread from one teacher to
another. Consequently, more and more teachers
will get involved in eTwinning. And as the first
eTwinner of our school I proudly laid the foundation
of that.
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