Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Getting Involved in eTwinning
By Inge De Cleyn
Inge De Cleyn is the coordinator of vocational
training at Sint-Janshof De Ranken vzw in
Mechelen, Belgium and a Belgian eTwinning
ambassador.
I have been a member of eTwinning only since
2008. I had some students at our special needs
school that studied an extra year and I wanted to
give them something special, something they never
did during their studies.
Our students have no language lessons and they
really are interested in English lessons, so I thought
it was a good idea to do something with that. And
eTwinning was the perfect method for it.
Finding a partner was not easy, and it took a long
time before we really started, but once the project
was launched we had a lot of fun.
We took a lot of pictures and we worked with very
easy English sentences and Google translate. I
discovered that a lot of my students had more
knowledge about the English language than I
thought. They learned a lot of words from TV.
My first project was very short and I learned a lot
about expectations, deadlines and more of that, but
it was a great experience.
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Starting an eTwinning Project
By Paulino Tamayo
Paulino Tamayo is a teacher of English, Science and
Art at Colegio Puente III in El Astillero, Spain,
responsible for young learners’ classes and
materials development, and in charge of a number
of eTwinning projects in his school, helped by
colleagues.
To me, Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) and related multimedia
applications are a wonder of the age we live in.
They have brought about dramatic changes in the
ways we think, learn, communicate, access
information and use our leisure time in
unprecedented ways and at an unparalleled pace.
This visually sophisticated world of colourful
images, sound and animation at only a few clicks
away attracts pupils like a powerful magnet, and
can frequently succeed in engaging and motivating
them where other traditional media, such as books,
may fai