Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2011 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------you can read more in the special section of the
Newsletter entitled ‗Web 2.0 Compass Area‘.
We have been having many irons in the fire this
year, and I would like to thank everybody for their
involvement and dedication – it has been an
exciting year, and we look forward to the years to
come and to the contributions old (by now) and
new members can offer!
THANK YOU!
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For our next task, we brought to light the fact that
one of the most important and most generous
features of eTwinning concept is learning by means
of cooperation. However, some uncertainties and
questions had aroused recently, namely: are we in
fact promoting cooperative learning in our
activities, or just doing traditional group work
thinking of it as cooperative learning? The challenge
we brought up was to look again at the 9
characteristics of Cooperative Learning, and
illustrate one of those features with practical
examples, classroom situations, project
phases or possible scenarios in different learning
settings. A list of samples of good practice emerged
– valuable models at our disposal to indeed turn
Cooperative Learning into reality in our eTwinning
projects!
We are currently presenting our favourite eTwinning
projects using Screenr in the eTwinning Vitrine.
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eTwinning Life
By Maria Georgiadou
Maria Georgiadou is a teacher of French at ΕΚΤΟ
ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟ in Rhodes, Greece and a Greek
eTwinning ambassador. She is also the coordinator
of the eTwinning Francophone Group.
My first contact with eTwinning was in 2006, when
a colleague of mine told me about it!
All the time we have been reading the blog entries
on the Homepage (and some of us have rated some
of them) and voting up or down comments, we
have commented on blog entries and comments in
the group, we have stopped to read the Group
Guidelines (from time to time), we have
commented on the cartoons in the sub-group
entitled ―Cartoon of the Month‖ and on the video
clips in the sub-group entitled ―Video Clip of the
Month‖.
As I was really bored by the situation in the class,
always repeating the same things, without having
the impression of doing anything useful, I quickly
subscribed and became an eTwinner, a very
enthusiastic one!
At first, we did not have the possibility to go deep
inside in what eTwinning means, because my
partner and I were very, very new! Our
collaboration was mainly an exchange of sch