Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2012 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Interview with Renata Wojtas,
2012 eTwinning Prize winner
Renata Wojtas, teacher of English as a foreign
language at Primary School no 32 in Bielsko-Biała,
Poland and Honorary Ambassador of eTwinning, is
one of the teachers awarded in Berlin at the Annual
eTwinning Conference in March 2012 for the
eTwinning project "The adventures of Twinnies
around the world". She was very kind and shared
her experience with us! Read the interview!
Interviewer: What is the main idea of your winning
project?
Renata Wojtas: Our project “The adventures of the
Twinnies around the world” became a fantastic
medium for motivating students. An adventure is
defined as being an exiting or unusual experience,
and therefore this is attractive for children. Our
virtual journey around the world involves learning
and discovering interesting facts about different
countries and cultures so the topic is valuable in
terms of education and pedagogy. Our pupils loved
the project and in fact, they didn’t even realise that
they were learning.
Interviewer: What did you do to make your project
visible?
Renata Wojtas: To make the project visible, we
tried to introduce our work to the whole school
community. We provided links to our project on our
school’s website, so anyone at any time could have
a look and see the progress of the project and how
it was developing. We also prepared special corners
and exhibitions in the classrooms or corridors, to
present photos and outcomes of our project. We
promoted our project by presenting it to the local
community during school’s open days or local
festivities: all students, teachers, parents,
grandparents, authorities and all guests.
Interviewer: What did your students enjoy most
about the project?
Renata Wojtas: Our student