eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 2 eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 2 | Page 15

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2012 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------and first place in the European eTwinning Prizes 2012 for pupils aged 5 to 12. Our students participated in the eTwinning camp organised in a beautiful place in Turkey, and met their project friends face to face – unforgettable experience! Artful Thinking and eTwinning By Xanthie Chouliara, in collaboration with: Ioanna Komninou Mary Frenzou Interviewer: What advice would you give to fellow eTwinners eager to develop similarly successful projects? Renata Wojtas: All you really need is a nice topic and a good, enthusiastic team. Together you can build on ideas, create a project, make it grow, flourish and bear fruit. Listen to the words of advice sang by our students: “eTwinning is the beginning of friendships and adventures, different countries and different schools coming together, it all happens at etwinning.net, so find a project and link to your partner on the Internet!” Just join and enjoy! Interviewer: Thank you, and good luck in all your future endeavours! Xanthie Chouliara is a Primary School Head Teacher at Primary School of Highland Zone, Zakynthos Island, Greece and a Greek NSS member. She is also “International Coordinator”, “ “teacher4europe 2012 ”and the creator of the “Head eT” group for Greek head teachers and “Net.gr” Greek network about creativity. Ioanna Komninou is a member of the Greek NSS, and member of the teachers’ pedagogical team. Mary Frentzou is a teacher of English as a foreign language, an eTwinner since 2005 and member of the Hellenic NSS. Recently a lot of Greeks educators have started implementing the Artful thinking in their eTwinning projects thus improving the quality of the projects which got awards in many categories of the National and European eTwinning Awards. 15