Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2012 Newsletter
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Ups and Downs of My eTwinning
Journey
By Adil Tugyan
Adil Tugyan from Turkey is a teacher of English, an
active eTwinner since 2010, an eTwinning mentor
and sub-group moderator in the Creative Classroom
eTwinning Group. He has been running 20
eTwinning projects, and he is very good at ICT and
2.0 web tools.
I have participated in eTwinning since 2010, when
our directory of education organised a weekend
seminar in our town by an eTwinning ambassador.
The way he described eTwinning made me very
curious to explore this new world, and when the
seminar was over I went home and I immediately
registered. When I logged in, I tried all the buttons
on the portal to see how everything functioned . I
placed my ideas for my first project about music
and titled the project ’Regional Traditional Folk
Songs’. Soon a teacher in Denmark replied that he
was interested to start off a project with me, and I
was so enthusiastic! Then we formed our project
teams and started the work process. We the
Turkish team did a lot of work, but our partner
ended up doing nothing, and that was a