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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2012 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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