Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Before finishing, I would like to admit that
eTwinning is for me, above all, an open door to
meet, communicate and collaborate with people
FOR LIFE, not until the end of a project!
I am so happy to have friends all over the world!
Thank you.
Mihai Calalb. Thus, before the official opening of
eTwinning Plus in March 2013, I was already
registered on the platform, the first registered
teacher from Republic of Moldova (as I later found
out from our coordinator). I got registered to one of
the available courses, i.e. ”The pedagogical value of
eTwinning projects”, a course that made me much
richer, as I found out so many useful things, tools
to be used in the classroom, that I need my whole
life to use all of them, but technology evolves, and
we need to keep pace with everything. How would
we do that without eTwinning?
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My eTwinning Odyssey
by Tatiana Popa
My friendship with the eTwinning educational
collaboration platform began at the end of winter,
more exactly, when I discovered it on the site of
our Ministry of Education. A young teacher, full of
enthusiasm, always looking for something new for
her pupils, found exactly what she was looking for –
a place that abounds in ideas for collaboration
projects, a place where a teacher can permanently
grow professionally, where Lifelong Learning is at
home, where the teachers are so eager to share
their experience with the new-comers that I do not
know if there is anyone not wanting to embrace this
friendly, open-minded, experienced community that
looks towards everything that is new in the
pedagogical field!
Thus, during my eTwinning odyssey, I discovered a
project that suited me, a short-term one, as we
were at the end of the school year, and I joined it,
together with my pupils. The project ”Let’s
celebrate Easter together”,was initiated by Dorota
Narowska from Poland and Efi Karagianni from
Greece, and later it was joined by schools from
Croatia, Romania and Republic of Moldova. It was
an unforgettable experience, with friendly teachers
and active pupils, we all made new friends,
discovered new places on the map, enlarged our
horizons. What else could motivate our pupils to
study more, or us, the teachers, to put all our heart
into our profession?
I found it difficult to register, as my country was
still not included in the eTwinning family, but the
coordinators from eTwinning Romania sent the
information quickly to our country coordinator,
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