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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Within a few days we discussed, explained and agreed about the way we would work on the project, the main issues & activities that the two schools were going to have in common and the form our final project outcome would have. Before the ending of last school year we had already finalized the project of the following one! That helped us a lot during the implementation of the project, because in some cases we had to rearrange our schedule, without losing our goal! Project implementation 7 students (6th grade) and 2 teachers were involved in the project from the Turkish school who wrote articles. The situation was a little bit different in Greece: 31 students (8th and 9th grade – alone or in groups) wrote the newspaper articles and worked with the students’ group, who took part in a cultural project named “scripta manent”, in which the students wrote articles in Greek to create another newspaper for our school AND an eBook about incidents or/and significant memories of the students’ grandparents and relatives about the WW II. They interviewed them and the “results” would be published in the eBook! We combined these two projects and worked together with my colleague from the “scripta manent”-project producing articles in both Greek and German. The “common” article Our first step was to present the participants of the project, our students, to start the project. The Turkish students wrote a text about themselves (name, age, hobbies, etc.) and sent it to the Greek school. And after that the Greeks followed. The Turkish students were younger than the Greeks, but that was not a worth-mentioning problem for either the project or the participants. The Greek students were accustomed to using Web 2.0 tools in small projects, which we did during the German lesson since I insisted to include in their school curriculum to learn the use and usefulness of some Web 2.0 tools ; that is why they introduced themselves by using such tools: 1) http://www.thinglink.com/scene/372407633895751 681 (9th grade students) & 2) http://www.thinglink.com/scene/372655327272763 394 (8th grade students) Presentation of the schools and the city of each participant followed. All the results were made by the students (alone or in groups): 1) The school -> http://www.thinglink.com/scene/372730191132229 632 & 2) The city from the students’ perspective > http://www.thinglink.com/scene/372753727251021 824 The Greek students had also created exercises to enable them to see if the students from Turkey read their contributions (I gave them that idea, because they kept on asking if the Turkish students reacted on their work or if they had even read/seen their work!): 1) http://learningapps.org/display?v=nrnc5w8j (about the presentation of the 9th grade) 2) http://learningapps.org/display?v=zujf0d8a (about the presentation of the 8th grade) 3) http://learningapps.org/display?v=bowjaomj 4) http://learningapps.org/display?v=b985d05k [The exercises 3 and 4 were about the school presentation]. Greek (and some German) & Turkish recipes were also included in our newspaper. The Greek students used again web 2.0-tool for their cooking suggestions: http://www.thinglink.com/scen