Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Holidays and Mindmapping
by Reneta Raicheva
Holidays and Mindmapping is an eTwinning project
that started in 2012. My colleague Darina and I
decided to share our experience about Bulgarian
traditions and English customs through mind maps.
We suggested our idea to Gina and Mariangela from
Italy and the work began.
The aim of the project is using mindmapping as an
innovative method in classroom work in order to
learn English. Holidays are an important part of our
life, so we decided to present them in a new way through brainstorming and mindmapping. We think
that it is a good way to motivate children to learn
more about national and international holidays and
to share their ideas with their partners from other
countries.
Our pupils and Italian children made beautiful mind
maps of the famous holidays in Bulgaria, Italy and
England. They created wonderful videos on
Photopeach, Photosnack, Tripadvisor, SpicyNodes,
Kizoa, Capzles and YouTube. Children understood
that English is easy through important words,
interesting photos and drawings. They also created
their own beautiful mind maps. You can see their
products here:
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p80896
The project has been awarded with both national
and European Quality Labels. We are very proud of
it!
Here are some great children’s mind maps. Hope
that you will like them!
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