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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Mathematical Variety by Teodora Cosma The eTwinning community is a place where every teacher and every student is appreciated, valued, cherished. In a secure internet place, all the project members can collaborate on interactive activities directly. In the cyberspace of the eTwinning project one can add new members at any time during the entire activity. Each member of the virtual space, student or teacher, has the opportunity to create their own profile. Visibility of the project is ensured for all the duration of its achieving, regardless of the application used: blog, forums, wiki, document library, gallery, displaying web content, etc. Activities carried out for the eTwinning projects stimulate the retention for the training of the students, transfer of knowledge, their hope to learn to do something new, and their willingness to interact with other participants. Through contests and summative tests, students are assured that they really learned something and that they remember some knowledge. For two years, I founded the eTwinning educational project "Mathematical Variety": http://newtwinspace.etwinning.net/web/p58059/home, http://newtwinspace.etwinning.net/web/p84661/homepage. The project purpose is to highlight the varied formative range of the resolutive mathematical capabilities, the applicability of the mathematical knowledge of students in solving the problems of everyday life, fun problems, to achieve the educational multiple context of the school ”centered on the student” and the mathematical contest "Mathematical Variety", able to generate the opening of the school to the local community and to the eTwinning community. The first collaborative materials of the “Mathematical Variety” project were made using: 1) https://www.blogger.com, to create the blog of the project: http://mathematicalvariety.blogspot.ro; 2) http://www.wallwisher.com, for communication, notes and continuous assessment; 3) www.microsoft.com/word, for editing text, for the first articles. We achieved all the proposed objectives in both years, and I hope to accomplish a more efficient collaboration in the next school year. 44