Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A Magic Touch…
by Figen Oguzmert
How I involved the students?
The pace of change in education is accelerating day
by day. Since our students are digital natives, it is
inevitable for a teacher to keep her style of
teaching up to date.
As I believe in the effectiveness of using technology
in class, eTwinning helped me a lot to improve
myself personally and professionally with my
students.
“Education is not filling of a pail but the
lighting of a fire.” W. B. Yeats.
My eTwinning journey started in 2010. It really lit a
fire in our minds. For us eTwinning is a window
opening and connecting our classes to the world
Why I wanted to involve my school in
eTwinning?
My school is a vocational and technical school so
the interest of students for the English classes was
at the minimum level. The approach of the school
for language teaching was classical. I thought my
school and my students needed a change and a
new perspective for our language classes. Our first
project was like a magic touch to my lessons. I was
so curious to learn everything about eTwinning! I
contacted our NSS to ask some questions I had had
in mind and I learnt that our first project was a
success and I was invited for the National
eTwinning annual meeting to make a presentation
about it - it was chosen one of the best examples.
I believe in the benefits of the technology but my
school was so poorly equipped in means of
technology so it seemed to be a challenge at first
sight.
Involving the students was not very easy in my
case because one of the challenges was not having
a wireless connection at school, and in class we di @