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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------EEMMCC – eTwin Educational Mass Media Cultural Communicators by Christina Drakopoulou “Even in times of crisis except to wonder what to do for her, it is meaningful to try to do what makes sense when there is no crisis” - Yiannis Alevizos, Teacher of Physics, Greece. Z OneStop, by ZVRS Knowledge is power and it is important to keep up to date with what is going on in the deaf and hearing impaired community. Z OneStop is a great app that has feeds for news, vlogs, blogs serving the deaf community, as well as a large directory of resources and services. If the user also has the Z4 Mobile app, this app will integrate with it, allowing the resource numbers to be called directly from their iDevice. This universal app also has links to general news and a companion website. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From poverty to the stupidity of the standard Mass Media, the elimination of extracurricular readings (e.g. literature), the absence of contact time between generations or the lack of creative time and contact with peers (especially young people who are constantly on their iPhones) have brought the famous result "we have no way of thinking." We the teachers are Mass Culture Media: we have so many hours every day, with 25 children per hour. These children talk to their parents etc but obviously school is to teach lessons that will be examined by the ministry and not to teach them what is wrongly omitted from teaching. Moreover, very few students- if something was not to be considered - would give any attention, and many students would be discussing anything while the teacher teaches just to lose lesson time. There is also the issue that at 16 teen