Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------and... and... and... (on the society in general) and
we can become, with zero cost, with zero sponsors,
and zero other-other, EEMMCC - eTwin Educational
Mass Media Cultural Communicators.
song: ”Goodbye, goodbye, see you again/ Goodbye,
goodbye, see you, my friends!/ I had fun today,/ I
had fun today”...
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I described only a few captured moments from an
eTwinning activity of our project from this year ("I
am 2: In search of our historical identity"), the first
lesson built and held with the Italian partners
through ”Skype in the classroom” application.
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Through Our Opened Classroom Door
by Teodora Popescu
Look at this! Slowly, the classroom door opens.
Italian and Romanian students respond in choir to
the teacher’s greeting. "Good morning!" is the
children’s favorite song, and they sing together for
the beginning of a beautiful day. During the song
the pupils try to synchronize their movements and
they are close to success. They smile at each other.
”Do you remember Muzzy? Look at his photo! What
colour is he?”, asks the teacher Rossana from Italy.
”Green, like grass!” answers a Romanian girl who
has two red flowers in her cheeks... ”How is the
king of Gondoland?”, I ask the children. ”He is
strong like me!”, we hear a loud voice from an
Italian kid who is showing his muscles... ”What
about our castle from Italy?... What about our
church from Romania?... What about...?” The little
hands rise to each question. Something good
happens here! So many applauses... Through the
opened classroom door we hear yet an echo of the
For us, it was an amazing experience to teach and
learn, ”here and now”, in collaboration with
teachers and students from thousands of miles
away, to travel, to meet and explore new cultures
and traditions – all these, safely and without
expensive ”travel tickets”; we only needed: selfconfidence, a suitable eTwinning project, real
teamwork and collaboration, a bit of enthusiasm,
creativity and, of course, time.
Two years ago I wondered if my students with
special educational needs would be able to
participate in eTwinning projects with students from
other countries.
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