Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------in 2011, the European Year of Volunteering) in
Oradea and Camelia Hoara (Children and Nature) in
Bucharest, as well as the Romanian NSS
coordinators.
Just like a GPS guides one along the way, so have I
been guided with patience and competence by my
colleagues, to whom I address now my sincere
thanks.
I have had the opportunity to participate in projects
coordinated by exceptional teachers in European
schools from Spain (Cecilia Mariscal Cantizano,
eTwinning ambassador), Greece (Paraskevi Belogia,
eTwinning ambassador), Belgium (Sabine Van Den
Bergh), Great Britain (Rebecca O’Neill), Lithuania
(Neringa Stravinski), Croatia (Ksenija VidmarNincevic) – from all I have learnt a lot, and so have
my students.
We conducted numerous FlashMeetings, I learnt
how to use programs of which he had never
thought we could use before (PhotoPeach,
PictureTrail, Kizoa, PicoVico, SmileBox, Picasa,
TripWow, Voki and many more), we learnt how to
draw and post materials on various sites (Calameo,
Wikis, Panoramio, YouTube, Didactic.ro, Facebook,
Talk Fusion etc.), then transfer the links to the
eTwinning site.
Can you imagine what performance means with
students who are patients, admitted into a recovery
hospital? These are my students indeed, with whom
I implemented many projects!
Can you imagine what FlashMeeting activities mean
with an Internet connection at school? Under the
circumstances, we had to conduct our scheduled
activities either at my home, where I turned a room
into a classroom, or in institutions in town as we
were often offered a helping hand.
For our children, these outcomes meant a
synergistic effect on their health recovery and for
regaining confidence in their ability to be useful and
overcome their handicap.
For all these results I would like to thank all staff,
students, teachers, headteachers, school
inspectors, all employees of the partner shcools,
from whom I learnt tremendously, and especially
my collaborator in Lithuania, Neringa Stravinski,
without whom the project The Harmony of Nature
could not have raised to such a level. She made us
work incessantly and do a high-quality project!
It has not been easy, but challenging, interesting,
memorable.
I always took care in preparing in English, in
French, to meet the challenge. And many projects
received quality certificates (Les phenomenes
geologiques – coordinators: Sabine Van Den Bergh
and Juliana Beading – we obtained the Quality
Label in 2011; Tasty Flags – coordinator: Ksenija
Vidmar-Nincevic – we obtained the Quality Label in
2012; The Harmony of Nature, dedicated to the
European Year of Citizens – we obtained 5 Quality
Labels in 3 countries).
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