eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 3 eTwinning Visibility Newsletter no. 3 | Page 8

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------During these years I have worked together with partners I have met on the web, therefore I have realized how important it is to be able to work and exchange ideas and opinions with colleagues who live and work in contexts different from mine. and at school thinking about what they had to do in order to go on with their work and to be ready to carry out with the assigned tasks. In view of this approach, eTwinning has acquired a prominent place in my life as a teacher, who through the use of ICT, tries to let today’s pupils understand that school does not need only people who know, but it requires people who know how to do. Thanks to eTwinning, knowledge and skills find a common denominator to create the Europe of the third millennium. That is why interculturality has been and still remains a topic which I have always been involved in, teaching and learning my school subject, Geography. eTwinning has allowed me the possibility to turn it into a cross- cultural topic, able to overcome those kilometric distances among the young which sometimes do not exist, but are often present in their way of thinking, and looking at their future which is not always open to what Europe is asking of today’s young people. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The results that I have achieved in the latest years such as the national and European Quality Labels, and not least the European prize in which I was the protagonist in Berlin in 2012, have represented moments of great satisfaction with the work I have carried out, and which have eventually rewarded those who really believed in this experience. A note of merit is up for the kids, the real protagonists, for the long time spent both at home 8