Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2013 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Why Using eTwinning?
by Maria Alexandrina Daian
met on the eTwinning platform, and the rest is only
communication!
I have been using the eTwinning platform for
several years. At first it was a challenge for me, but
after that the platform became a very useful tool in
my school activities. In April 2012 I was at
eTwinning Annual Conference, in Berlin. One of the
speakers said that “teachers who connect with
other teachers connect better with their students”,
and I realized that these words are very true and I
applied them in everyday life. Communication is the
key in our school activities, and this is the reason I
use the eTwinning platform. Communication
between teachers and students from the same
school or from schools from different countries. For
me, knowing new people and sharing ideas on the
eTwinning platform is the most important aspect.
At the beginning, we had a common meeting in
Romania, at our school - School No. 4 from Sibiu, in
October 2012. The project products were great:
posters, photos, drawings and a beautiful scrapbook
called Unity in Diversity, like the official motto of
the European Union.
And communication is the most important thing in
one of our last projects, called Can different roots
lead us to a common future? The project aim is to
develop a strategy to integrate school life of
secondary schools by involving international
act ivities and mapping common roots and features
from the past, creating real connection among
students and sharing information concerning basic
facts about our countries, reflecting common links
and finding common path to future represent our
project objectives.
The project partners are my school, School No. 4
Sibiu from Romania, Gymnazium J.A. Komenskeho
Uhersky Brod from Czech Republic, Europaische
Schule Bertha-Von-Suttner (Gymnasium) Berlin
from Germany and Iis "G. Mazzatinti" - Sez. Liceo
Classico Gubbio from Italy. The founders are our
school and the school from the Czech Republic. We
And the most important part of our project is that
we are doing exchanges students and teachers
every year. We involved students’ families for our
exchange, during a week.
In April 2013 we had another common meeting in
Berlin. Our students worked at the project and they
also participated in a contest, imagining the ideal
European citizen. The project products were a
poster, a Prezi presentation and a programme for
an ideal European party. So, we learned about our
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