Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------part in a training workshop in Portugal. In 2010, I
also ended my project “The meaning of colours”, a
project that filled our hearts with colour, emotion,
but also with disappointment as it did not get an
eTwinning prize.
Being a leader of a teachers’ group, I have tried to
persuade as many teachers as possible to take part
in eTwinning projects, and I can say that my effort
was successful. School No 9 “Nicolae Orghidan” in
Brasov received the name of “eTwinning Embassy
2011” and the first prize in the National Campaign
“The eTwinning Embassy in My School”.
For years now I have participated in many projects,
as their founder or as a partner. These projects give
us the opportunity to meet wonderful teachers, to
practice a foreign language, to communicate with
European students, to know other educational
systems, to make a change in our way of teaching
and even in our educational system.
When you participate in eTwinning projects, you
experience different feelings: the joy to receive a
message from another teacher, the sadness when
you notice that some teachers register in a project
but they do not contribute with anything, the
appreciation of your ideas by the other partners,
the recognition of the value of your projects in
other countries and, sometimes, the
disappointment that in your own country these
ideas are not considered important.
After these five years, I have other expectations,
and this is quite natural. Every person wants
something else, after achieving a goal. Now, I find
it really easy to carry out an eTwinning project, to
participate in training activities in the Learning Lab,
to involve generations of children in these projects
and to open new horizons for them. Moreover, my
dream is to be appreciated for my activity in
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