Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The four main pillars of the seminar were: 1.
Thematic inputs about the Danube Region by
experts; 2. Thematic workshops about school
cooperation in the Danube Region; 3. Training
Workshops; 4. Networking and project partner
finding.
teaching profession in the Danube Region?
The second day of the conference took place at the
OeAD-Haus. The participants learnt about the
Danube Strategy, Erasmus+ and best practice, and
established project ideas through group work,
partner finding, defining project ideas, discussing
aims, writing applications, registering projects on
the eTwinning portal.
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The official opening and overview of the seminar
was on Bertha von Suttner Schulschiff,
Donauinselplatz – school ship. The participants
learnt about the Danube Region Strategy and
cooperation in education, the cooperation in the
Danube Region in the past and in the present.
There were the workshops, facilitated by experts,
which included contributions by teachers who are
experienced in international project work.
My eTwinning Voyage
by Helena Butterfield
I first began my eTwinning journey in 2006, after
recommendations from Joe Dale. I began
eTwinning because I wanted to engage the French
learners I had and also provide some focus for a
group of keen linguists who came to a club at
lunchtime. The first ever project I did was a
blogging project with a French school, called “Je
blogue, tu blogues… let’s blog!”
The key questions of the workshops were: Why do
we need to cooperate? What are the challenges in
cooperation? What are successful ways of quality
assurance in projects and mobilities regarding the
Danube Region? What are the challenges of the
The project involved pupils from my school and our
partner school in Bourges, creating content based
on what they had learned in class and commenting
on one another’s posts. The thing that the students
really liked was that their work finally had a real
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