Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------our partner schools in Romania and Italy and have
applied for an Erasmus+ Key Action 2 strategic
partnership grant. It is clear from the Erasmus+
guidelines that eTwinning projects will play a large
part in determining who receives the grants, as
there has to be a logical progression of the types
outlined above. Above all, eTwinning is the first
step in enabling the mobilities that we all seek, for
ourselves and our pupils.
eTwinning has enriched my teaching and the lives
of my pupils, and I cannot recommend it too highly.
Every committed teacher, whether a language
teacher, a geographer or a historian, should be
doing eTwinning projects!
online projects. A lot of them also participated in
various Professional Development Workshops and
Contact Seminars. Of course almost all of them
began to work on their own projects. That is the
reason that now we have a large base of projects
for each year’s awards.
This year Slovenian ambassadors set off working on
webinars – online seminars for beginners, or for
advanced eTwinners. On these seminars we present
our successful projects. We also explain participants
how to work on TwinSpace and where on Desktop
they can find useful information. A lot of time we
use to show our teachers how to find partners in
Europe. This is the thing we have to work more on,
and I think it is the major problem also in other
countries. Teachers do not want, or do not dare, to
start to talk or write. Some of them or maybe the
majority are afraid that they do not know other
languages very good. Ambassadors’ role is also to
arrange li