Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Do you understand now why we say that eTwinning
is our best treasure?
Quality Label. But the most important thing of it all
is not that I got a certificate only. The interest
towards learning a foreign language and to ICT
tools increased among the students!
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Changing the World
by Mine Gokbas
My biggest memory in my project was that the
attitude of one of my students’ parents towards
eTwinning projects. They are a religious family and
they would not normally celebrate the New Year at
their home. One of the tasks to be done in the
project was to show other countries how we
celebrate that night. The parents did not refuse the
wish of their son and celebrated this winter event
as others do all around the world. They took lots of
pictures and sent them to me to put on the
TwinSpace. It was so affective and indulgent. They
also took part in the activities.
When one of my colleagues from Europe told me
first about the eTwinning projects, I was really
excited. We started a project together and I did my
best.
It was not difficult to encourage the students to join
in the project, but about the teachers and school
administration I cannot say the same. The first
question they asked was whether there was
mobility chance to travel abroad within these
projects. When I said no, they stood back. I am
sure that happens at most of the schools all over
Europe.
Later we started the activities, prepared postcards,
organised online meetings, went on some school
excursions with the students. Some of the teachers
started to take part in the activities. The more my
group grew and it got fun, I was more interested.
We also organised competitions, prepared a big
chart at school about the activities carried out in
the project. I was rewarded with a European
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