Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
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Thinking about our project, “Ancient Rome in Your
Modern Town”, I saw that it had ten tips to be good
and successful without lots of work, so I offer them
to you just in case they can be helpful.
1 Associate with someone with experience
Once you have some ideas in mind and have
decided to start an eTwinning project, the first thing
you need to do is to find some good partners and
begin the work together. Everything is easier if at
least one or two of them have some experience in
the field you want to work in.
Ready for next school year with new students!
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I was taking an eTwinning course, so I did not know
anything about starting a project, but then I found
Mutlu, from Turkey, who had an idea and was
looking for some partners. He had developed some
projects before so he was very helpful when it came
to dealing with all the possibilities of the
TwinSpace, with programmes or tools I had not
used before or simply because he was responsible
and reliable.
2 Do something you and your students like
It is very difficult to work on something we consider
dull or boring because we end up finding a “very
good reason” to give it up. It is the same for our
students. They are tired of studying subjects they
do not like. So, why not ask them about what they
love, the technology they are familiar with, or the
activities they prefer? Very often we will be
surprised at their ideas.
We organized, as an important part of the project,
excursions to visit the remains of Roman cities near
the towns we lived in or to see two theatre plays,
and some workshops such as cooking, Roman
language, models … The students really loved them.
KISS – Keep It Short and Simple
by Marta Pena
When I was asked to write something about
eTwinning that could be helpful for others, my first
reaction was: “I am not an expert, I have only got
one finished project so, what am I going to say to
other eTwinners?” But then I realised I could be a
good example to talk about the fact that a good
project can be simple and you do not need to be an
expert to start it; in fact, our project was awarded
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