Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I created a small poster (with the message: keep
calm eT win) using the eTwinning logo and that
popular keep calm-o-matic online tool. You can see
it here: http://kpc.am/U4TOb5.
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Let us see!
eTwinning and Me
by Barbara Klaassen
I have shown very briefly some aspects of my work
yet - not too long I hope – and now I thought about
making my own list of keywords for eTwinning.
Ta-daaa, my list, the eT keywords, those twenty
terms: eTwinning, schools, Europe, EU, partners,
projects, pupils, teachers, countries, study, team
work, experience, community, people, exchange,
collaboration, research, IT&C, next generation,
future.
Of course, in the article eTwinning is eT. Translated
from French into Romanian it means “and”.
Et (eT).
Şi.
And.
I means: and I hope I can work with distinguished
colleagues, eTwinners, eT teachers.
5 years ago, when starting with the work on our
first Comenius project, I heard the first time about
eTwinning. At that time I did not know how much
this would change my work and life as at first I did
not realize how big and powerful eTwinning is. In
the beginning I saw eTwinning only as a place
where some webspace and some workspace with
some tools for a project would be provided.
Although projects as the main goal of eTiwinning
are very, very important for our pupils, I recognized
the eTwinning community as an extremely valuable
help in day-to-day school work as well.
But let us start at the beginning. For many years I
have been working as a freelancer in small primary
schools in North Rhine Westphalia / Germany. As a
certified Internet-Media-Coach, I enjoyed and still
enjoy the opportunity to join and assist pupils,
teachers and parents in an exciting journey through
the uncharted territory of the Internet and use of
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