Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I am going to retire on September 1st 2014. A
different life is waiting for me but I have already
started to feel nostalgic for what I am going to
leave: my students’ involvement in projects, the
possibility to experience new routes, the thread
running through common goals to reach with my
European partners and, above all, being part of this
big family called eTwinning.
Informatics / ICT, Music, Religion, Economics and
others.
Students and teachers involved achieved the aims
of the project by learning about the regional or
national traditional costumes as well as the customs
of other countries. They discovered the value of
clothing as a vehicle of culture, finding more about
the contribution of economic and social factors to
the clothing evolution and even imagining and
creating clothing items of the future.
Our students could also develop their skills on New
Technologies by using several web 2.0 tools (on
TwinSpace) and also using multimedia tools in
order to present pictures, PowerPoint presentations
or creating some videos.
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For each month of the project a special activity was
designed, and the results of our work were
published on TwinSpace.
One of the activities that took advantage of the
students’ creativity and knowledge of ICT tools was
the contest for designing the Logo.
58 logos entered the contest for the “Best logo” to
represent our project. The winner was a logo
designed by a student from Romania, Alina Motisan.
Culture through Fashion
by Lidia Monica Boje
B orn from the desire of developing a deeper
understanding of our European partners’ culture,
traditions, clothing items related to them and a
wider opening to Europe for our students, the
eTwinning project “Culture through Fashion” started
on December 2013 and ended on June 2014. Two
teachers from Romania and Greece met on an
eTwinning Learning Event called “Finding partners
in eTwinning”, put together the basic ideas and
initiated the project. Shortly, our project became an
eTwinning Plus one as more and more teachers,
even from the European neighborhood took part in
it: Poland, Turkey, Portugal and also Azerbaijan,
summing 11 teachers and 130 students.
It was designed for students aged 9 to 12 and it
was a multidisciplinary, cross-curricular project as it
involved knowledge from different areas, such as:
Art, Geography, History, History of Culture,
For the activities planned in January and February,
students had to do a lot of research, finding out
more about clothing in ancient times and also the
clothing evolution from 1900s until today. The little
ones drew clothing items and the others made
PowerPoint or Prezi presentations and short videos.
In March and April students, guided by their
teachers, made some research on traditional
customs and costumes of their county and also
made drawings and presentations. The Romanian
students prepared four traditional folkloric dances
for their European partners and uploaded photos
and videos with the event.
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