Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 104

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Project “Be KIND”
We started our collaboration in eTwinning net with
the project “Be KIND” (“Be Keen to Involve in Noble
Deeds”). The project was aimed at promoting the
value of kindness through celebrating of
International Random Acts of Kindness Week
(February, 14-20).
Our first eTwinning project was not only rather
interesting and cognitive but also successful. It
received such awards as “Project of Month”,
“National Quality Label” and “European Quality
Label”.
At the beginning it was a little bit difficult because
we needed to study in a new learning environment.
But thanks to the active participation and
cooperation of pupils and teachers the work was
coherent and productive.
On February, 15 we started our school day with
spreading the news about International Week of
Random Acts of Kindness and the project “Be
KIND”. We distributed the hearts with “Be KIND
Messages” and attached them to a door of each
classroom. In such a way our pupils and teachers
had learnt about International Day of Random Acts
of Kindness (February, 17). They were stimulated
to pay more attention to such a feeling as kindness.
Working in the project our pupils tried to be kind
not only to one another, to friends, classmates,
parents and elder people, but also to nature. Each
day of the Week they did the kind actions. Then
they described their experience. They were creating
stories, commenting on photos of kindness,
preparing presentations and videos. We were
downloading them on the project TwinSpace for
discussion with other participants. Our pupils had
come to conclusion that it was a great pleasure to
be kind to our surrounding! And they had decided
to be always kind during entire their lives.
There is a project site. Check it out!
https://goo.gl/fKTqT1
Project “Let’s Give Peace a Chance!”
In March 2016 our Educational Complex launched
the project “Let’s Give Peace a Chance”. The project
was addressed to such a global theme as Peace and
Peacekeeping on the planet Earth.
Our pupils worked in teams with the partners and
used different methods, such as the search for
information, analyzing, comparison and problem
solving. The participants of the project shared their
ideas about Peace and considered how they could
create it together. They expressed their ideas in
essays, poems, songs, paintings, drawings, and
other activities. The project gave its participants the
understanding that the notion ‘peace’ means not
only absence of wars and conflicts between people
but also a peaceful co-existence of a man and
nature.
The participation in the project has given my pupils
the opportunity to learn in the more meaningful
way. The Web 2.0 tools were at the heart of our
communication and co-operation.
As a teacher, I fully agree with the famous Soviet
psychologist Lev Vygotsky who stated that
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