Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 108

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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This was what I tried to create this year, in my
class and after that in the whole building. Flashmob
of the whole school, drawing with Idroo, sharing
Skype events, sharing cards from all over,
connecting people from different places to share
new good practices and so on.
eTwinning cultivates eTwinners' expertise
by Angela Dimitriu
It is well known that eTwinning keeps teachers and
pupils engaged and motivated during the school
year. It also promotes a high spirit of productivity,
accomplishments and team work that turn into
great experiences and unforgettable memories of
school partnerships.
The eTwinning program offers for both myself and
my students one of the most enriching teaching and
learning experience. I joined the eTwinning
teachers’ community from the very beginning, in
2013, when it was launched in the Republic of
Moldova, but for this newsletter I would like to
share some remarkable events and experiences of
the 2016-2017 school year.
Last September, I was thinking hard how to best
ignite the interest, arouse the curiosity and
motivate the first year's students, who came to
study at the College of Ecology from different
regions of our country, so that they are positively
engaged in their study process. Furthermore, I was
particularly eager to build up a strong, trustful and
friendly teacher-student relationship and also create
a unique learning atmosphere in the college that is
highly interactive, joyful and pleasant. The
eTwinning projects “RAR(R)E Responsible
Assistance Reporters aRound Europe” and “Peer
bullying in school” gave me the opportunity to
achieve my goals and to also unleash my students’
potential.
This was our experience, this was our eTwinning
project. I think that this year: Working together
was really better!
Irene Confalone is a cross curricular teacher in a
primary school in San Giovanni La Punta, a town
near Catania in Italy. She loves her job and she
loves children. She likes jogging and gardening.
She has been involved in different Comenius
projects and then she was the Italian coordinator of
several multilateral projects. She enjoys sharing
ideas with teachers from all over the world. She
loves eTwinning because she can discover, every
day, a new way of teaching.
We highly value the brilliant collaboration with
teachers and pupils from other countries, including
Belgium, Turkey, Lithuania, Greece, Romania,
Poland, Italy and Ukraine, and the extraordinary
chance for my students to learn and gain useful
experience from how to plan a project to how to
moderate it online.
I noticed that giving the students responsibilities
and tasks it fostered and cultivated their interest
and expertise. Moreover, the online interaction with
their project partners challenged their digital skills
along with the intercultural and social skills and
tested their level of English language knowledge, as
they had to create contents and hold thematic
discussions.
This borderless educational platform, which doesn't
trеat each subjеct as being wаlled off in its оwn
room, but incorporates the interdisciplinary learning
and reflects the real world, has really a great
impact on my students.
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