Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 128

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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apple pies, chatting rooms, dictionary of terms,
help to write projects or to get the label everyone”
is chasing for”, and many others. I must add , for
example, in many countries eTwinning portal or
projects are more known and given importance to
in comparison to Romania, have a look at our
Turkish partners, but not only them. There has
been done more progress in our country recently,
too, thanks to the symposiums, e papers, e books
or Facebook groups that some Romanian teachers
have been doing or writing, doing this in order to
share success.
8. ME becomes WE!
We must admit that at the beginning it was
something which made us proud, winning a prize or
getting a quality label, nobody else had them, but
soon I, WE realized that being a partner, later on a
coordinator of eTwinning projects means more than
that, it is about sharing, giving other teachers the
chance to do it, becoming eTwinners or evaluating
the relevance of eTwinning projects for the schools
involved. An alternative and new dimension of
training, personal development and citizenship,
greater chances of insertion on the labor market for
graduates, internationalization of education and
training, all reunite and group together in this
family called eTwinning!
9. A very split society united in a single eTwinning
project!
This is great! Seeing different nationalities and
religions working under the same “umbrella”! It has
been proved to me many times when weaker
students at languages did their best in making
marvelous land art! Or sometimes, not very
talkative and communicative students due to their
family environment, or hardships, parents being
abroad, working hard there, to be Facebook group
administrators, or leading their group!
10. A very modern and necessary European tool
Last, but not least, we must admit that progress in
education was and still is necessary for teachers,
schools, students, local people, media! It has been
already seen that these projects led to progress in
schools, more, in teenagers’ minds, and this is very
important, they are the new generation, we should
all try to invest more in their development, both
physically and spiritually.
These projects have really done wonders!
Carmen Sin is a teacher of English as a foreign
languages at the Alexandru Marghiloman theoretical
secondary school in Buzău, Romania. She has been
a Scientix ambassador since March 2017. She is the
project manager at the “Edu Care” non profit
organization wecare82.wordpress.com. She has
been in charge of the foreign languages department
in her school since 2011, responsible with
educational projects too, having coordinated
numerous local, national and international projects,
such as “All for us!”
http://fanef92.wixsite.com/allforus with partners
from Greece, Turkmenistan and “Almarkal” with
partners from Turkey. She is the Erasmus+
coordinator in her school.
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