Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
computers, or Internet connections are a serious obstacle in some schools. Digital competence involves the confident and critical use of Information society technology for work, communication and leisure. Skills needed include the ability to search, collect and process information and use them in systematic way. A number of different competences are required in order to act more effectively. These ones were recognised in two eTwinning Projects we ' d like briefly to present are Mathematicomix and Our political party. Why? Because they met all the needs necessary for a well-done project. And, besides, they fit to this definition: Projects are what students remember long after the bell rings. Great teachers know that that their highest calling is to make memories.
Mathematicomicx, founded by Ms Thalia Hatzigiannoglou, was a runner-up in the category of 14 year old students in 2011, fulfilling almost all the characteristics of a perfect project: strong, wellbased planning, excellent, collaborative teams of students giving each other maths tasks in a funny way, timing perfect, evaluated and disseminated. Let me quote Cristina Nicolaita, one of the Project members:“ by means of creative and imaginative projects, it can become interesting, helpful, surprising, flexible, intriguing, and fun”. This is also what we tried to achieve with our project, Mathematicomix, which you can visit here: http:// mathematicomix. wordpress. com /
We combined comic drawings, quizzes and games with Maths and the results were amazing!- „ benefits the students’ different skills by a multiple intelligence approach and promotes a natural use of ICT.” And „ it is important that this involvement continues even after the project is concluded.” Disseminating our Maths projects activity and results helps other teachers and students to improve their Maths skills and learning styles. I must congratulate the author also for creating " Challenging students with Maths in eTwinning " teachers room, where I am proud to be a member, where I learn from and share with others my experience. I also involved my students and my eTwinning partners from Greece and Croatia in an international on-line event, MATH EXPERIENCE Symposium Bucharest, http:// www. mathexperience. ro / index. php / parteneri-ai-proiectului, a very impressive marathon videoconference. I conclude with the last event motto: „ Everything around us is Mathematics”( isn’ t it?).( Cristina Nicolaita)
Our Political Party, 2013, founded by Anna Drakotou and the author is also a splendid example
of the importance of clear planning, fantastic respond of engaged student teams from Greece and Croatia, great structured over 6 Modules. Time of our work lasted 6 months. A lot of joy exchanging, researching, playing with words etc. activities in order to finalise the main goals: learn in practice rather than in theory what democracy is, what are students ' values they agreed on. Student-centred brilliant Project that served as the sample to eTwinners to try to create their own project based on these 6 Modules. Creativity in action. Students did put all their minds together, created the political party slogan and the poster. Unforgettable time- thanks to Anna, my dear friend, who, hopefully, would create more exceptional, if not, perfect projects. We won the first prize in the competition in the significant year of citizenship. Last but not least, there won ' t pass a lot of time until eTwinning Projects would reach its perfection- up, up to the( eTwin) sky – that is my future vision on eTwinning.
Bibliography:
Camilieri, Rose Anne: Global education and intercultural awareness in eTwinning, Published online: 21 Jul 2016 http:// www. tandfonline. com / doi / full / 10.1080 / 2331 186X. 2016.1210489? scroll = top & needAccess = true
Collins, Dan: Characteristics of a good team http:// www. innovativeteambuilding. co. uk / character istics-of-a-good-team-and-team-member /
Crook Dr. Charles, LSRI & School of Education, University of Nottingham John Cummings, Manchester Metropolitan University Tony Fisher, School of Education, University of Nottingham Rebecca Graber, University of Nottingham, Prof. Colin Harrison, School of Education, University of Nottingham Dr. Cathy Lewin, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University Dr. Kit Logan, Institute of Education Prof. Rose Luckin, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education Dr. Martin Oliver, Institute of Education Prof. Mike Sharples, LSRI & School of Education,
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