Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 42

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Museum and the Multi-ethnic breakfast at school.
Dialog Museum is a dark museum in Frankfurt, built
and operated by blind people, where through
sensory experience (you sit at the bar for a drink
and talk to friends, walk the streets, in car traffic,
walk in the public gardens always staying in total
darkness, etc…) it is possible to make a real
experience of the life of a blind person, its wealth
and its difficulties. The other great experience was
multi-ethnic breakfast, a cleverly versatile activity
because teachers get three goals at once: educate
students to have breakfast, learn German and
integrate different cultures. Indeed, every morning,
intensive class students begin their lessons sitting
around a table and have breakfast with their
traditional foods, explaining to the other students,
in German, the recipes.
These two particular experiences have given me the
full awareness of what it means to truly integrate,
include, welcome and respect diversity.
So, in conclusion, I can say the most beautiful and
impassable thing in Schwanthalerschule is the
climate of serenity, hospitality and acceptance that
is breathing in every corner of the school.
Yes, from the Schwantalerschule people come out
changed. Forever.
Maria Nica has been an Italian eTwinning
ambassador since 2009. She lives in Sorrento in
southern Italy and works at the Regional School
Office for Campania. She is a professor of Italian
Literature, journalist, sociologist, pedagogist, media
educator, social worker, and master doctor in
clinical psychology. For over ten years now she has
been interested in media education and cultural
exchanges between European schools. She
published in 2010 with The Children's Movement
Foundation, the volume "Teens and Psycho-
Technologies: the new media addiction". She is the
president of the Cultural Eta Beta association which
since 1996 has been promoting cultural and musical
initiatives with numerous literary encounters with
prestigious authors of literature, poetry, cinema,
journalism and television. Since 2009 she has been
organizing the "Projects of Author: Music as a Way
of Construction" review, which promotes the
importance of the Italian Song of Author. She is a
simple but determined soul person, and she loves
life and everything that moves her heart.
eTwinning multilateral training seminar
"Innovative Learning Environments", 22-24
June 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal
1. Carmen Alexandra Miricioiu
Carmen Alexandra Miricioiu is a primary school
teacher at Colegiul Național "Constantin
Cantacuzino" in Târgovişte, Romania.
We were welcomed by warm people. They talked
about learning and social inclusion, ICT integration
and critical thinking, involving eTwinning. The
Portuguese staff organized four training workshops
and we had the right to participate in three of
them. I chose Doing, creating, collaborating ... I
learn, Redesigning classrooms for the future
through Mysteries - The journey of ideas and
Laboratory of the senses.
During the first workshop (Doing, creating,
collaborating ... I learn) we were taught to make
movies using BITEABLE. I realized that my students
could do what we had done. That’s great!
At the next one (Redesigning classrooms for the
future through Mysteries) we discovered how to do
programming without using the computer.
Wonderful! I'll easily integrate it into Maths classes.
It will have that character of novelty, the one that
children want at every moment.
The last workshop (Laboratory of the senses)
turned us into children. With tools and applications,
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