Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 44

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first day, Thursday, ended also with an acivity aimed at helping the participants to know each other better. complete our activities, taking into account the fact that I supervise an Informatics Laboratory. The workshop 4 - Laboratory of the Senses, was also really interesting, but the only disadvantage of it as regards its applicability in or school would be the difficulties in getting the diagnosis kits. On Saturday, I took part in the following activities:  Presentations in plenary - Why Mobile Learning is Important in Education? (many applications that we can use in the classroom: Kahoot, Quizlet, Podomatic etc.)  Group presentations of the projects drafts proposed  Certification of the participants On Friday there took place four workshops, each participant having the possibility to choose three of them to attend to. The immediate result of this seminar is represented by the initial project with the participants in the seminar: I attended the following activities: • Workshop 3 - Redesigning classrooms for the future through Mysteries - The journey of ideas • Workshop 1 - Project Based Learning and Arduino • Workshop 4 - Laboratory of the Senses. At the end of the four workshops, which took place simultaneously, there were highlighted some exemples of eTwinning good practice. By exploring the potential offered by the projects regarding school co-operation, as well as watching presentations of examples of eTwinning good practice, all the participants had the possibility to create a complete image of what a succesful eTwinning project means. The most impressive project was presented by Ana Boléo Fernandes, and the main character was a 6-year old girl, who was in wheelchair. https://twinspace.etwinning.net/files/collabspace/5/ 85/185/40185/files/afe36156.pdf All the activities included in workshops were extremely special, as there were presented new and innovative ideas, we worked in teams and everything was dynamic. We learned much and even very much, but I was really impressed by Workshop 1 - Project Based Learning and Arduino. The approaching of this workshop and the laboratory application that we conducted together, made me willing to do my best in order to bring in the school where I work (with the help of Latcu- Voda Parents Association or other finantial sources) ,at least 5-6 Arduino boards, which will help us to do practical activities with our students,so as to Dissemination of the activities in this seminar was made at: • Facebook personal account: https://www.facebook.com/aspazia.olar and Twitter account: https://twitter.com/aspaziaolar?lang=en • the locat newspaper, before leaving: https://www.monitorulsv.ro/Local/2017-05- 10/Profesori-suceveni-invitati-la-un-seminar-in- Portugalia • the results of this seminar will be also presented during a show at the local TV station Cromtel TV Radauti, at the beginning of September For me, this was the most complex and pleasant activity, both personal, as well as professional (I have been on the platform since 2010). The interaction, meeting and finding new partners for our future projects or the ones already started, all these represent unquestionable advantages of this 44