Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This activity was very challenging as an icebreaking job and was useful for two reasons:
� to create an effective collaboration feeling between students split into international teams where the best-performing one won, so if they wanted to win they had to share information chatting with their foreign mates
� to familiarize students with the city, the culture and the traditions of the other students attending the partner schools.
The idea is very simple and achieving it is not difficult: teachers prepared some very simple questions for those who live in that city or country, but very difficult( and not googleable!) for everyone else. These questions were then assembled into Socrative and students needed help each other remotely using, for example, a chat like Todaysmeet. Sharing the screen in each classroom with eTwinning Live, each local team could see the race progress with the small rockets moving according to the number of correct answers that were given. Finally the teachers summed up the score of the local teams belonging to the group and proclaimed the winner group.
You can have more details on how the activity was accomplished and what results we got at the link: https:// twinspace. etwinning. net / 35367 / pages / page / 202318.
I used the same approach to the project’ s logo composition also in the project " Physical Awareness 17 " founded with my Catalan long-time partner and dear friend Floren Sales Villalta and his class from La Senìa.
Only this time, instead of using Socrative, we decided to use Kahoot for the shared activity and asked questions about Sport, Physics or Mathematics that took advantage of the different skills of students in the two classes: the Spanish class was studying more deeply the scientific subjects, while our 10 graders had better language skills and could help the team to better understand the meaning of the questions.
Unlike Socrative that is asynchronous as groups respond to questions based on their pace, Kahoot has a maximum time in which players have to respond and I have verified that this made some troubles to students who felt pressured by the time running, although we had left enough of time to answer every question in a collaborative way.
You can see results and texts at this link: https:// twinspace. etwinning. net / 38143 / pages / page / 215639.
Furthermore, having started the activities quite late, we did not have time to ask students to draw the project’ s logo, to upload all the logos on Padlet and to ask all the team to vote with Tricider.
So we thought of using a word cloud settled using Mentimeter: during the same videoconference session each student was asked to write up to three words to answer the project ' s driving question. It was very exciting to see on the shared screen the logo that was settling based on students’ choices and each of them was aware of contributing to its creation! A very democratic way to draw the logo!
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