Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 48

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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I wrote at the beginning of this article that Google
provides many interesting tools but often students
never use them and need to be taught how to take
advantage of them.
In the project "Migrants through the Ages" my dear
colleagues Zulmira Magalhães (P), Plamena Dineva
(BG) and I thought this activity could be
synchronous: student groups were connected at the
same time to the same document by working each
in a group-specific shared folder and they learned
to how to write, to interact and to chat using
Google.Doc.
The activity has been interesting and stimulating
and has allowed better knowledge and interaction,
by achieving the extended class that eTwinners
would like to have when they make a project.
Here you have the link to the TwinSpace page:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/35367/pages/page
/216805.
We used Kahoot also for the final videoconference
of the "Migrants through the Ages" project, but this
time the students prepared the questions to ask
about what they wrote in the shared documents
and then assembled into an ebook. In this way
everyone had to read all the contributions. On this
occasion we did not play by groups but the singles
had to play the game as we ask to participate to
the quiz even to the parents who had attended to
the final reports.
Here you have the link to the TwinSpace page:
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/35367/pages/page
/247948.
I hope my experience can help and can be
stimulating for some other colleagues. I have to say
that feedback from students and parents during the
activities was great, as did the colleagues I told and
asked to do some of these activities during the
seminars I held as eTwinning ambassador. This
makes me very happy because I understand that I
am going in the right direction to stimulate and
engage more our millennials in learning activities
and pushes me to experiment with other
approaches, working with reliable, curious and
intelligent partners.
Links to the tools I mention in this article:
https://kahoot.it/#/ and https://kahoot.com
https://www.socrative.com/
https://todaysmeet.com/
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