Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrea: You remember well. And let’ s not forget how Jonne( FI), Mark Allan( PT) and Georg( DE) set children books free for other children to find and keep, or the Safer Internet Day activities, or … we could go on talking forever, so it’ s best to recommend a visit to our TwinSpace.:)
Betina and Andrea: This project was so full of creativity and positive vibes. We think the comment Mika, a German student, left on the project journal summarizes our thoughts and feelings best:“ Can we start another project? This was the best project for a long time! Love you all! Happy Holidays!”
Betina: Oh yes! Snowmen challenge was a big success! We began with a class snowman. Everybody came to the computer and added something but after that kids started to ask for more:“ Please, let us create one of our own!” And so it was. I shared the Google slide with them and each one created a snowman in a little computer we have in class called Magalhães. They are old and too slow, even for the kids! But it was nice because they experienced the wonders of the Google drive all at once. The first term of the school year was really intense. Do you remember the charity task? The first one was still in November, I guess! I decided to take a challenge my daughter created to help refugees living in Greece. I don’ t remember very well the whole thing but my class ran for 10 minutes and they made some posters. Our teddybear was in too, of course, because he took part in all the activities, and your students were so touched with the cause that they organized selling Christmas teddy bears to get some money for that refugee project. But both of our classes had more opportunities to be kind. I’ m thinking about the day we went to visit and socialize with some old people from our village and when you participated in a solidarity concert, right?
Betina Astride Santos is a primary school teacher at Escola Vale de Figueira- Agrupamento de Escolas de Montemor-o-Novo in Portugal and has been an eTwinner since 2009.
Andrea Ullrich is a teacher of English and Ethics / Philosophy at Gymnasium Georgianum Hildburghausen in Germany. She has been an eTwinner since 2008 and an eTwinning ambassador since 2014.
They first met in an eTwinning learning event and still love learning together. In the course of the project they used several professional development events to make“ Postcards to Georg” visible, e. g.“ Quality Label criteria: How to achieve them”,“ Collaborative Teaching and Learning”,“ Online Safety Course”,“ Make eTwinning Live 2016”,“ Thinglink Summer Challenge 2017”.
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