Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 54

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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been to record themselves and share with their
peers. They have used their knowledge of English
and adaption into the project. Organization has
started on eTwinning Project Page by giving the
students their user names and passwords. They
have the chance to access to the TwinSpace by
mobiles phones and desktops.
4. British Sports- students invent, describe and
draw new sports, after that record and send a short
video of playing this sport Deadline: 18November
5. Videoclip - each partner chooses a song in
English, record a video clip, and publishes it on
TwinSpace platform Deadline: 2 December
6. Christmas cards Exchange- students prepare
self-made Christmas cards, the teacher sends the
parcel with cards Deadline: 9 December
7. A cooking programme - students prepare shorts
videos – they imitate cooking programme Deadline:
13 January
What about the tech?
The technology has been used in every aspect of
the project. To learn about Great Britain culture,
traditions, holidays, to encourage pupils to get to
know each other and making friends, to develop our
pupils’ abilities to communicate in English, to
enhance our pupils’ ICT skills, we need to use
technology and social media such as YouTube,
Padlets, PowerPoint presentations, Prezi, chatting,
videoconference and other web 2.0 tools.
Great impact at school
Successfully we have tried to disseminate the
project in school community as it has been the first
eTwinning Project in the history of my school. As a
teacher of English Language, I can say I have
created different points of views and tolerance to
others and the cultures of others in an Imam Hatip
School. Sometimes students cannot know why they
have been learning language and how they will use
it. The project has proven them we can use our
speaking skills to communicate and understand
others.
The teachers use other social media tools and
TwinSpace forum page to plan the upcoming
activities. The students get in touch via chatting
room on TwinSpace. They have become real pen
pals and exchange their Christmas cards by Post.
Activities
These are the activities of collaboration between the
partners – project calendar:
1. Hello – each school prepares a short video
presenting the s tudents and the school, the
teachers creates students accounts on twin space
Deadline: 7 October
2. Great Britain- each partner creates a poster of
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales, and
sends the pictures of the posters Deadline: 21
October
3. London – using Wikipedia each partner creates a
short Prezi or PowerPoint presentation titled “I love
London” Deadline: 04 November
The most successful result they have obtained is
that they have discovered the GB because in the
beginning of the project, they were unaware of the
countries, its cultures and even the flags within the
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