Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3. A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS: the students suggest a logo to give a visual identity to the project.
4. SEASON ' S GREETINGS: in December, the students prepare some cards to send their partners. They include a literary challenge in the card: the first sentence and some clues about a favourite book of theirs; the partner who receives the card will have to find out which book it is. Then the students copy out the sentences they have received on a collaborative pad, and a catalogue of " 25 must-read books " for teenagers is created in the form of a calendar, as well as 2 games( literary challenges).
look at the other teams ' productions, and start preparing the virtual round table: they prepare some questions they ' d like to ask their partners on a pad, they agree on the assessment criteria, and share the tasks they ' ll be in charge of during the video-conference.
8. VIRTUAL ROUND TABLE WEB CONFERENCE: on May 10th, all the students present their work to their partners and answer their questions during a 2-hour web conference on eTwinning Live. They comment on a live twitter-like feed and assess their peers ' work.
9. POST-CONFERENCE: the students write a report on the highlights of the web-conference.
Finally, the students assess the project and say good-bye to their partners in forum # 4.
5. TEAM UP: the students team up in national groups of 2-4 students and they present their groups, so as to find like-minded partners who might be willing to collaborate with them in an international team( 1 team = students from 3 countries). They also interact in forum # 3 to find their team-mates. Each of the seven international teams must agree on a literary genre they ' d like to work on. The following genres are chosen: young adult fiction, action-packed novels, autobiographies, crime stories, science-fiction, fantasy, historic novels.
6. READ AND CREATE: the bulk of the project. Each team is assigned a TwinSpace page to collaborate as well as a forum thread to communicate. They are invited to discuss to choose the books or authors they ' d like to read together, and to choose the material they would like to create from the toolbox of activities. Then the teams get given a few weeks to create some multimedia material about the books they have chosen.
7. COMPOSE: the teams post all their productions on a collaborative mind-map. They have a close
Final products include:- a public TwinSpace demonstrating the whole process and the final product( including a catalogue of 25 must-read books and a collaborative mind map);- an online student conference, in the form of a Virtual Round Table, where transnational teams display their work;- an experiential, multimedia and collaborative approach to integrating literature in the EFL classroom.
Students had the chance to enhance their knowledge of language and literature, they developed their European / transnational cooperation skills, they became more independent and able to take initiatives, they became active creators of knowledge and not passive consumers.
The teachers were experienced eTwinners who become more competent each year, learning from each other and extending our cooperation to an approved KA1 Erasmus + project under the topic of the 21st century skills development.
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