Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
by the implementation of this project led students to acquire an insight into profound consideration of the meaning of words and icons, into sharing opinions and discoveries to enrich one’ s own perspective by the contributions of all, into reelaborating data to give added value to individual or group works. Taking another one’ s idea, a piece of a sentence, a fragment of an image, a quote, a line … inspired, for example, the shooting of a photo from a new perspective; gathering clips made by the partners led to the editing of a new video; following the model of an already finished story gave the idea to invent an original continuation. This creative process helped students to find out how complex things can be and, how knowledge can be connected with one’ s own experience of the world.
So, to argument opinions, to justify drawings or explain a choice they made, students began by connecting knowledge( for example school disciplines like foreign language learning, art, literature and history, or poetry and cinema, school excursion and psychological counselling, this project and other projects) and finished by acquiring a positive attitude towards the idea of participating in a community with an open mentality, with readiness to listen. As a result, participants gained confidence in assuming initiatives.
Teachers chose to provide for occasions to foster student’ s protagonism either by participating in international initiatives like the European Day of Languages or the International Week of Travelling Books, or by letting them at school actively promote the project with Open Days and family meetings. The creative interpretation of the book and its themes led teachers and students to stand for and act to support common values such as tolerance, non violence and respect. Students organised and managed a civic campaign against vandalism by involving the whole school community and the city mayor, with the support of their eTwinning partners.
The four voices of Italy, Portugal, Greece and Tunisia, collaborating in eTwinning, melt into something new, not simply the assembling of one thing with another but more and beyond. At the end of the activities, in a project focused on the comprehension of the different point of views, to explore the self and the others, on the role you can play in a community and on the dialogue you can activate to prevent conflicts, students have been implicated in a collaborative story-writing activity. First they voted for the choice of the fifth voice, then they produced a new story that was going to integrate Browne’ s four voices. The result is an e- book which is at the same time a story( fictional or unreal) and, the history of real student’ s didactic and pedagogical experience. The ultimate result is witnessed by the gaining of a new attitude which overcomes the limits of real,“ this new learning experience led me to love a foreign language I underestimated once and, opened my eyes not only to French culture but also to an attentive consideration of the whole world”, concluded Maria Teresa in her essay.
This is real on https:// twinspace. etwinning. net / 24681 / home.
Photo by Marian Mosulica,“ Parco di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy”
1 + 2:3x4 = 5?
Antonietta Bianca Ferrara,“… that which seems to be separated is to be perceived as one and unique”. Project partner and FLE teacher in Italy at Istituto Comprensivo 2 °“ Vincenzo Russo”, Palma Campania.
68