Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 74

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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children was very challenging. Exploring as a
method is a great way to learn in kindergarten. Our
children took the lead in applying experiments, and
they were pretty independent in these activities.
We adapted the activities of the project into our
daily lessons, plan, and themes. Through
collaboration, teamwork, small groups and
independent work, we aimed the personal, social
and emotional development of preschoolers.
Our participation in projects wasn't an extra task; it
was a tool we used to improve our teaching skills
and developing the student's key competences.
We were exchanging experiences with our partners
through different kinds of communication,
Facebook, TwinSpace (forum, journal, materials,
pages), e-mail, eTwinning live mail etc. We made a
Facebook private group “Small Scientists“, which
we were using for different kinds of agreements and
appointments, and sharing some materials. For fast
communication we used Facebook Messenger, it
was appropriate for some administrators’
instructions and partners’ questions.
We were helping each other in accomplishing all the
project activities. We were not only working
parallel, we really worked together (we discussed
everything in our Facebook group, we chose our
logo together by voting, we tried out our partners
experiments and so on). Teachers from different
educational systems worked together on the same
aims. We shared all the work with other teachers
and pupils.
We held videoconferences, we talked to each other,
sharing rhymes, introducing ourselves and our
group mascots etc. The kids enjoyed our Skype
meetings; this was one of their favourite activities.
This project was a great idea, one that encouraged
us more to see that we were not working parallel,
but working together. In order to achieve the
project’s pedagogical objectives we used many ICT
tools (computer, laptop, photo camera, mobile
phone, projector). For the evaluation we used a
questionnaire for exchanging experiences and
results with each other. We made an evaluation for
children and colleagues.
Participation in this eTwinning project was a great
opportunity for the teachers and the students to
play with experiments. They really enjoyed it, and
told their parents about the experiments they liked
and also did them at home. The parents saw the
positive impact this project had on their children
and this is really amazing.
Edita Vuković Antolović is the headteacher of the
kindergarten “Don Ivica Čondrić” in Žepče, Bosnia
and Herzegovina. By profession she is a Professor
of Preschool Education, Bachelor of Pedagogy and
Master of Educational Sciences. Currently she is a
PhD student at the Faculty of Education at the
University of Sarajevo. She is an eTwinning
ambassador and has been active on eTwinning
since 2015. She likes the challenges and creativity
that eTwinning provides us with, so she enjoys
promoting eTwinning.
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