Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 85

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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fairy tale and presents our Adventures in an
engaging manner.
“EuroFolklore”, a pilot Folklore Festival in
Bucharest
by Aurelia Berușcă
The eTwinning platform offers teachers unlimited
opportunities to share their experience, as well as
for continuous professional development. It is
where we can freely share creativity, present
projects with diverse themes, meet new people,
new places, nations and traditional cultures,
different educational systems, educational activities
where our students can work together even if they
are thousands of miles away.
However, when our book reached the end, we
realized that there is no end to our story. Reading
never ends and for us, who lived the READ AND
SHARE great Adventure, new adventures will
inevitably arise shortly after. For me, the eTwinning Platform has become
"home", where I feel like a big family. I have
"grown" professionally within this family who, like
any family, has given me support, examples to
follow.
We are determined to continue travelling in the
world of books. And we will always keep in mind
that it all started with this wonderful eTwinning
project which inspired us to do miracles together
and, as Mr Banscherus, the famous German author,
commented ‘it was the perfect way to anchor the
European idea in our hearts and brains’. And this is
no small thing to do. From year to year we have created more and more
daring projects, relying on what we have learned
here. One of these is the FolkFestival Project that
was developed on the past school year. Traditions
and customs, national folklore are topics most often
encountered in eTwinning projects.
Christina Kasinti is a teacher of English at the Third
Junior High School of Corinth, Greece. She has
been an active member of the eTwinning
community since 2011. Two of the projects she has
co-founded, ‘COOKING THE FOUR SEASONS’ and
‘EUROPE’S SWEET TOOTH’, were shortlisted in 2014
and 2015 respectively.
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Europe is made up of an extremely diverse range of
cultures, religions, and ethnic groups. Each country
has its own holidays, traditions, and history.
Folklore is a representation of culture and tradition.
It reflects the moral value of a particular culture
and society. Folklore as a subject in school
education could be an effective moral education
that is devoid of any religious or spiritual sentiment.
Folk manifestations have strong messages of ethics
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