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

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 85