Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 91

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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children learn through music and game. Because
they used so many languages and they enjoyed it
and felt empowered by being part of the whole
process and getting real feedback, they turned their
brains into big language sponges, able to learn a
new song in less than a few hours and
remembering it even now, almost 6 months after
the project has ended.
eTwinning project “European Immigration”
by Murièle Dejaune
About 40 students from Cyprus, France and
Romania actively took part in this project.
Feel free to visit our TwinSpace and check our
videos, read the comments students and teachers
left there. If you are a language teacher and you
have the chance of using music in your class, do it.
But don’t stick to English only. Learn with your
students, sing with them, make mistakes with them
and let them correct you, because I can guarantee
they will be faster than you in learning a new song
and they will feel proud to help you out.
Loredana Popa has been an English teacher at
School nr. 17 in Botoșani, Romania, since 2001,
when she started getting involved in international
projects. In 2013 she became an eTwinning
ambassador but she has been integrating eTwinning
projects into her teaching routine ever since 2010.
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The link to its TwinSpace is
https://twinspace.etwinning.net/12904/home.
Our objectives were:
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To develop their written and oral
language skills
To work in teams
To confront their ideas on immigration
To enhance their ICT skills
To become active citizens
After trying to guess what their partners liked and
played quizzes to learn about their schools, these
students and their teachers Cristina Gila, Christos
Papachristodoulou and Murièle Dejaune worked
together and they shared ideas and opinions on
why people leave their countries and how we can
help them. They organized a logo contest. They
created surveys in their respective schools and
discovered and were amazed by so many different
origins of students. They collaboratively wrote to
invent short stories and poems in national and
international teams. They enjoyed very much
chatting with their partners. They compiled all the
results of their work in an emagazine.
The tools we used:
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Padlet to collaborate and introduce oneself
to gather poems;
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Quizlet and Learningapps to create quiz;
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Thinglink to present our schools;
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Tricider to discuss and give opinions;
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