Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 112

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ above all we learned to work together. Have you made friends with someone? Yes, we have! This year, however, each of us chose a 'PenPal' with whom we started exchanging letters, greeting cards and handmade works. We hope to meet as soon these new friends, as we have met, several times ago, Mrs. Francesca Borrelli, a teacher of the School "A. Maestri" of Parma, with whom we have collaborated in several projects. Now we ask to a student’s mom, what she thinks about studying with eTwinning projects? I believe that since the School started working on the eTwinning platform, the kids, as my daughter, come to school with a strong motivation and joy. They never feel tired and at home they talk about projects and gather in groups to find ideas and draw designs, posters, and artefacts for their project friends. I feel thanking the School for the wonderful work it is doing with our children and special thanks goes to eTwinning that allows teachers to bring Europe in the classes. Let's talk now with Sister Loredana Ursini, Headmaster of Primary School San Tarcisio: How did you know about eTwinning and when did you decide to take your school to various projects? "I met eTwinning through our ICT Coordinator, Cira Serio, to whom we are all very grateful to have been the pioneer in this new path, which aims at a real innovation of didactics. In fact, through the eTwinning projects, she helps students to reach the skills they need to train future European citizens. I have realized immediately that, this great European community of teachers, through electronic twinning among schools, in different European countries, is making a major contribution to the process of innovation in teaching and learning models and so I invited all my school teachers to participate in the various Projects and I myself took part in them. E- learning, team-work, problem solving, and learning by doing, through sharing experiences, have increased pupils' participation and led the classes to a much higher level of communication. What would you like to become this school? "Our goal is the educational success of all our students, a success that is built only by making each of them the protagonist of building their own knowledge, eager to know and experiment. Pupils really learn when they are involved in targeted activities, reflect, ask questions, identify problems, and cause others to emerge when they are placed in the state of being curious, to reflect on their thoughts and to put forward continuous questions to which they will find the answers and then 112