Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 76

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From March to May the pupils got involved into the reading of "The Twits". Each school was given some chapters of the book on which they had to work. They created questions, summaries, visual glossaries and quizzes to facilitate their partners' reading. All the partners gave their personal contribution in an utmost creative way. My pupils worked in jigsaw groups and created some comprehension questions, a video summary and a visual glossary with pictures and videos for each chapter. Turkish students drew wonderful pictures of the main characters, while the Greek ones made funny useful videos to explain the main words contained in their chapters. All the classes involved in the project shared their works and read the rest of the book with the help of their foreign partners' material. The last activity of the project was the creation of a collaborative audiobook. Each single student involved read and recorded a part of "The Twits". Then the teachers put everything together by using the application epubeditor. Finally a couple of web conferences were made among the partners to share their views about the project and to give the students the opportunity to meet virtually. It was an exciting experience for them and they decided on their own to continue to keep in contact with their new European friends by using means of social networks. A considerable part of the curricular timetable was devoted to the project. The activities foreseen helped the students to improve their English knowledge as for reading, writing and speaking. Students dealt with a range of texts (biography, story, survey, videos, etc.) and produced several ones. Furthermore the project helped them to develop a series of competences: - social and civic competence: the students have become more aware about their own territory and their partners' ones and they have known foreign cultures and school systems through the voice and the works of their partners; - digital competence: students have constantly used technology during the project to make research, share documents and thoughts, communicate among them. They have learned to use new applications that they will be able to transfer also in other areas; - sense of entrepreneurship and creativity: the students have engaged creatively in several 76