Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 100

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This year I discovered the awareness of
appreciating the organization of some online
events, being able to share with European
colleagues and co-workers my experiences. I
overcame my fears in English. I understood that I
can learn from everyone, from teachers who know
more than I and teachers just signed up on the
platform. Each of us has got something special to
share. During this school year, I worked so hard!

I participated in many projects, I followed many
training courses and I passed some really difficult
tests. Each project has developed new facets of my
professionalism. One of the projects that I preferred
is called "Paint a song."

I discovered with my students how a project can be
pleasant and funny at the same time. We
appreciated the chromatic beauty and the creativity
of the children drawings. We received beautiful
packets full of paintings that represent famous
songs in English, studied during the school year.

It was so nice to receive these pictures with the
names of the students with age, and school and
country! In this way we compared different ways of
living, different countries and different worlds. Each
picture had a new life style. We learnt to read
images, new songs, words, rhymes, and after that
we produced our designs, representing the songs in
our own way. Then we sent our designs in different
schools of Greece and Spain. We had an important
experience. In May we were invited by a private
television to talk about our relevant innovation
school and we introduced our eTwinning world. We
talked about our project "Paint a song" developed
with CLIL methodology with a native English
speaker. We produced some videos that the
audience appreciated a lot. We found out how to be
happy with the new songs, music and the colours,
and how to feel close to friends who live far from
us. We are so similar and so different at the same
time!
Tired but happy we learned by playing.

Irene Confalone is a cross-curricular teacher in a
primary school in San Giovanni La Punta, a town
near Catania, in Sicily. She loves her job and she
loves children. She was involved in a Comenius
project between 2002 and 2005 with Belgium,
France and Portugal. She has been an eTwinner
since 2012 and from then she has been involved in
several projects, groups and learning events. In
2015 she was the Italian coordinator of a
multilateral project with eight European countries.
She received the eTwinning Quality Label for her
project called "Forgotten Values". eTwinning is part
of her teaching.

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