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. 100