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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------messages. That will lead to more tolerance and
dialogue through a sharing of various experiences,
opinions and perspectives. The more media literate,
the more socially competent!
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My First Exciting Learning Event: eTwinning
and Interculturality
by Nilüfer Dinc Demirok
When I first heard that an LE (a Learning Event)
was going to be held by Daniela Bunea, Cristina
Nicolaita and Adil Tuğyan, I got very, very excited,
because I have always been fond of self
improvement and this was a great opportunity to
meet teachers like me.

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Ana-Maria Ghioc is an ELT teacher at "Grigore
Moisil" National College in Bucharest, Romania. Her
interests include project-based learning, creative
writing, the integration of Web 2.0 tools in
education, project management and media literacy.

At first I was not sure if I could be one of the lucky
participants since the LE took place among all
teachers around Europe. I always consider myself
as a lucky person, and soon my luck has been
proved again. It was one of the precious moments
of my life for me when I learned that I got one of
the seats as a participant!
This was my first LE and I had not the slightest idea
about where to begin with and what to do. Above
all, the LE would last for two weeks between the
23rd of May and the 3rd of June, which was
challenging considering we were at the last weeks
of the school.
However all of my concerns disappeared when I
saw the road map Daniela posted. It was clear, well
prepared and helpful for all the participants. Step
by step we began to know each other and started
to have little tasks in our groups (leagues) as we
called them.Everybody was very helpful and open.
From the first moment, I really felt that there are
people all over Europe, giving their hearts to t he
jobs they are doing. This feeling was amazing! Plus
while working in our teams we realized how some
cultures are surprisingly similar. One of our tasks
was creating an e-book based on a folk story of our
own culture. During the task we realized that
Romanian folk stories carry nearly and surprisingly
the same elements. I chose Nasreddin Hodja and
the other character was from Romania named

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